Ocr AS Media Textual Analysis Tips

1. Textual Analysis

2. Deconstructing and analysing the video clip

3. Discussing what is seen

4. Discussing what is seen DENOTATION

5. How the director has made it mean something

6. and what it means to us

7. and what it means to us CONNOTATION

8. What it REPRESENTS

9. What it REPRESENTS With specific reference to the question!

10. What?

11. What? What is shown to us on the screen and what we hear on the soundtrack?

12. What? What we watching? What is denoted?

13. How?

14. How? How has the director done it?

15. How? How has the director done it? What techniques has the director used when presenting this part of the story to us?

16. How? He has used… • Mise en scene • Camerawork • Editing • Sound

17. How? He has used… • Mise en scene • Camerawork • Editing • Sound

18. Why?

19. Why? Why did he do this? What is he trying to get us to understand?

20. Why? Why did he do this? What is he trying to get us to understand? What are the connotations of what we see?

21. What? How? Why?

22. What? How? Why?

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