Year 12 - TV DRAMA EXAM

 

G322:

Key Media Concepts (TV Drama)

January 2013

This paper covers the two areas of Textual Analysis and Representation alongside Institutions and Audiences.

Miss Crompton: In Section A, candidates answer questions on an unseen moving image extract from the category of TV Drama that is then linked to some aspect of the representation within the sequence.

Mr Howard: In Section B, candidates study the videogames industry. (Click the link for Mr Howard's Blog.)

This unit is externally examined.

Editing - Alternatives to the continuity system

Behind the cut:
Examples of
Long Take
Jump-Cut
Associative Editing or “Montage”
Hollywood-style Montage

Editing - Alternative transitions

See below the cut for the following alternative transitions:
Superimposition
Fade -in

Editing - Parallel editing

Parallel editing is a technique used to portray multiple lines of action, occurring in different places, simultaneously. In most but not all cases of this technique, these lines of action are occurring at the same time. These different sequences of events are shown simultaneously because there is usually some type of connection between them. This connection is either understood by the audience throughout the sequence, or will be revealed later on in the movie. The first clip is from No Country For Old Men directed by the Coen Brothers, and the second is from Batman: The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan.

Further explanation and videoclips behind the cut

Editing - Temporal Relationships

Continuity editing: The Match on Action

Match on Action is an editing technique used in continuity editing that cuts two alternate views of the same action together at the same moment in the move in order to make it seem uninterrupted. This allows the same action to be seen from multiple angles without breaking its continuous nature. It fills out a scene without jeopardizing the reality of the time frame of the action.

Examples and video clips below

Editing - cut-in and cut-away

This sequence, taken from Tarantino’s Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) provide an examples of the cut-in. Cut-out or away is the reverse, bringing the viewer from a close view to a more distant one. The sequence opens with an extreme long shot of the area’s landscape, a high-angled tracking shot (probably via helicopter) –giving us a wide panoramic view of the area. A cut suddenly transports the viewer somewhere within the landscape to a medium shot of character lying on the floor in his room.

Example below

Editing - Spatial continuity: 180 Degree System

Eye-line Match

In an eye-line match, a shot of a character looking at something cuts to another shot showing exactly what the character sees. Essentially, the camera temporarily becomes the character’s eyes with this editing technique. In many cases, when the sequence cuts to the eye-line, camera movement is used to imply movement of the character’s eyes. For example, a pan from left to right would imply that the character is moving his/her eyes or head from left to right. Because the audience sees exactly what the character sees in an eye-line match, this technique is used to connect the audience with that character, seeing as we practically become that character for a moment. Each of the following sequences is from No Country For Old Men, directed by the Coen Brothers.

Examples behind the cut