TV DRAMA: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

This week's practice exam question is based on an extract from Orange Is The New Black (2011, season 1, episode 1). It is an award-winning drama.
It is based on a memoir of a woman's experiences in prison. The series received critical acclaim and many awards and nominations including 12 Emmy nominations.

In point: 32.50 "Seriously, shut it off!"

Background: Sentenced to 15 months for a crime committed 10 years earlier, Piper Chapman leaves her supportive boyfriend Larry for her new home: a women's prison. She grapples with the racial dynamics of prison life and learns some of the rules.

Extract: "I wasn't Ready" 
In point: 32.50 "Seriously, shut it off!"
Piper Chapman is on the beach with her boyfriend Larry shortly before she is taken to Lichfield Penitentiary in the prison van along with other new inmates. She travels with Marollo and Watson. 
Out point: "I wasn't ready"

Out point: "I wasn't ready."

Look at the extract as a whole first, noticing the use of contrasts:

• the contrasts between the two settings (beach and prison)
• the ways in which characters are represented (Piper before incarceration / Piper in prison; the optimistic prisoner and the cynical prisoner; the aggressive officer and the sympathetic officer) 
• how the two photographs are taken (act of love, act of domination)