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: Q1 is solid , it just needs a bit more detail , terminology and reference to the text to reach the top level. Plenty to build on here.

EBI: Q2 actually starts well with good question focus but then stops. Is this a revision issue? Timing? Essay structure? Planning will certainly help with all of this but you need to know the CSPs first.

11/34 D

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).

1. Criticisms of Hollywood cinema for the lack of originality in the film industry with reliance on

    franchises or sequels. 

    Media products that imitate the style of another text, artist or time period.

2.• the way events, issues, individuals (including self-representation) and social groups

(including social identity) are represented through processes of selection and combination

• the way the media through re-presentation construct versions of reality

• the processes which lead media producers to make choices about how to represent events,

issues, individuals and social groups

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

Bricolage : construction or creation from a diverse range of available things
Pastiche:an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
Intertextuality : the relationship between texts, especially literary ones.

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.

 It is impossible to ignore the ideological positions constructed by television dramas and Capital and D83 are no exception to this. Perhaps both of these shows are deliberately constructing a range of possible readings to reflect modern social, cultural and political contexts.

b) use of media theory

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 ... 

d) examples from the TV CSPs

D83 with the East presented as so much warmer and more welcoming than the West. Martin’s mother’s birthday party early in the first episode contains genuine warmth and happiness as partygoers sing ‘99 luftballons’ in stark contrast to the cold, tense BBQ scene at General Edel’s house in the West towards the end of the episode. 

e) use of media terminology 

Western capitalist ideologies are being unconsciously reinforced through the construction of the narrative and key elements of mise-en-scene. 

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

Theorists and there theories.

Key moments from D83 and Capital.

Character names.