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 - 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 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:

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 working hard and contributing to the economy.

Use of media theory

Bogdan the Eastern European builder is shown sleeping at work, Quentina insists on working long days illegally because she doesn’t want to take state handouts, even Roger is portrayed in an ‘under-the-armpit’ camera shot on a packed tube train and later working on his laptop in bed. 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.

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.

Examples from the TV CSPs

In Capital, there are many elements of the

narrative and characterisation that certainly fit with the ‘woke’ leftwing perspective in the

ongoing culture wars. Sympathetic takes on immigration and asylum, the demonisation of

bankers (Roger and his boss Lothar presented as clueless in their meeting with the young

upstart Mark) and Quentina’s lawyer being played by a

Use of media terminology 

The supermarket scene in the West where Martin first sees the plentiful food, colourful fruit and policemen eating ice creams presents the West as offering a much higher standard of living than the East and therefore reinforcing the dominant capitalist ideology we see across so much of western media.

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

Deutschland 83

Capital

Postmodernism