TV assessment learner response

 

Your learner response is as follows:

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

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: Some excellent and very well expressed writing
EBI: Need to have a fully developed answer, especially with more examples from Deutschland 83
Question 1: EBI: Explain key terms more fully

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).

Question 1: I could have explained postmodern terms like intertextuality more clearly and given a better example from the set text.
Question 2: I needed to include more examples from Deutschland 83 and explain the context more clearly.
Question 3: I could have added more theory and linked it better to both Capital and Deutschland 83.

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

Bricolage: A mix of different styles, ideas or references taken from different sources and put together in a new way.

Pastiche: A media product that copies the style or look of another text, often to celebrate it, not to make fun of it.

Intertextuality: When one media text includes references or links to another media text that the audience might recognise.

4) 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:
"Although positive representations of asylum seekers and immigration, plus the negative portrayal of the upper middle class white Yount family, suggest leftwing ideologies are being promoted, all the characters audiences are encouraged to sympathise with work hard and contribute to the economy."

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, keeping things the same and showing more rightwing ideology."

c) A judgement or conclusion on the question:
"Perhaps both of these shows are deliberately creating a range of different meanings to reflect modern social, cultural and political situations."

d) Examples from the TV CSPs:
"The supermarket scene in the West where Martin first sees the food, colourful fruit and policemen eating ice creams shows that the West has a better way of living than the East."

e) Use of media terminology:
"In the spy training montage, split screen editing and visual effects are used to show the difference between East and West."

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

1. Media theories like Gramsci and how to link them to the two TV shows

2. Important scenes from Capital and Deutschland 83 and what they mean

3. Media terms like mise en scene, editing and camera shots and how they help show ideas in the shows