TV assessment: Learner Response

 


1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).

WWW: Good attempt to include concepts like historical.
EBI: Closer analysis of the ideologies in D83

2) Read the whole mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question).
  • Q1: The increasingly blurred nature of film genres in the contemporary media landscape. Sequels and parodies often offer intertextual references and audience pleasures linked to recognition of other films, franchises, genres or stars.
  • Q2:  the way events, issues, individuals (including self-representation) and social groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of selection and combination
  • Q3: Representations of the Stasi include their role in detentions and murder but the alignment of the audience with Lenora and Martin counters this.

3) The first question demanded a response using postmodern terminology. Write a definition here of the three main terms:

Bricolage: Juxtaposition of old and new
Pastiche: Imitation of other/ previous texts
Intertextuality: Reference to other texts

4) Read this exemplar answer for the 25-mark question in the assessment. Select a quote from the essay for each of the following aspects from the mark scheme:

a) analysis of the products that focuses on contexts and ideological positioning

 Capital is a state-of-the-nation drama and this genre immediately gives it an urgency and realism that reflect the political and cultural contexts of its setting.

b) use of media theory

 Applying Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, this is unconsciously communicating to audiences the value in working hard, earning money and contributing to consumerism and capitalism - maintaining the status quo and reinforcing more rightwing ideology.

c) a judgement or conclusion on the question

 therefore social, cultural and political contexts are not the only aspect to this process.

d) examples from the TV CSPs

 available. In Capital, there are many elements of the narrative and characterisation that certainly fit with the ‘woke’ leftwing perspective in the ongoing culture wars.

e) use of media terminology 

 reinforces dominant hegemonic ideologies


5) Based on this assessment, write three things you need to revise before the upcoming end of Year 12 exams.

Deutschland 83
Terminologies/ theories
Capital

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