TV DRAMA ANALYSIS

CREATE YOUR BLOG

1. Create your own blog using Blogger
2. Add the class blog and your group's blogs to it
3. Add the gadget 'search engine'
4. First post: your poster MY MEDIA made using Comic Life. Explain how you made it.
   
5. Second post: your film opening 'CHERIE': MAKING A FILM OPENING .Explain how you made it. Refer to seeing Delicatessen (Directed by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1991)
6. Create your own Twitter account and 'follow' my suggested links. 
7. Tweet using Twitter ( on a media related topic only, e.g. Skyfall's premiere, your views on the last film that you have seen, the iPhone 5, music/bands/gigs, new technology, TV programmes.....)
8. Third post: a screen shot of your first 5 Twitter posts.
9. Add Twitter gadget to your blog.
   

FOLLOW ON TWITTER
First, we learn why the journalist Alan Rusbridger values Twitter in The Guardian newspaper here.

TWITTER

You are setting up a Twitter page and you will continue to use it this year. What for?

• To communicate instantly and effectively with the rest of your group and your class. You will share your thinking as well as attach information / hyperlinks / pictures that relate to your work.
• To receive new information quickly. It's an amazing human search engine that harnesses the crowd. You'll follow all sorts of movers and shakers. use the hashtag to follow specific threads.
• To start a conversation with strangers as well as friends. Fresh ideas when you're thinking about something.
• To create a community of people interested in what you are interested in: invite responses; follow up ideas.
• To learn from some great minds and experienced teachers in various Media fields. If something interests them, it may well be of interest to us. 'Follow' wisely.
• To invite feedback for your evaluation question. You may get a completely fresh, honest opinion. That's worth having. Potentially, you have access to millions of people.

PREP Create your Twitter account.

'Follow' institutions and individuals who will widen your understanding of media issues.

FilmEdu ‏ @filmedusites

BFI ‏ @BFI

Film4.com ‏ @Film4 

Art of the Title ‏ @ArtoftheTitle 

Mark Kermode ‏ @KermodeMovie

Film London ‏ @Film_London 

TechCrunch ‏ @TechCrunch 

Wired ‏ @wired 

Guardian news ‏ @guardiannews

Total Film ‏ @totalfilm 

Paramount PicturesUK ‏ @ParamountUK 

David Gauntlett ‏ @davidgauntlett 

Julian McDougall ‏ @JulianMcDougall 

Sight & Sound ‏ @SightSoundmag 

Edge ‏ @edgeonline 

Empire Magazine ‏ @empiremagazine 

Universal Pictures ‏ @UniversalPics 

MGMMovies ‏ @MGMMovies 

Britmovie ‏ @Britmovie 
MediaEdu@mediaedusites

G322 RESEARCH INTO BRITISH FILM

PREP due Thursday 11 September YOU WILL PRESENT THIS TO CLASS

1. Pick 3 British films that have been released in the last 18 months or so. Title (directed by.....date e.g. 2011)
2. State which websites you consulted to do your research.
3. Screenshot your films' websites, FaceBook, Twitter pages.
4. For each, write a thoughtful paragraph stating the way in which each film attracts/addresses national, international or global audiences.

CLASSWORK Today we analyse the representation of CLASS in several extracts from Chariots Of Fire ( dir. Hugh Hudson, 1981)

• What is the impact of Vangelis's music in the opening scene of training on the beach?
• How are both Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams constructed as outsiders? (Discuss Abraham's 'welcome' by the college porter; the college masters' scornful observations of the College Dash)
• How is the British Establishment constructed through the use of setting (Cambridge colleges, Kings College Chapel, the freshmen's dinner)
• What is the function of cross cutting from the College Dash to the highland games? What parallels are drawn?

TV DRAMA G322:MARK SCHEME

Your analysis of the scenes from Made In Dagenham is due in today.

Assessment will take place across 3 criteria:

• explanation/analysis/ argument (20 marks)
• use of examples (20 marks)
• use of terminology (10 marks)

A top level answer will meet the following standards:

Explanation/analysis/argument

• shows excellent understanding of the task
• excellent knowledge and understanding of the technical aspects used in the extract
• excellent discussion of the extract’s representations, clearly linked to textual analysis
• clearly relevant to set question

 Use of examples

• offers frequent textual analysis from the extract – award marks to reflect the range and appropriateness of examples

• offers a full range of examples from each technical area
• offers examples which are clearly relevant to the set question

 Use of terminology

•  use of terminology is relevant and accurate

Complex issues have been expressed clearly and fluently using a style of writing appropriate to the complex subject matter. Sentences and paragraphs, consistently relevant, have been well structured, using appropriate technical terminology. There may be few, if any, errors of spelling, punctuation and grammar.

CHERIE: BOOKENDING YOUR FOOTAGE

Additional available props this session

Next step in your film opening Cherie is an opening and closing fragment of moving image that adds context. 

• You have some freedom to create your version of the first and last clips 
• They must be very brief. 
• You are 'bookending' what we have already shot.
• Filming and editing to be completed this session!

 

IDEAS FOR OPENING SCENE

•  A girl wearing the black period hat is silhouetted against a window and turns towards the camera. She is holding something significant.
• A girl carefully pulls on (or takes off) black lace gloves
• A man writes a letter / postcard and pauses to look up
• A young couple toast themselves with wine glasses

IDEAS FOR CLOSING SCENE

• A couple are seen side by side, but something is wrong and they are clearly in dispute.
• A girl gazes at a wedding photo (over the shoulder shot) then places the photo upside down
• A man arranges a black mourning veil over a girl's head and shoulders

G321 REPRESENTATION OF GENDER

The extracts are from Made In Dagenham (dir. Nigel Cole 2010), a dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Characters in the extracts:

• Rita (young Ford machinist who becomes the machinists' spokesperson)
• Connie (older Ford machinist  who is struggling with family problems)
• Albert (Union rep)
• Monty (the shop steward)
• Mr Hopkins (Ford management)
• Lisa Hopkins (his wife)
• Mr Clarke (school teacher)

The scenes: 

1. The Union meeting with management after lunch at a Berni Inn   
2. Rita confronts Mr Clarke for beating her son
3. Lisa visits Rita to report that Mr Clarke has been dismissed

PREP: Discuss the ways in which the extracts construct representations of gender using the following:

  • Mise-en-scene 

  • Editing

  • Sound 

  • Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
In the first scene, we see ....