Quick Recap on things pertaining to the TV Drama 'test' we did

Just a few pointers - we did go over this in class.

What did you learn?  
QUESTIONS what did you find hard? what do you need to know? What can you do to help yourself improve?

Things to remember about technique

You have 45 mins to write

You can't watch the extract and make notes at the same time so don't - if the extract is running, watch it!

Work out in advance of the exam how you prefer to make notes - chronological? by bullet point?

You need to cover ALL the bullet points - remember that each main bullet point has 'sub' areas
SOUND - dialogue / Special effects-enhanced foley / General music track
CAMERA - movement AND framing
EDITING - continuity editing / power relations / other effects created by editing
MISE-EN-SCENE - Hair/Costume/Make-up / Props and Setting / Light and Colour / Performance (Facial Expression & Body Language)

You will soon complete your 45 mins and cover all bullets if you make one or two points on EVERY area above

Not all extracts will have equal amounts of things to say about each area

Don't spend too long on one bullet or write chronologically and MISS bullet points/whole chunks of the extract

You MUST use examples from the text

You must evaluate - remember there are various ways to do this... "There is an effective use of editing when.." or "This is effective because.." just don't mechanically repeat the same phrase

ISSUES TO ADDRESS

TIMING
How to organise your answer (chronological? by bullet?)
Listen carefully for names of characters in the extract
You may not know any context - practice on extracts you don't know anything about
Hardest areas to cover are : EDITING (so practice) and SOUND
Use terminology - REVISE IT!
LINK everything to the question - you are answering a QUESTION not just writing a textual analysis
At the end, CHECK your answer and bullet point in any ideas (with examples) you haven't covered.