Sexuality: High level answer

Regional Identity: High level answer

Representation of regional identity

Lesson objective: conduct a close analysis of a television drama in order to explain how regional identity is represented

What stereotypes of regional identity can you think of? Where do you think these stereotypes come from and why?

Watch the following extract and write a summary about how regional identity is represented

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sNf-MwxTSE

Follow the link to TubeChop

This tool will allow you to select parts of the clip and embed them on your blog, or provide a URL to the newly chopped YouTube clip

Use TubeChop to select key moments from the extract which illustrate how different representations of regional identities are constructed.

Find at least one example for each of the following

·         How camera angles are used to construct representations

·         How shot compositions are used to construct representations

·         How editing is used to construct representations

·         How non-diegetic sound is used to construct representations

·         How diegetic sound is used to construct representations

·         How mise-en-scene is used to construct representations

For each of the above, write a detailed paragraph which analysis how representations of regional identity are constructed.

Remember the AOs for this exam

AO1: Explanation, analysis and argument [20]

AO1: Terminology [10]

AO2: Examples [20]

If you have started a new blog, you can embed the clips and write the paragraphs underneath. Or, you can do this task on Word and email me the finished paragraphs, complete with the links to the clips

Representation of sexuality: Micro analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPBE6YNoP5w&list=PL0C3B4F5AA766E4BF&index=6



1. What do the camera angles tell us about the characters?
Point of View
2-shot

2.Whose pespective are we seeing this through and why?




3. Why has a dissolve been used here? Is it long or is it short? Why do you think that is? What is the effect?



4. What can you say about the camera angles used in this scene? What does it tell us about sexuality in this era?




5. What camera angles and shots are used here? Choose from the following:
Point of view
High camera angle?
Low camera angle?
Pan
Tilt
Close up

6. Why have these camera angles been used? What do they tell us about the character? What do they tell us about homosexuality (especially considering the context of the programme)




7. How does the editing and camera angles/ shots construct meaning in this sequence?

8. What do you think the purpose of the narrator is? How does it make the audience feel?

9. How does media language communicate that heterosexuality is the dominant ideology of the time? Use TubeChop to illustrate your answer

 



10. What does the composition tell us about the characters?

11. What does the mise-en-scene tell us about the characters?  Think about what happens outside and inside.

12. Using TubeChop or screen shots, find examples of how mise-en-scene constructs representations of sexuality in this extract and explain how it constructs representations.

13. What effect does the sound have on constructing representations?

14. How is heterosexuality constructed through camera angles and editing?