SUMMER EXAM PREPARATION: CUFFS; MIS EN SCENE AND OTHER ELEMENTS

Mis en Scene in Cuffs

• Always use the Jenny Triangle (the biggest details first, get smaller as you go on)
• Look at how the characters present themselves, establishing shots
• Describe visual attributes of characters, settings, and props
• Look at emotion and representation of emotion

Other Elements

• Close-up shots display the emotions of Jake
• Propian Theory: Stock characters, can these be identified in Cuffs?
• Sound is used to portray a sense of terror in Cuffs, can be used elsewhere
• Cuffs has to toe the line between terror and gross violence due to it being a pre-watershed show.

05/05 - Revision

        Q1: TEE (repeat 3 times for Q1)

        

        Terminology: Identify an aspect of the scene relating to the question (e.g for camera                 work: aerial shot)

        Evidence: Describe further what you see/have identified

        Explain, Analyse, Argue: Go into depth as to what the evidence could mean/portray

        Cuffs: Police Procedural

        Avengers: Crime Drama