TV assessment learner response

Create a new blog post called 'TV assessment learner response' and complete the following tasks on your coursework blog:


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: 
  • Q1 is very solid, not far from the top level. If we can match that in the 25 mark essays we will be in a good place.
EBI: 
  • Revise some elements of the CSPs.
  • Biggest factor is question focus: ideological positioning. What is the message for the audience? Try to look at both sides.
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: I should have defined the three post-modern ideas accurately. To reach level three I should have expanded on my answer and write about the knowledge and understanding of the
theoretical framework to analyse the unseen source.
Q2:  Satisfactory analysis of the products that is generally sound and engages with the
straightforward aspects of the influence of the relationship between contexts,
media products and ideological positioning.

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

Bricolage: Is a juxtaposition of old and new texts.
Pastiche: when they imitate a style.
Intertextuality:  that refers to another movie or genre.

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

‘more leftwing causes than a Jeremy Corbyn’s diary’ it could be argued that the focus on house prices and hard work actually reinforces dominant hegemonic ideologies most closely associated with right-wing capitalist values.

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

In conclusion, it is impossible to ignore the ideological positions constructed by television dramas and Capital and D83 are no exception to this. However, it could be argued that different audiences can read these fictional genres in different ways depending on their own perspectives and therefore social, cultural and political contexts are not the only aspect to this process.

d) examples from the TV CSPs

 In Deutschland 83 (D83), the historical drama / spy thriller genre inevitably constructs an ideological position in their representation of contexts. Here, like Capital, it could be argued that western capitalist ideologies are being unconsciously reinforced through the construction of the narrative and key elements of mise-en-scene.

 

e) use of media terminology 

 Similarly, in the spy training montage split-screen editing and visual effects are used to present the difference between East and West with fruit appearing on the western side and an empty space on the East.


5) Based on this assessment, write three things you need to revise before the upcoming end of Year 12 exams.
  • The historical context of D83
  • Definition of media terms
  • Structure
  • Linking the theories to the question

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