Answering the Question 2: Who Am I Seeing?

Get focussed!

Now that you know what you're looking for, you need to ask 'What characters am I being shown in this extract?' but it's got to be relevant to the question.

For example, in the extract from Monarch of the Glen, there's no point saying 'I'm being shown a Scottish woman' because that's nothing to do with age; it's ethinicity and gender.

You need to say to yourself: 'I'm being shown an OLD Scottish woman and a YOUNG Scottish woman,' because the focus of that question is AGE.

Or again, in the Doctor Who extract, there's no point identifying the fact that one of the main characters is black and the other is white unless you can see that one is a black WOMAN and the other is a white MAN - because in that question GENDER is the focus.

Get focussed!