Expressive Arts
Media Studies
The Year 12 AS Year
An Overview of the Year 12 Course
Revision Materials
Representation Technical Words
Genre Technical Words
Audience Technical Words 1
Year 13 Independent Study
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If you missed the lesson on 30th Nov please complete the following work:
Representation:
Answer the folowing questions relating to one of the main characters from your text
- Describe the physical appearance of your character in as much detail as possible.
- What does your character sound like? what do they say? how do they speak?
- What sort of background/environment or mise en scene is used to further describe or give clues about your character?
- How do other characters within the text react to your character?
- What sort of lighting is used with the character?
- What sort of camera angles, C.U's etc. are used with the character?
- Are there any gender/age/nationality issues regarding the representation of your character?
- Is the actor/actress who plays your character well known within the genre?
If you missed the lesson on Tues Nov 21st please complete the following work:
Genre:
What genre is your text?
How can you tell? (symbols, use of imagery, mise en scene, backgrounds, locations etc)
Who is the main atctor/actress, have they been in similar genres?
History of the genre?
Write about recent texts of a similar genre
Write about older texts of a similar genre
What was the very first text of this genre.
How has this genre developed , how does your specific text develop or add to the genre? How typical is it of the genre?
