Note taking practice
- 1. Note Taking Practice - Homework If your exam text is Audio Visual then you will be shown the clip 3 times with a ten minute gap in between the 2nd and 3rd viewing specifically for making notes before you start the exam. This is a skill that can be practiced! The exam will ask you to analyse the clip based on certain codes, Although some of these codes overlap with each other and you should get into the habit of making as many notes as possible. The Task: 1. Make headings of the codes you are looking out for. 2. Watch the trailer twice. But do NOT make notes. 3. Watch the trailer two more times – making notes. 4. Continue making notes for TEN minutes. Use a stopwatch on a phone or some other kind of timer. 5. Watch the trailer another two times making notes on anything you have left out. The Trailers: Choose a variety of different genres when you select trailers to analyse. Remember to make notes on everything you see – if you begin to get stuck putting ideas into categories then start to simply write down whatever you can: • A list of things that happen • Lines of dialogue • Places or things that you remember Generic Codes Mise-en-scene Plot Actors/Directors Characters Iconography Music Narrative Codes Character Types (Propp) Camera (Audience positioning) Enigma/Action codes (Barthes) Themes & Binary Oppositions Structure (Todorov) Plot Technical & Audio Codes Camera (Framing & Shot type) Editing (Montage, Graphic match etc.) Lighting Special FX Diegetic Sound (Dialogue & Sound FX) Non-Diegetic Sound (Music & Voice Over) REMEMBER. During the note taking period: Ideally you should run out of time, NOT run out of things to write!