Media blog 2- Mr Bush Julia

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: Good knowledge of the CSP's with effective examples. LR: A better group of postmodern concepts needed.  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). Q1:  - Criticisms of Hollywood cinema for the lack of originality in the film industry with reliance on   franchises or sequels. Even a film such as Kingsman: The Secret Service has been developed   from a comic and makes many intertextual references to the long-running and hugely   successful James Bond: 007 film franchise. - A range of different genres are suggested on the poster – e.g. the background is almost  space (sci-fi); the silver symbol in the background alludes to comic books/Marvel universe;  the woman on the left suggests martial arts

  Media Magazine Theory Drop - Postmodernism 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? If modernism is beginning to question authority, then postmodernism is making fun of authority to its face. Postmodernism takes this concept of questioning traditional structures, representations and expectations and pushes things a step further. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay 'The Death of the Author'? In 'The Death of the Author', Roland Barthes  challenged tradition when he said  that a writer’s opinions, intentions or  interpretation of their own work are  no more valid than anyone else’s.  Readers are  free to interpret a work however they  choose, irrespective of what the creator  thinks. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text. It points to the process of its own creation.  4) What is the repeated phrase on the cartoon on postmoder

Background and historical contexts 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? 2 Tone had emerged stylistically from the Mod and Punk subcultures and its musical roots and the people in it, audiences and bands, were both black and white. Ska and the related Jamaican Rocksteady were its musical foundations, sharpened further by punk attitude and anger. 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? It was this anger that Dammers articulated in “Ghost Town”, galvanised both what he had seen on tour around the UK in 1981 and what was happening in the band, which was riven by internal tensions. England