Shreyam's Media Coursework Blog 2 - Mr Halsey

1)   Music Video: Introduction - factsheet questions 2)   Music Video: Old Town Road CSP 3)  Music Video: Postcolonial theory 4)   Music Video: Ghost Town CSP 5)   Music Video: Postmodernism and music video

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 - In both questions you start well but then stop. The most useful thing we can take from this is to work out why this is happening and develop strategies to write more in future EBI - Revise postmodern terminology. Work out what is holding you back in the 25 mark essay: Revision? Planning? Question focus? Knowledge of CSPs/contexts? 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). A range of different genres are suggested on the poster – e.g. the background is almost space (sci-fi) The postmodern visual aesthetic which draws on pastiche, use of exaggerated popular culture references and stylized mise en scene, may undermine the claims to realism and ideological reading. 3) The first question demanded a r

1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? Postmodernism is a cultural movement that distrusts all established philosophies and frequently experiments with the medium it is presented in 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? A writer’s opinions, intentions or interpretation of their own work are no more valid than anyone else’s. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text. 4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmodernism on page 28? Postmodernism is a cultural movement that distrusts all established philosophies and frequently experiments with the medium it is in 5) How does postmodernism link to media representations and reality? As media audiences have become more sophisticated over the years, we realise on some level or other that the images we see are mediated to give us only a partial version of t

Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? Starting with a Hammond organ’s six ascending notes before a mournful flute solo, it paints a bleak aural and lyrical landscape. Written in E♭, more attuned to “mood music”, with nods to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition, it reflects and engenders anxiety. 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? Mod & Punk 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? England was hit by recession and away from rural Skinhead nights,  riots  were breaking out across its urban areas. Deprived, forgotten, run down and angry, these were places where young people, black and white, erupted. In these neglected parts of London, Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool the young, the unemployed,

Read  this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda  and answer the following questions: 1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the Western genre?  Cowboy hats , cow prints, rhinestones, and fringed suede jackets. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  In September 2018, the trend of black pop-culture figures wearing cowboy garb was dubbed the “ Yeehaw Agenda ” by  Bri Malandro , a Texas-based pop-culture archivist. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  The imagery associated with Americana has been o verwhelmingly white , so much so that the  Studio Museum in Harlem even held a “ Black Cowboy ” exhibition  two years ago, featuring photographic works from Kahlil Joseph, Deanna Lawson, and Chandra McCormick that aimed to bring the black cowboy to the forefront of western history . The impact that African American men and women have had on cowboy culture is not well known. During the Civil War, Texas