PAPER 2 Section A
2 MINUTES TO READ SECTION A
DR WHO ‘AN UNEARTHLY CHILD’ EXTRACT – 12.50 -15.28 minutes
SHOW TWICE
AFTER FIRST VIEWING MAKE ANY RELEVANT NOTES (5 minutes)
WATCH AGAIN
BEGIN TASK UPON COMPLETION OF SECOND VIEWING
Q1 – 2 marks
What is meant by semiotic analysis?
Semiotics is how we study, interpret and make meaning form signs and symbols. Many things can be a sign and allow us to infer additional meaning. When we see something we denote what it actually is, but it can also connote or suggest additional meaning.
Q2 – 8 marks
THE EXTRACT RUNS FROM 12.50-15.28 minutes
How is the genre of “An Unearthly Child” shown in this extract?
- The genre of Science-Fiction is displayed in a number of ways in the extract.
- As the group transition from the dark gloom of the scrap yard, they are confronted with an entirely new and completely unrecognisable and, to the teachers, incomprehensible scenario.
- We become more aware of the droning electronic non-diagetic noise that lends an unsettling eeriness to the scene.
- The scene has opened up into the incredible TARDIS- The claustrophobic, dark, cluttered scrap yard has morphed into the gleaming, bright modernity of what appears to be some kind of command centre.
- The size of the room is now completely disproportionate to what could realistically be expected.
- The walls appear to be made of a highly unusual, recessed, circular material of some kind; completely at odds with traditional early 1960s home design.
- The plants seem of an extraordinary design.
- There appears to…
