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 dramas – are constructed for

entertainment and escapism

 the audience alignment with appealing, central characters demonstrates that the form is

about individual, not ideological experiences

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

Bricolage: the juxtaposing of old and new texts
Pastiche: media products that imitate the

style of another text, artist or time period.

Intertextuality: representing other texts through the product

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 historical drama / spy thriller genre inevitably constructs an

 

ideological position in their representation of contexts. Here, like Capital, it could be argued

that western capitalist ideologies are being unconsciously reinforced through the

construction of the narrative and key elements of mise-en-scene. 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.

 

b) use of media theory

 Gramscis theory of hegemony, this is unconsciously communicating to audiences the value in working hard 

c) a judgement or conclusion on the question

Suggest there are many ongoing culture wars in capital which challenge this dominant reading 

d) examples from the TV CSPs

Both capital and Deutschland construct ideological positions as Deutschland is a spy thriller and historical while capital gives an urgency and realism 

e) use of media terminology 

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

How fictional texts are not ideological 

Post modernism key words 

Csps