Antonia's Alevel Media Coursework Blog

  Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on  Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of  Deutschland 83  in the reviews. Negative:   it had shed half its starting audience, with only 1.72m viewers. Not quite “the flop of the year”, as Bild called it, but underwhelming nonetheless. Positive: It's a perfect moment in a near-perfect series. 2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest the Germans didn't like the show? By focusing the story around Martin Rauch, a young East German border guard going undercover in the west, it doesn’t just make the viewer empathise with a Stasi agent on a human level , instead it makes us engage with the socialist regime’s worldview, in which a military exercise in West Germany poses a potentially existential threat. 3) Find three 'below the line' comments fro...

  Task 1: Mail Online review of Capital 1) Re-read the  Mail Online review of  Capital . Why does it suggest that  Capital  features a left-wing ideology? Because "The hardest worker on the street was an illegal immigrant, determined to pay her way and not touch a penny of benefits. She was deported, though she did find time to teach English to some of her fellow saints at the detention centre." implying that they are trying to make the most hated minorities or people in certain situations seem like heroes just trying to to do their best and the white characters (excluding the old lady) shown as the 'bad people' therefore showing their left wing ideology. 2) Choose  three  quotes from the review that are particularly critical of  Capital  and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree with the criticisms? Why? You can be certain it wasn’t the plot that attracted the BBC drama department in the first place.  But that concept went nowhere...

  Create a new blog post called ' Film Industry assessment learner response ' and complete the following tasks: 1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). EBI: Specific funding/ producer info. 2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Write down the number of marks you achieved for the three questions: _/3; _/6; _/9. If you  didn't achieve full marks  in a question, write a bullet point on what you may have missed. 3/3 6/6 5/9-  Excellent and judicious application of knowledge and understanding of the British film industry. ● Excellent, detailed and accurate use of theoretical framework. ● Judgements are detailed and critically engage with the nuanced aspects of the debate regarding the cultural industries being a ‘risky business’. ● Consistently appropriate and effective use of subject specific terminology throughout. 3) For  Question 2  on the pr...

  Read the following review and feature on   Capital : Guardian review by Sam Wollaston London Evening Standard: five things you need to know about  Capital 1) What positive points does the review pick out about  Capital ?  What criticisms are made - either of the TV drama or the original novel? the cast is good based on a novel based around real life events people will relate to set in present day 2) What references can you find in the reviews and feature to the idea Capital is a 'state-of-the-nation' drama? How does it capture modern-day London? The Drama follows multiple people who live on the same street and shows the similarities and differences of their lives and their perspective of the 2008 financial crisis. Trailer analysis Watch the trailer for  Capital : 1) How does the drama use camerawork to capture London life? The fast paced  cuts   represent the urgency in a normal day in London, thus representing british culture subtly. The montag...