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Yr 12 OCR Media Studies

Moving Image Analysis:


TV Drama

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the Media Triangle.


2. To be able to analyse the representations of age in
TV Drama.
MEDIA
TRIANGLE PRODUCTION
1. Where does this text come from?
Who created it? Who owns it?
TEXT 2. How is this text distributed?
1. How does the TV drama tell a 3. What is the running time?
story/narrative? Is there more 4. How is the TV drama funded? Are
than one story/narrative? MEANINGS trademarks used to protect certain
2. Does it follow a formula? products?
3. What are the characters like? 5. How was the text made? What
Are they realistic? Are they production techniques were used?
stereotypes?
4. What codes and conventions
are used?
5. How do the characters relate to
each other in terms of power,
age, gender, race and class?
What are their ideologies?

AUDIENCE
1. What do you like about this TV drama?
2. Who is the intended target audience?
3. How and why does this TV drama appeal to its audience?
4. Where can the audience view this TV drama?
5. What are the reasons that the audience would consume this TV drama?

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Audience Appeal
Blumler and Katz:

Who is the intended target audience?


1. Entertainment
2. Personal Relationships
3. Personal Identity
How and why does this TV drama appeal to its
4. Information
audience?

Where can the audience view this TV drama?

What are the reasons that the audience


would consume this TV drama?
Representations of …
Area of analysis Striking moments What this connotes/signifies
POINT EVIDENCE EXPLANATION

Mise-en-scene
Setting/Props
Characters
Costumes
Lighting
Colour

Camera
Shot types
Angles

Editing
Montages
Transitions
Frequency
Covert
Overt

Sound
Music
Dialogue
Sound effects
Ambience

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