Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.
1 Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations using the following:
• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene [50 marks]
Today we put into practice the exam board's advice to start the exam response with a clear outline of how we understand the representations as a whole.
- we make links across the whole extract
- we avoid description and aim for analysis
- we tackle all aspects of media language in each scene (not one by one for the whole extract)
- we may refer to theorists if relevant and helpful, such as Stuart Hall
Next lesson we cover aspects of other theorists:
- Stuart Hall - reception theory - how different audiences 'receive' or read texts differently
- Roland Barthes - denotation and connotation The Rhetoric of the Image
- Levi-Strauss - binary oppositions
- Vladimir Propp - narrative structures
- Tzvetan Todorov - equilibrium > disequilibrium > restored but different equilibrium
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