To do well:
- start your response with a short paragraph that is a solid basis, an overview of how you understand the place, people, issues
- use a cohesive, holistic approach - you could analyse both the scenes featuring the reception boys together
- write in an analytical not descriptive way
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]
Tackle your analysis in the order of the scenes
The Queen's Gambit (Season 1, Episode 2 Exchanges Netflix 2020) Beth Harmon is adopted from an Orphanage by a middle-class childless couple. Suddenly plunged into a confusing new life in suburbia, teenage Beth studies her classmates and hatches a plan to enter a chess tournament.
inpoint 33.27 "You're home late"- Alma (mother) ..."I was out walking" - Beth
Outpoint :"Beltik's the state champion" Townes.
"Which is which?" Beth.
"Sh!" Townes.
