Doctor Who: Language and Representation Blog Tasks
Doctor WHO Language and Representation Blog Tasks 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: The slow clunky camera movement (technology in the 1960s) | hum of TARDIS (helps create science-fiction genre) Mise-en-scene: School creates personal identity for the audience. Narrative and genre: Dimensions - Time and space | enigma code: Police box / TARDIS. "It's alive!" 2) How can we apply narrative theories to this episode of Doctor Who ? Todorov's Equilibrium: It starts off relatively stable and then is disrupted when Ian and Barbara follow Susan to the junkyard, resolution - it ends with a cliff-hanger Propp's character theory: Ian is seen as a hero, being the one in charge and investigating with Barbara being the helper, Susan being the Princess. Barthes's enigma ...