7. past questions
• Monarch of the Glen and age
• Dr Who and gender
• Hotel Babylon and ethnicity
• Primeval and gender
• Hustle and gender
• Merlin and status/class
15. how it is marked
• EAA 20 (explanation, argument, analysis)
• EG 20 (use of examples)
• T 10 (use of terminology)
16. skills
• note-taking
• understanding technical codes/knowing
media language
• relating technical codes to representation
• backing up points with examples
• keeping it readable
• writing it in the time
20. decor props/objects
lighting posture/
setting/location
gesture
mise-en-scene performance
colours choice of actor
hairstyle
placement in the frame
costume make-up
43. MES CW C.ED S
location angle shot/reverse
P
point to cover costume
D concrete urban look down on her boy/girl argue
data-
Grid
examples, evidence
Q reinforce or asbo kids
challenge stereotypes?
47. Structure
• four areas...four sections?
• constant reference to the representation
• no big intro- get on with it
• keep conclusion short
48. opening sentence
In this sequence from xxx, the technical features
combine to construct representations of yyyyyy
concluding sentence
As we have seen, the representation of
xxxx is constructed by the combination of
the technical codes in the sequence.
49. Top tips
• have a system for your notes- PDQ
• be selective from the text- richest
moments
• know your terms- media language
• make it readable on the page- highlighter,
paragraph gaps
