2027 UPDATE GCSE COMP 2, TV CRIME DRAMA (SEC A) : TV CRIME DRAMA CODES AND CONVENTIONS WORKSHOP
This TRIPLE lesson has been designed to be taught prior to students viewing of ‘Trigger Point’ and their 10-minute extract of ‘The Sweeney’. The intention is for students to have a solid knowledge and understanding of the TV Drama genre and TV Crime Drama sub-genre, before viewing both texts. Activities and tasks carried out in this lesson directly correlate with future lessons in this unit. This lesson focuses on:
IMPORTANT! The lesson does make some reference to ‘Trigger Point’ but focuses on and exposes students to various examples to build their knowledge and understanding of the sub-genre.
-Exam breakdown
-Genre, sub-genre and hybrids
-What constitutes media language?
-The several differing TV Crime Drama sub-genres
-Mise-en-scene, iconography and direct/ indirect intertextuality
-Steve Neale’s repetition and difference theory/ application
-Stock characters, motifs and verismilitude (on location VS filming on set)
Media construction
-Stuart Hall’s Shared Conceptual Roadmap theory/ application
-Plot, narrative, linear and non-linear
-Retained learning task on all FOUR narrative theories (Barthes, Levi-Strauss, Todorov and Propp).
-Iconography, RESISTS and it’s application to an unseen trailer for ‘Trigger Point’ series one.
IMPORTANT: This includes printable resources sheets within the power point as well as embedded videos and support information/ advice in the notes sections, regarding best in-class delivery.
Support and suggested teaching delivery is also noted in the notes section alongside sources/ references).
Whilst I have embedded a variety of videos, due to blocks on school accounts/ restrictions, if they do not **work, please see the links in the notes section of each slide.
NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school is providing Media Studies GCSE as a Three- Year Course.
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