AS EXAM PRACTICE TV DRAMA: EXTRAS
PREP Analyse the opening scene of Ricky Gervais' Extras episode featuring Orlando Bloom. (Season 2, Episode 1 Orlando Bloom, 14 Sep. 2006).
Tackle your analysis in the order of the scenes, starting from the opening scene.
You don't have to analyse the whole episode! The aim is to practise your skills. Aim to write between 2 and 3 sides.
Please email the prep to me
Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.
1 Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations using the following: • Camera shots, angles, movement and composition • Editing • Sound • Mise-en-scene [50 marks] 
To answer the examination question, you will do well if you use the structure T, E, EAA (terminology, example, explain / analyse / argue). For example:
T "A two-person mid shot of Orlando Bloom and Maggie shows Orlando leaning on the jury box rail." (This names two technical codes, in this case, camerawork)
E "Mid shots let the audience see the expressions on the actors' faces; here, we see Orlando Bloom looking very smug and self-satisfied, whereas Maggie looks unimpressed as she is not smiling and trying to please, unlike the crowd of adoring autograph hunters of the previous frame who clustered around the superstar Orlando Bloom. The two-person composition draws attention to the contrasting body language of Bloom and Maggie; he is assertive and confident, intruding into her personal space, whereas she has slumped shoulders and is not trying to impress him."
E, A, A "The effect is to create comedy as Maggie does not conform to the stereotype of the female fan whilst Bloom vainly tries to impress her. She seems annoyed by his vanity and the way that the other women fawn over him. Bloom is constructed as a typical film superstar who is arrogant and over-confident, used to having the world at his feet."
A2 PLANNING: WRITING A FILM TREATMENTA film treatment is a roadmap outline of what happens in your film trailer, like a short story:
Tackle your analysis in the order of the scenes, starting from the opening scene.
You don't have to analyse the whole episode! The aim is to practise your skills. Aim to write between 2 and 3 sides.
Please email the prep to me
Answer the question below, with detailed reference to specific examples from the extract only.
1 Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations using the following:
• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene [50 marks]
T "A two-person mid shot of Orlando Bloom and Maggie shows Orlando leaning on the jury box rail." (This names two technical codes, in this case, camerawork)
E "Mid shots let the audience see the expressions on the actors' faces; here, we see Orlando Bloom looking very smug and self-satisfied, whereas Maggie looks unimpressed as she is not smiling and trying to please, unlike the crowd of adoring autograph hunters of the previous frame who clustered around the superstar Orlando Bloom. The two-person composition draws attention to the contrasting body language of Bloom and Maggie; he is assertive and confident, intruding into her personal space, whereas she has slumped shoulders and is not trying to impress him."
E, A, A "The effect is to create comedy as Maggie does not conform to the stereotype of the female fan whilst Bloom vainly tries to impress her. She seems annoyed by his vanity and the way that the other women fawn over him. Bloom is constructed as a typical film superstar who is arrogant and over-confident, used to having the world at his feet."
write in the present tense
- put names into capital letters
- write down only what the audience see and hear (no thoughts, emotions)
this stylish presentation is part of Ben Tricklebank's treatmant for his film A Young Man's Game on the Edinburgh Film Festival website.
PLANNING: LOCATION RECCE Post plus photos / screenshots / green screen ideas
- put names into capital letters
- write down only what the audience see and hear (no thoughts, emotions)
PLANNING:STORYBOARD
Use iMovie to make an initial storyboard of your trailer like this example.
or using the blank storyboard templates like this one
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