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Music Video: index

  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

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). 16/34 grade:c www: good attempt to engage with ideology ebi: needs more understanding of how fictional texts are not ideological 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). -Pastiche,  Kingsman: The Secret Service is a parody (there are definitely suggestions of comedy) the poster as a whole asks to be taken seriously. In a parody, audiences would likely expect a tagline that confirms the comic nature of the film. The only text appearing here is: ‘From the director of X Men: First Class’ which would suggest the film is trying to attract an audience looking for serious, action/superhero-based entertainment. - media products – particularly fictional genres such as...

The Specials - Ghost Town: Blog tasks

  1)  Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? To link the lyrics and the video as it’s a ghost town, the video shows a sense of dominating buildings and no people  2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? Punk and ska  3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? High unemployment and a lot of riots with young people  4) Cultural critic Mark Fisher describes the video as ‘eerie’. What do you think is 'eerie' about the Ghost Town video? The low angle shots of buildings to make them seem powerful, the switch of calm and dull to fast and excited in the video shows how eerie it is, as they could do what they liked  5) Look at the final section (‘Not a dance track’). What does the writer suggest might be the meanings created in the video? Do you agree? The writer suggests the video shows urban decay and a sense of hopelessness, I somewhat agree as usually London is busy and not ...