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 - This is a solid assessment with clear potential to go higher. The challenge now is to add the depth, theory and reference to texts requited for the top levels.
• EBI - Question focus is a major aspect of Q2. You need more on genre and ideological positioning: what messages are the audiences getting from the shows? Think hegemony, capitalism, left/right wing etc.
• See exemplar essay for more
• 16/34 = c

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. The poster is an excellent example of bricolage: the juxtaposing of old and new texts, images, ideas and narratives to create new meanings.
2. genres are dynamic and change to represent the concerns of the society which produces them

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

Bricolage: genres are dynamic and change to represent the concerns of the society which produces  them

Pastiche: genres are dynamic and change to represent the concerns of the society which produces them

Intertextuality: when one media text references another media text – through genre, conventions, mise en-scene or specific cultural references.

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

• The Daily Mail heavily criticised Capital for featuring ‘more left wing 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 right-wing 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...

e) use of media terminology 

• 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.

• Media terminology
• How to plan an answer for question 2
• Timing