Yr 12 OCR Media Studies

Moving Image Analysis:

TV Drama

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand how sound can be used to

represent social status in TV Drama
 MEDIA
TRIANGLE PRODUCTION
1. Where does this text come from?
Who created it? Who owns it?
TEXT 2. How is this text distributed?
1. How does the TV drama tell a 3. What is the running time?
story/narrative? Is there more 4. How is the TV drama funded? Are
than one story/narrative? MEANINGS trademarks used to protect certain
2. Does it follow a formula? products?
3. What are the characters like? 5. How was the text made? What
Are they realistic? Are they production techniques were used?
stereotypes?
4. What codes and conventions
are used?
5. How do the characters relate to
each other in terms of power,
age, gender, race and class?
What are their ideologies?

AUDIENCE
1. What do you like about this TV drama?
2. Who is the intended target audience?
3. How and why does this TV drama appeal to its audience?
4. Where can the audience view this TV drama?
5. What are the reasons that the audience would consume this TV drama?

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 Regional Identity

• Accent = Differences in
pronunciation/sounds of the same
words (Po-tay-toe vs. Po-tar-toe)

• Dialect = Differences in words used

(bear/sick/peng vs. very/good/fit)
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Analyse the representations of
social status in the episode of
Shameless.

Make your analysis notes on the

four key areas, focus on the use
of sound.

What is the
regional identity
of the main
characters?