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Organise your essay around the theories. Locations (and other elements of mise-en-scene): can establish/reflect genre, representation of ideology; character’s/performers inner self, preoccupations, character. Learn theories: Notion of looking/voyeruism (Lacan and Goodwin and Mulvey) Audience looking, performers/characters directly addressing (or looking at) the audience. Other characters look at or for other characters. Choose production which is most appropriate to show off your knowledge of the theory and supported with examples from your production and researched texts (Narrative theory) Eisenstein’s Theory of montage: (Director of Battleship Potemkin) Eisenstein argues that montage, especially intellectual montage, is an alternative system to continuity editing. Putting together a number of frames that when juxtaposed relate either visually or idealogoically or are in opposition to each other is used to create meaning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory