Homework - Due Wednesday 6th April

Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.

Extract: Eastenders, dir. Joyce Epstein

1.Discuss the ways in which the extract contructs the representation of ethnicity using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement , composition
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise en scene (all 5 elements)

You should complete the equivalent of four written A4 sides

Don't forget to use the PEES writing system and remember to break the clip up chronologically

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Evaluation Example

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Evaluation Questions

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product present particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your product?
• How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Blue Screen Test

Homework

You need to make sure the following are completed before you can begin filming:

Preliminary - this should be published on your blog
Storyboards - scanned and uploaded on your blog
Animatic - published on your blog
Production Schedule - scanned and uploaded on your blog

What should your Preliminary Task contain?

Remember this is a continuity task involving filming and editing a character:

• opening a door
• crossing a room
• sitting down in a chair opposite another character
• exchanging a couple of lines of dialogue

This task should demonstrate:

• match on action
• shot/reverse shot
• the 180-degree rule

Exemplar Opening Sequences

Below are two example opening sequences, one a level 3 and the other a level 4. Please look at them both to give you an idea of the standard expected and what type of conventions you should be including.