Language and Representation: blog tasks
Language and contexts 1) Write a summary of the notes from our in-class analysis of the episode. You can use your own notes from the screening in class or this Google document of class notes (you'll need your GHS Google login). Camerawork and sound: A range of different futuristic sounds and sci-fi music to emphasise the mysterious atmosphere in the junkyard and the TARDIS. Mise-en-scene: Teenagers dressed like they are in the 60's. Lighting in-between the episodes contrast calm and normal feeling when in school transitions to a dark and gloomy feeling when building up to the search for Susan and when inside the Junkyard. Props - The old antiques inside the junkyard is shown and the police box representing the Tardis. 2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of Doctor Who ? Todorov's Equilibrium: The doctor becomes a villain. Propp's character theory: The Doctor is Susan's grandfather Barthes's enigma and action...