What our exam needs to involve...

The 4 main areas that i need to talk about in my exam are:

Mise-en-scene: (everything in the scene)

• Props
• Costumes
• Lighting (back, key, fill)
• Character
• Body languageSetting
• Colour
• Denotation/connotation
• Iconography
• Stereotypes (does it challenge Tessa Perkins theory?)

Camera:

• Angles
• Movements
• Framing (positioning)
• Focus

Editing:

• Transitions
• Effects
• Speed/pace
• Length of frames
• Continuity
• Shot reverse shot
• 180 Rule
• Narrative time (screen, subjective, compressed, long take, simultaneous, replay, flashforward/back, ambigious)
• Narrative theory (Todorov, Barthez, Propp, Levi Strauss, Enigma/action codes)

Sound:

• Diagetic/non diagetic sound
• Contrapunctual
• Parallel
• Bridges

The Mark scheme:

Level 1: Excellent A/B
Level 2: Profficcient C/D
Level 3: Basic E
Level 4: Minimal U