TextualAnalysis

Exam section A

Deconstructingand analysingthe video clip

Discussing what is seen

Discussing what is seenDENOTATION

How the directorhas made it

mean something

and what it means to us

and what it means to us

CONNOTATION

What itREPRESENTS

What itREPRESENTS

With specificreference to the question!

What?

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

What?What we are watching?What is denoted?

How?

How?How has the director done it?

How?How has the director done it?

What techniques has the directorused when presenting this partof the story to us?

How?

• Mise en scene• Camerawork• Editing• Sound

He will have used…

How?

• Mise en scene• Camerawork• Editing• Sound

He will have used…

Discuss

each of these!

Why?

Why?Why did he do this? What is hetrying to get us to understand?

Why?Why did he do this? What is hetrying to get us to understand?

What are the connotations of what we see?

What?How?Why?

What?How?Why?

• Remember these three words.

• Write them on your question paper toremind you to discuss eachaspect.

What?How?Why?

Discuss

each of these!