TV Drama Textual Analysis Exam

Having marked your exam practice responses on 'The Bullet Boy", here is the main feedback for everyone:

1. You must link your analysis back to the question on representation - always explain how the techniques creates / reinforces / supports the representation suggested
2. Learn your terms - some of you are not mentioning the basics (establishing shots, 180 degree rule, match on action, 2 shots, over-the shoulder and shot reverse etc) let alone the expected (score, synchronous editing, diegetic sounds, parallel editing etc)
3. You don't need to write about everything you see. You only need to make sure that the points your discuss are relevant to the question.
4. Remember, you only have 45 minutes for your written analysis.
5. The question is out of 50 marks: 20 for argument and analysis, 20 for use of examples, 10 for terminology. Quite simply, Point, Example, Explanation and Analysis (using correct terms).
6. See the post below and download the 'A' grade scripts from January's exam to show how to get a higher grade in your exam
   

Continue to prepare for this exam by watching 5 minute clips of TV Dramas, and focus on the types of representations created (see your wonderful handout on how to identify representations).

Of course, you would have had very specific, targeted feedback if you had collected your marked practice paper from school last week! But fear not, you WILL make up for it when we start our Y13 work in June.

Good luck!

See you Monday morning in the Media Suite for a 9am start to your exam.

Examples of 'Higher' grade TVD exam analysis

OCR have published some scripts from the January 2009 exam, showing the responses of candidates for the TV Drama and Representation question.

It would be useful for you to see what a 45 minute 'A' grade response has in it!

Click on the links below. This will then open up a pdf file with the candidate's script.  

Unit G322 - Exemplar Answer - Candidate B - High level response   - This one is superb!

Unit G322 - Exemplar Answer - Candidate A - High level response - Also good!

The January 2009 exam clip was from 'Monarch of the Glen'.  However, you should look at the written response to see how the candidate has written about the construction of representation of age through the 4 technical areas.

Exam Practice for TVD

Absent: PF, DW, KH - This is what we did on Wed 13th May 2009.

(Please refer to your 'Representation / TVD revision sheet for help in identifying how to analyse and write about representations - I have popped this in the post for those absent)

How is race represented in the following extract (0.00 - 5.00 only)?

Refer to the 4 technical areas in explaining the construction of the representations made.

End of TVD

This Unit is now OVER. To complete your blogs:

1. Upload your exam practice results - your assessment and my assessment of you
2. State up to 5 targets to improve your written analysis - this should be based on both your own targets, and also my recommended targets

The other half of the G322 Unit is: Audiences and Institutions - The Music Industry

Please go to:

stcmasmi.blogspot.com

TVD Exam Self Assessment

12 MS TVD Exam Assessement Pack

In your pack you will find:
1.Your notes and exam response
2.Guidance notes on 'The Chase' sequence (suggestions for the 4 areas)
3.The Mark Scheme for the paper

You should write your responses on this sheet. (Print out if on blog!)

You need to:

1.Re-read your notes and exam response

2.Read the guidance notes on the sequence, and compare these to the notes you have made.

3.Highlight anything on the guidance notes sheet that you have missed out in your own notes.
4.Read the Mark Scheme. This explains that you can get up to 50 marks (20 for Analysis; 20 for use of examples; 10 for use of terminology)
5.Looking through the Levels in the mark scheme, give yourself marks for the following:

a. Analysis = ........ / 20
b. Examples = ........... / 20
c. terminology= .............. / 10

Total: ............... / 50

Also work out which Level you think you are mostly at: Level .................


6 . Finally, explain the following (up to five points for each):

What I have done well in my response:







What I need to focus on to improve my response:








This is self assessment work to help you understand how you can improve your exam technique.
I will also mark your papers and we will compare our notes on Monday 23rd February. Please have your work ready and completed for then.
Thanks
AS

Update - Feb 2009

Well, it has been a long time since I have put anything up here. That is mainly thanks to you, 12MS, for your focused preparations and presentations over the last couple of weeks.

We are rapidly approaching the end of this unit (hurrah!), but you need to be aware of these key dates:

Monday 2nd Feb 2009 - Last presentation and revision session. Please upload all remaining deoconstructions to your blogs.

Wednesday 4th Feb 2009 - Revision and recap in lessons of all technical areas and foci for representation in TVD texts

Monday 9th Feb 2009 - End of unit exam. 30 minutes viewing extract. 45 minutes for written response. We will begin at 12.20 and finish at 13.35.
You will have AOW free to make up for the time, but please sign back in with Rose or your tutors for the afternoon register by 14.15.

Ps - Revise!

Pps - First person to see me tomorrow and say 'Skins has lost its edge' will receive a special mystery prize!

PRACTICAL PRODUCTION BLOGS

Please remember that your practical productions blogs will be submitted to the coursework examiner - you MUST keep your blog up-to-date with EVERYTHING you have done so far.

Here is what a good practical production blog looks like:

http://62thrillerproject08.blogspot.com/

If yours looks nothing like this, then it needs to!  There will be no opportunity at the end of your practical work to tidy up and catch up with your work.  The practical production work is based as much on PROCESS as it is on the final PRODUCT.  

Remember: approximately 50% of your practical mark is for your film, the other 50% for your research, planning and evaluation.

07.01.09 Lesson Update

Lesson scuppered by exams! Only a handful of you in. However, the show must go on....

Here's what you need to now do for next Monday 12th January 2009:

1. Read p.93 - 99 of the OCR book, taking notes on how Crime dramas are constructed to create meaning

2. Research and watch as many crime dramas as possible, creating an a4 factfile on the typical conventions of a crime drama. Refer to the 4 technical areas as well as typical representations (eg, gender roles, region, race and ethnicity, age, etc). Use screenshots and examples to support your findings.

3. Watch this clip of The Bill in preparation for your lesson on Monday:

(The Bill, Episode 250, Part 5, 0.00-3.52)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8bUNW-OIAUk


Any questions or issues, leave a comment. See you all next Monday.

Lesson 07.01.09

You need your OCR book for this lesson. This is what we are doing:

1. Reading section on p.93 on crime drama and its conventions. You need to take notes on specific applicable theory.

2. Deconstruction of clip below (The Bill, Episode 250, Part 5, 0.00-3.52), focusing on how representations of gender have been created through the 4 technical areas.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8bUNW-OIAUk


HL for Monday 12th January:

Full deconstruction of the clip above, explaining how representations of gender have been created through the 4 technical areas.