TV DRAMA - BLACK MIRROR

 

 

I will be screening this episode on Classroom if you prefer to watch that way.

Available on Netflix .

Clip details: Black Mirror (season 3, episode 4, ‘San Junipero’, 2016 dir. Harris) 

Clip duration: 5:00 

Start point: 00:32 

End Point: 05:32

 

Paper 2 Media Texts and Contexts For examination from 2021 

MARK SCHEME Maximum mark 50

Analyse how the extract from Black Mirror constructs meaning, including the specific representations of individuals/groups/events/ places, through the following technical elements: 

• camera shots, angles, movement and composition 

• sound 

• mise-en-scène 

• editing

You should focus on how the extract constructs meaning, which could include: 

the ways in which a sense of time and place is produced through 1980s period detail – visual and auditory; 

the establishment of enigmas (the time limit, the ‘Quagmire’; Yorkie’s reaction to the car crash on screen); 

the establishment of character (particularly Yorkie and Kelly); 

the positioning of Yorkie as the central character through camera movement; 

the use of non- diegetic sound to produce mood; 

the mixing of diegetic sound to create focus on narrative elements; 

the creation of character information through costume and mise-en-scène; 

the use of dialogue to convey or withhold information.