1. G322
TV Drama and Representation
and
Audience and Institutions: UK Film
The Key Points

2. TV Drama and Representation
• Section A of the exam.
• 30 minutes to watch clip (4 times) and
make notes.
• 45 minutes to write your response.
• Don’t bother with introductions or
conclusions: these won’t gain you any
marks.
• Consider using note-making time to ‘plan’
your answer.

3. TV Drama and Representation
• You must comment on…
– Camera
– Sound
– Mise-en-scene
– Editing
– Representation
• Failure to discuss any of these areas will reduce
your mark!
And how they link to…

4. Camera – shots, angle, movement
and composition
• Shots: establishing shot, master shot, close-up,
mid-shot, long shot, wide shot, two-shot, aerial
shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot,
and variations of these.
• Angle: high angle, low angle, canted angle.
• Movement: pan, tilt, track, dolly, crane,
steadicam, hand-held, zoom, reverse zoom.
• Composition: framing.

5. Sound
• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound;
synchronous/asynchronous sound; sound
effects; sound motif, sound bridge,
dialogue, voiceover, mode of
address/direct address, sound mixing.
• Soundtrack: score, incidental music,
themes and stings, ambient sound.

6. Mise-en-scene
• Production design: location, studio, set
design, costume and make-up, properties.
• Lighting; colour design.

7. Editing
• Cutting: shot/reverse shot, eyeline match,
graphic match, action match, jump cut.
• Other transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-
out, wipe, superimposition, long take,
short take, slow motion, post-production,
visual effects.

8. Representation
“representations of individuals,
groups, events or places…”
• Gender
• Age
• Ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Class and Status
• Physical ability/disability
• Regional identity

9. Keywords…
• All the terminology mentioned on the
previous slides are keywords.
• Other you could mention include…
– Realism – do the different techniques used
work to make the piece realistic?
– Verisimilitude – the construction of a
believable world.
– Stereotypes – how we expect people and
places to be.

10. What could you be shown?
Type of drama
• Teen dramas
• Soap operas
• Period dramas
• Hospital dramas
• Crime dramas
Examples…
• Skins, Hollyoaks.
• Eastenders, Corrie,
Emmerdale.
• Rome, Bleak House, Life
on Mars.
• Casualty, Holby City.
• The Bill, Prime Suspect,
Life on Mars, Cracker,
Morse, Frost.
• Realism?
• What are they used to represent?

11. The Mark Scheme
Level 4
Explanation/analysis/argument (16-20 marks)
• 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 (16-20 marks)
• 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 (8-10 marks)
• Use of terminology is relevant and accurate