Yr 12 OCR Media Studies

Easter Support Session

Section A:
Representations (TV Drama)
Learning Objectives:
1. To revise the different representation categories in TV
Drama
2. To revise the key technical areas of analysis when
discussing representations in TV Drama
3. To revise the conventions of TV Drama genres
 LO 1: To revise the different
representation categories in TV
Drama
 Representations
• Age
• Gender
• Race
• Disability
• Regional Identity
• Social Status and class
• Sexuality
 Analysing Representations
• 1. In pairs, watch a section of TV drama
focused on one of the seven areas, and
practice note-taking from that extract.

• 2. Then ‘carousel’ around different dramas,

analysing a different representation in each or
focus your notes on the specific
representation and feedback to the class.
Representation: Related Terms
• Groups of people
• Events
• Places
• Stereotype
• Archetype
• Negative
• Positive
• Reinforced
• Challenged
• Audience
• Hegemony (is the political, economic, ideological or cultural
power exerted by a dominant group over other groups in
society)
 LO 2: To revise the key technical
areas of analysis when discussing
representations in TV Drama
 Key Technical Areas
• Camera
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene
• Editing
 Best Composite Answer
• Discuss the representations of (your
chosen category) in the extract.

• In your groups – construct a best

composite answer, each of you writing a
section of the PEEL paragraph. You
should write 4 paragraphs, one on each
technical area.
 Which representation would
you analyse in this extract?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznZueZPw0c&feature=related
LO 3: To revise the conventions
of TV Drama genres
 TV Drama Genre
Conventions

• Medical/Hospital
• Costume Drama
• Crime
• Family
• Teen
 Analysing Genre
Conventions

1. In pairs, watch the opening 10

minutes of the TV Drama and make a
list of conventions (key ingredients) for
that genre of TV Drama.

• Prepare to feedback to the class.

Genre and Representations
• How would you expect women to be
represented in a costume/period TV Drama?

• How would you expect people from an ethnic

minority to be represented in a TV Crime
Drama?

• How would you expect people from the North

of England to be represented in a Teen or
Family Drama?
Discuss the representations of
regional identity in the extract
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvBKdaY8Y3w

 At least 2 paragraphs.
 Sense of argument/explanation
 Use of terminology
 Use of textual examples
 Clear PEE structure
 TV Drama Resources
• Live on Mars
• Shameless
• Cranford
• Bleak House
• ER
• Bodies
• Spooks
• Daziel and Pascoe
• Hotel Babylon
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl