Sunday 17 May 2020

TV DRAMA: THE CROWN 'ACT OF GOD'

Section  Clickview MEDIA > EXAMS > GCSE Media 2018
(It is the 2018 AL exam, just wrongly labelled here)

Extract: The Crown (Episode 4, Act of God, directed by Julian Jarrold, 2016) available on Netflix, if you want to find out what happens next! The year is 1952 and London struggles under the toxic Great Smog, caused by two byproducts of burning coal, Sulphur Dioxide and Nitrogen Dioxide. About 12,000 people died and it eventually led to the Clean Air Act of 1956 getting passed.
Characters: Prime Minister Winston Churchill
His secretary Venetia Scott
Bobbety, Viscount Cranborne, part of the Cabinet meeting
Dickie Mountbatten (Lord Mountbatten of Burma) 
 
1 Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs meaning through the following: 
• camera shots, angles, movement and composition 
• editing 
• sound 
• mise-en-scène. [50]






No comments:

Post a Comment