TV CRIME DRAMA

Check the TV crime drama page for details of the homework.

Tuesday 7th February

Beginning to write the evaluation


Evaluation

Tuesday 10th January

Preparing for the exam.

Investigating the Media
TV Crime Drama

Opening task: set up your own TV Crime Drama page, set a range of research tasks including viewing of TV dramas, investigating the audience and the institutions.

These task could involve:

• Analysis of TV schedules on the main channels and working out what times of day and what days TV crime dramas are broadcast
• Analysis of the types of characters one might expect to find in a TV crime drama - protagonists, antagonists, think about Propp
• Analysis of crime formats: research involving watching a range of different TV crime dramas and thinking about how these dramas tell their stories - Todorov narrative theory.
• Analysis of audiences: for example, teenagers and working out how these audience find out about the TV Crime dramas they watch - focus on new technology and use of marketing through the internet, use of social networking. Thinking about Uses and Gratifications theory.

This week:

Home Learning

Watch a crime drama: focus on narrative and characters - what are the conventions of the narrative, how the crime is set up, what are the characters, how are they introduced, how is the crime solved.

Your notes on the Crime Drama you watch must be published on your new TV Crime Drama page by next Tuesday.

FRIDAY'S LESSON

P3

EDITING on film trailers/opening
Review

P4

Begin exam preparation

Homework

Watch crime drama on TV and identify codes and conventions of narrative

FIRST WEEK

Some deadline for Assignment 3

Editing

All groups are working towards completing the picture edit. The deadline for this is 20th of January.

Sound edit

To be completed using Garageband by half term.

Portfolio and Evaluation

Assembled 12 page portfolio
800 word evaluation
Completed by end of March.

Mr. Curran's Lessons

Below are the Powerpoints for Mr. Curran's Friday lessons.

Storyboards for Trailers

Practicing Production

Practicing Production II

Editing

Editing II - Audio

URGENT

Ensure that you bring in your camera equipment tomorrow to class.

We will be looking at your footage and beginning the edit - this is your chance to review your work with me and alter your plans as necessary.