archie a level media coursework

  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...

  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 ...

  1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  Cowboys, horses, guns  2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  Came about in 2018 celebrating black cowboys  3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  Due to misrepresentation as primarily it was white cowboys  4) How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the fashion industry? Through the western accessories like cowboys hats, guns, horses  5) Read the section on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road. What does it suggest about race and the country music community? Even though it reached billboards it was taken down due to the genre racial biases and the challenges faced by black artists  6) What elements of the song and music video are suggested to be authentically country and western? The start of the video in the Wild West setting with horses, cowboy outfits and guns  7) What genres of music does the a...

  Background and cultural contexts Read  this Vox feature and podcast transcript on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road . Make sure you read the whole thing - including the podcast transcript - then answer the following questions:  1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre?  If it’s country music or hip hop  2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? Lil nas x came from a poor background and it didn’t have billy ray Cyrus originally  3) What is the Yeehaw agenda? Celebrating black cowboy culture  4) How did the story become a debate about race in America? As hip hop was mainly black and country mainly white music  5) How does Charlie Harding sum up the whole thing in the final part of the podcast transcript? That’s it’s not a country culture song but a internet generation  Now  read this Salon feature on Lil Nas X and LGBTQ+ identity . Answer the following questions: 1)...

  1)   Introduction to TV Drama 2)  Capital: CSP case study and analysis 3)  Capital: Marxism and Hegemony 4)  Film industry assessment LR 5)  Deutschland 83: CSP case study and analysis 6)  Postmodernism and Deutschland 83 7)  TV: Industry contexts

  Independent: British viewers can't get enough of foreign-language dramas 1) What does the article suggest regarding the traditional audience for foreign-language subtitled media? subtitles are a welcome enforcement for us to focus. "When you read subtitles, you have to be glued to the screen 2) What does Walter Iuzzolino suggest is the key appeal of his 'Walter Presents' shows? Fiction has an important role admits luzzolino  3) The article makes an interesting claim for the popularity of subtitles in the multi-screen age. What does it suggest? we're frequently distracted from our TV viewing by Twitter feeds and a pinging WhatsApp, subtitles are a welcome enforcement for us to focus 4) What are the other audiences pleasures of foreign TV drama suggested by the article? Another pleasure is surveillance learning about the country and also its past  Film School Rejects: The foreign TV dramas you're missing out on 1) What does the article tell us about Deutschland...