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  Language and Representation: blog tasks Create a new blogpost called  Doctor Who: Language and Representation blog tasks  and complete the following questions on your blog: Language and contexts 1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class or  this Google document of class notes  (you'll need your GHS Google login).  Camerawork and sound: Music - theme tune to Doctor Who. Very science-fiction - sets genre from beginning. Graphics on screen: title of show and episode. Simple text/font.  Slow, clunky camera movement (due to technology in 1960s).  Sound: hum of TARDIS (helps create science-fiction genre). Mise-en-scene: Susan - first introduced dancing and dressed as 1960s teenager (costume). Seems to be both typical teenager and alien. Costume and hair typical of 1960s. School - creates personal identity for audience.  Narrative and genre: Opening title seque...

  Introduction to TV drama: blog tasks Watch the BBC trailer for season 2 of our CSP - His Dark Materials: Now answer the following questions: 1) How does this  His Dark Materials  trailer meet the conventions of a TV drama series? It features a range of characters, multiple narratives, multiple settings, dilemma and problems, heroes and villains, plot twists, cliff hangers, sounds and dramatic narratives usually linear. 2) What genre (or genres) are suggested by this  His Dark Materials  trailer. I think its more of a science-fiction genre with more action as there's a lot going on in different episodes. 3) What kind of characters and narratives are introduced in this trailer? We are introduced to the teachers and the child and then they meet the mysterious doctor who is also the child grandfather, as he is the doctor he should be the protagonist however he is featured in the first episode as an antagonist.  4) What settings appear in the trailer? At ...