TEXTUAL ANALYSIS: NOWHERE BOY

We practise analysing the representation of age using the opening of the film Nowhere Boy (directed by Sam Taylor Wood, 2009) about the early life of the Beatle John Lennon.

In your end-of-year exam, Section A is the analysis of representation in television drama. An unseen clip will be screened four times.
You are expected to analyse and discuss the technical aspect of the language and conventions of moving image in the extract's representation of individuals, places, groups and events.

• camera shots, angles, movement, composition
• editing
• sound
• mise-en-scene

 You will be asked to discuss how these technical elements create specific representations of individuals, groups, events or places and help to articulate specific messages and values that have social significance. Particular areas of representation that may be chosen are:

•Gender

•Age

•Ethnicity

•Sexuality

•Class and status

•Physical ability/disability

We watch Nowhere Boy and analyse the visual codes (camera angles, camera movement, shot types) and sound (dialogue and soundtrack).
We use technical codes (the language of moving image).

We note the exam mark scheme for a grade A response:

• use of terminology (8-10 marks)
• use of examples (16-20 marks)
• analysis, explanation, argument (16-20 marks)

We practise from the very start formulating responses that cover these three elements in the order given above. We note just how precise  and detailed our points must be: similar to PEE in your Englsh examination technique (point, evidence, explanation).

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CREATE YOUR BLOG

Today in class you create your individual blog, add seven pages that will host your seven Evaluation questions and additional pages for the exam spec and exam modules. Then add the gadget for the search engine.

You link your blog to the class blog and to the rest of the students in the group by adding a bloglist in the sidebar entitled 2016-17.