Textual Analysis - What is it?

Students to print out and add to their folders

The evaluation questions this post relates to are:

Who would be the audience for your media product

How did you attract/address your audience?
(relate to the applied technical aspects you have selected that will apply to your audience)

For TV Drama, which is section A of the exam, you will be expected watch a 4 minute extract of a TV Drama 4 times and then textually analyse it in terms of:

Camera Shots, Angle, Movement and Composition  

Shots: establishing shot, master shot, close-up, mid-shot, long shot, wide shot, two-shot,    aerial shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and variations of these

Angle: high angle, low angle, canted angle

Movement: pan, tilt, track, dolly, crane, steadicam, hand-held, zoom, reverse zoom
Composition: framing, rule of thirds, depth of field – deep and shallow focus, focus pulls.

Use this to help 

Editing  

o     Includes transition of image and sound – continuity and non-continuity systems.
o     Cutting: shot/reverse shot, eyeline match, graphic match, action match, jump cut, crosscutting,
     parallel editing, cutaway; insert.
o     Other transitions, dissolve, fade-in, fade-out, wipe, superimposition, long take, short take, slow     
     motion, ellipsis and expansion of time, post-production, visual effects.     

Sound

Diegetic and non-diegetic sound; synchronous/asynchronous sound; sound effects; sound motif, sound bridge, dialogue, voiceover, mode of address/direct address, sound mixing, sound perspective.  

Soundtrack: score, incidental music, themes and stings, ambient sound.

Mise-en-Scène

Production design: location, studio, set design, costume and make-up, properties. Lighting; colour design.

You will then relate these technical and visual codes to one of the following aspects of representation:

             

·            Age

·            Ethnicity

·            Sexuality

·            Class and status – including star status

·            Physical ability/disability

·            Regional identity

·           Gender

Task: Copy the information above and put into your own post called 'Textual Analysis - what is it?' Add your own definitions and images where applicable to each new media word.

This is really helpful when considering composition - something that will need to be developed from your Preliminary tasks to your OTS.