You have 1 week left to film (By next Monday/Tuesdays' Lesson).
You will need to EACH pay your £20 to get a camera - you need to book and collect from Ian the Technician in the Music Office.
If you do not meet the deadline and have footage for next week - you will not be able to use the departments cameras, lights or tripods.
You have 2 weeks to produce you Individual Edit
You have 4 weeks to produce a group rough cut
You have 5 weeks to complete your group film with sound, titles and colourisation.
This will be a final deadline out of 60 marks - you will not be allowed to resubmit.
You must show your Individual Contribution by taking a SPECIFIC role in the production, either:
Camera Operator (or this can be shared by showing on your blog which shots you filmed)
Editor - builds the film, adds Titles
Sound - foley, mix down, over dubs
Visual Effects - Motion Tracking, After Effects, Colourisation
You must now divvy this up between you and post to your blog.
Set work for this lesson - those with no footage (you have wasted half of your shoot time)
Now sit your Mock Exam so we can revise for your January Exam next week.
This is you Holiday Homework set for your TV Drama lesson.
This is a timed essay - I want your notes in also
10 min: Read & P{repare
Note taking – have your answer booklet open, ready to use.
Key Questions during the first screening:
- What are the units of drama (or sequences)?
- Who are the key REPRESENTATION characters?
- Is representation of (see question) positive, negative or sympathetic for any group?
- Is the style of verisimilitude (naturalism) used? If not, what is - and why?
At
the end of the first screening, start to make a list of the units of
drama. Don’t leave spaces for notes – you will do this in the gap
between screenings 2 and 3 – but allow a little room to add in any units
you have forgotten. During the second screening, tick off the units you
have written down and add any that you missed.
Key questions during the second screening
- Who are the key STATUS characters? Does status change? Why?
- When does the non-diegetic music start and stop? Why?
- Is the camera stable or unstable? Does it change? Why?
- Look for unusual camera shots – eg low angles, tilts, bird’s eyes?
- Are there any obvious editing sequences – eg montages, shot-reverse-shot, transitions other than cuts?
At the end of the second screening, in the five minute gap, do the following:
- Check your list of drama units and re-write them down the left hand margin of one or two blank pages in your answer book using landscape format. Leave 4 or 5 lines between each unit.
- Write Camera Editing Sound MES mise en scene
as columns across the top of each page you use.
- Check you have answers to all of the key questions for screenings 1 & 2 above.
- Write a couple of sentences describing the overall representation message.
During the third screening
- Fill in detail notes on your grid for drama units 1, 3, 5 etc.
- This will allow you to finish your notes for drama unit 1 whilst unit 2 is on etc.
During the fourth screening
- Fill in detail notes on your grid for drama units 2, 4, 6 etc.
- This will allow you to finish your notes for drama unit 2 whilst unit 3 is on etc.
Finally, scan your notes grid and key questions to make sure you know what techniques
really construct the representation of (see question) as positive,
negative, sympathetic or unsympathetic. This will be your conclusion!
Essay structure
When
you write the essay, follow the units of drama (sequences), commenting
on each of the elements (the four bullet points). You do not have to
give a separate sentence to each element: if you are writing about eg
the third unit of drama, you could write a sentence that covers two or
three elements if they are clearly linked in the way they contribute to
meaning.
Do
not write an introduction – go straight into the answer. Open your
essay with comment on the first shot we see. Usually this is an
establishing long shot – but not always.
Finish
your essay with a brief conclusion summing up whether the
representation of this group is positive or negative throughout the
extract, linking briefly to key moments of technique that make this
message come across.
1hr 10: Now watch the clip 4 times and write your response time 45 mins - the question is Gender
