1. Overview and Screening

Overall, if a question comes up in one of the A2 exams about television it will ask you to compare one of 3 pairs. To be absolutely clear: you will need to talk about both of your specific texts BUT you can choose which pair you talk about. So your choice of paired texts are:

Either Capital (Series 1, episode 1) and Deutschland 83 (Series 1, episode 1) watched with 12B (pages 6-9)
OR
Witnesses (Series 1, episode 1) and The Missing (Series 2, episode 1) watched with 12D (pages 10-13)
OR
No Offence (Series 1, episode 1) and The Killing (Series 1, episode 1) watched with 12A (pages 15-17)

These are an in-depth CSP and need to be studied with reference to all four elements of the Theoretical Framework (Language, Representation, Industries, Audience) and all relevant contexts.

YOU MUST LOOK AT PAGES 5-17 in the CSP booklet for specific details of what you need to think about when studying TV CSP’s.

I will play them in sets of pairs for each of the three blocks, BUT if you wish to study a different pair then make sure you have watched each episode and have made relevant notes on BOTH of your programmes.