G322 TV DRAMA: MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS

We practise textual analysis skills for the summer exam today, using as our text My Mother And Other Strangers (BBC1, November 2016). The focus of the exam question is regional identity. The class white board displays the mark scheme for level 4 marks.

Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract

only.

1   Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of regional identity using the following:

  • Camera shots, angles, movement and composition

  • Editing

  • Sound 

  • Mise-en-scene [50]