adamedia

Here’s an outline of what’s in the exam for this unit, what you will need to know etc etc. tv_drama_outline1

Here’s some guidance on how to approach TV/FIlm analysis: film-tv_analysis

TERMINOLOGY

The document above includes a list of all the technical terms that you need to know. Here is a complete list of all the terms and what they mean. YOU MUST know these: terminology

Some of my explanations come from this excellent site:  http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/ is basically a fantastic glossary of film terms with clips. If you are not clear on anything, this is a useful place to go. More help of this kind is also available at: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html and/or http://www.rssmediastudies.co.uk/main/actterm/

Here are a few additional notes on terminology that might help:  miscellaneous-film-terms

The following books/pages are referred to in the exam board’s course notes. They are all in the library:

Patricia Holland  The Television Handbook (2000)

pp 62-9, 79-84

 

Vivienne Clark et al  Key Concepts & Skills for Media Studies (2002)

Pp 18-21

 

P Rayner et al  Media Studies: The Essential Introduction (2001)

Pp 100-105

 

G. Roberts et al  Introducing Film (2001)

Pp 34-43, 65-70

Test yourself with these little tests:

http://www.rssmediastudies.co.uk/main/actquiz/ and editing_termsblank and film_term_test and test-first_steps_in_cinematography

 

WHAT IS TV DRAMA? WHAT IS REPRESENTATION?

I have drawn together some useful notes from various sources on tv drama and representation: tv_drama_notes

Here are some good general websites on TV Drama. Any extra reading you can do is always a good thing:

www.bbc.co.uk/drama/

www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/

www.channel4.com/entertainment/drama/

www.screenonline.org.uk

www.imdb.com

www.webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/criteria.htm

www.televisionheaven.co.uk

 

MATERIAL COVERED IN CLASSES

Here’s a list of some programmes covered in class. This might be useful if you have copies of the programmes: tv_dramas1 and a list of some of the timings we used: tvdramatimings. The timings for Prime Suspect are pretty complicated so there is a separate doc on them: prime_suspect-timings.

 

Prime Suspect: prime_suspect_qs and prime_suspect-writing-about-gender and creeber-on-prime-suspec and a list of useful terms for writing about gender: gender-terms-research-exercise 

20000 Streets under the Sky: 20000-streets-questions

Hawking: hawking_questions

Good Luck