Narrative Extended Response for Exam

[ShirtyBoyBoy]

Using at least four story and four production elements, compare how these have combined to create the narrative in each film you have studied this year.

Its a fairly dense question to me. Surely this wouldn't appear on the exam, right?
What would be the best way to structure a response like this?

[vivj]

What exam is this from? But yes, it's incredibly dense. Normally the exams have come to be MORE segmented (so they'd ask, for example, for 'two story/production elements' for 'one narrative'). I'd hope it wouldn't be on the exam, but I can't say for sure - I'm fairly sure it's less chunky these days.

So what I would do would go:

Story element & production element - how they created narrative #1
IN COMPARISON TO
Same story element & production element - how they created narrative #2

And so on for the next three elements. They could be fairly snappy paragraphs focused upon something in particular (a certain sequence) but it would get your point across quickly.

Hope this makes sense.

[ShirtyBoyBoy]

yeah i get ya,
would you choose story elements and production elements that tend to work WITH each other, within the same paragraph? or wouldn't it necessarily matter?

I too am fairly sure this wouldn't be on there, i got this question from "The Leading Edge - VCE Units 3 & 4 Media"

[vivj]

I don't fully understand your question, but it's a matter of style up to you really.

I would probably choose a story and production element that tended to work together - for example, camera (prod) and POV (story). I'd talk about how THEY worked together in one narrative, and then in the same paragraph compare how they were used in the OTHER narrative.

I'm going through a lot of the older media exams and they do have fairly blocky questions I'll admit.

[ShirtyBoyBoy]

yeah thats what i meant, thanks

[ShirtyBoyBoy]

I'm going through a lot of the older media exams and they do have fairly blocky questions I'll admit.

The 2011 Cover sheet for this exam says that there are 4 questions in each section, which means that there's very little chance there will be an extremely chunky question. There will be a somewhat extended response in a section where the other 3 questions are very small-markers, if you get what i mean. That's what i think anyway.