Mock exam - year 12

Game of Thrones

Yr12 Mock May15

Editing - revision

Task 1:
Discuss the following with a partner.

• What is the point of editing?
• What does it achieve?
• What effect does it have in TV drama?

Task 2:
Brainstorm all the different types of editing you can.


Task 3:
Now write what each type of editing does - and importantly - the effect of the editing.



Task 4:

Look at the editing hand-out - have you missed any areas of editing? Have you misunderstood any areas, what they do, and their effects?


Task 5:
Get into pairs - enough for seven groups.

In your pair you are going to analyse a clip for editing - looking at specific area of representation. You have 20 mins to watch the clip and produce a short presentation for the rest of the class (of no more than 5 mins).


In your presentation you should include:

• A brief introduction that rounds up what impact the editing has on the ENTIRE clip
• Screen shots of editing features you have found
• Terminology
• Explanation of the effect of those shots IN RELATION TO REPRESENTATION

Areas of representation and clips:

• Age - Skins
• Gender - Wire in the Blood
• Sexuality - Queer as Folk
• Ethnicity - Spooks
• Disability/ability - The Street
• Class and status - Shameless
• Regional identity - Our Friends

Independent revision 
Excellent website for revising editing - including clips and explanations.

Areas of representation and music videos:

• Age - Modestep (Sunlight)
• Gender - Pink (Stupid Girl)
• Sexuality - Beyoncé (1+1)
• Ethnicity - Offspring (Pretty Fly for a White Guy)
• Disability/ability - Eminem (Without Me)
• Class and status - All American Rejects (Gives You Hell)
• Regional identity - Fat Les (Vindaloo)

Sherlock - exam practise

Task 1:

• Get into 4 groups
• Each group is responsible for one area of textual analysis
• Watch the clip
• Write down every feature for your area of TA that you can see in the clip and when it is used
• Swap your paper with another group
• Annotate your new sheets with how the TA feature has been used to represent gender
• Swap your paper with another group
• Add to your peers' discussion with further ideas/different interpretations
• Swap your paper with another group
• Add any theories you've covered in class with relation to gender/representation that you could use to support the arguments on the paper
• Return the paper back to the original group

Task 2:

• Spend 10 mins preparing a short presentation on your area of TA
• Take notes and ideas from your peers' work on representation in the clip

Task 3:

• Using the notes you've made, write up an exam answer to the question: How is gender represented in the clip from Sherlock Holmes?

Examiner's report - Media Studies key concepts G322/3

Examiner's reports are really helpful as they can reveal what the examiner is looking for when marking your exam answers. Some key points from last year's examiner's report:

• Those candidates achieved well offered sustained and detailed responses.
• Responses were frequently punctuated with detailed reference to contemporary and relevant examples.
• Fully rewarded for some insightful and academic use of key media concepts
• Candidates who did not meet the highest levels often lacked detail in arguments and offered a basic response.
• Candidates struggled where they failed to manage their time.

Representation and textual analysis:

• Integration of terminology
• Variety in representations - not just focused on one type
• Fluctuation in representation - not the same all the way through the clip
• Sequenced ideas - work your way through the clip
• Balanced and integrated analysis - covering all areas of TA
• Biggest area of development in all responses is editing
• Links need to be made between areas of TA and the representation

Areas of representation:

• Gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, class and status, disability/ability, regional identity

Areas of textual analysis:

• Camera shots, angle movements, composition
• Establishing shots, master shot, close-up, mid-shot, long shot, wide shot, two-shot, aerial shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, variations.
• High angle, low angle, canted angle.
• Pan, tilt, track, dolly, crane, steadicam, hand-held, zoom, reverse zoom.
• Framing, rule of thirds, depth of field, deep and shallow focus, focus pulls.
• Editing
• Shot/reverse shot, eyeline match, graphic match, action match, jump cut, crosscutting, parallel editing, cutaway, insert.
• Dissolve, fade-in/out, wipe, superimposition, long/short take, slow motion, ellipsis, expansion of time, post-production, visual effects.
• Sound
• Score, incidental music, themes and strings, ambient sound
• Diegetic and non-diegetic sound, synchronous/asynchronous, sound effects, sound motif, sound bridge, dialogue, voiceover, mode of address/direct address, sound mixing, sound perspective.
• Mise-en-scene
• Production design, location, studio, set design, costume, make up, properties
• Lighting
• Colour design