Yr 12 OCR Media Studies

Moving Image Analysis:

TV Drama

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand how to analyse editing and camera

in TV Drama
2. To analyse the representations of social status and
gender in TV Drama
What are Editing Techniques?
“You just need to cut it up and stick it together in
little bits, and that’s it!”
– J Milburn

1. How can footage be ‘stuck together’?

2. What editing techniques can you think of?
3. Why do we analyse the use of editing
techniques?
 Editing and Representations
• Which editing technique would you use to create the
following representations (people, places and events):

• Loss of control
• Victim
• Drug Addiction
• Recollection
• Murder
• Chasing a suspect
• Discovering evidence
• Police Detective
 Camera Work
Which shot types and angles would you use to
create the following representations (people,
places, events):

• Loss of control
• Victim
• Drug Addiction
• Recollection
• Murder
• Chasing a suspect
• Discovering evidence
• Police Detective
 Representations of
Social Status and Gender

How is social status and gender represented

in the episode?

Focus on analysing the use of editing

techniques and camera work in the
construction of representations.
 CSI: NY, a crime drama
inspired by the drama
series, "CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation," is
about forensic
investigators who use
high-tech science to
follow the evidence and
solve crimes in the Big
Apple.

Season 5, Episode 2

Find out more about the

show here, on the CBS
website.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/csi_ny/