Film & TV assessment learner response

1.
WWW:

• Q3 is impressive: good focus on question with an extended response showing knowledge of both CSPs. The challenge now is to reach that level consistently then build on it.

EBI:

• Q1 + Q2 are weaker: revise the terminology and CSP
• Basic errors: spelling promotion wrong even though it is in the question; saying D83 is 1960 even though the year is in the title.
• More social/cultural context required for top levels in Q3

2.

Q1 - The distinction between actors and characters is arguably breaking down as films allude to stars previous roles or reputations or deliberately plat an actor against type.

Q2 - Film festival awards include Edinburgh, Busan, New Hampshire, Palm Beach and Julien.

Q3 - There is explicit reference to recent events and social contexts (global financial crash, increased fear of terrorism, free movement of people, debates about immigration, London house price inflation).

3.

Bricolage - The juxtaposition between old and ew texts, images, ideas and narratives to create new meanings.

Pastiche - Media products that imitate a style of a different text, artist or time period presented in a positive light unlike parodies which take on a more negative side to it.

Intertextuality - References to other media texts within a media text.

4.

Film festival awards include Edinburgh, Busan, New Hampshire, Palm Beach and Julien.

Small cinema release in arthouse cinemas appropriate distribution for the film - a British social realist drama.

5.

Question - to what extent do the representations in your selected TV drama Close-Study products reflect the social and cultural context in which they were produced?

Introduction - I think that Capital did a good job at representing the social and cultural contexts of its production time whereas D83 although not accurate of the production time context, was still very successful at representing the social and cultural context of the 1980s.

First paragraph -

• Focus on Capital
• Accurate views of modern London
• Skyscrapers of London like the Gherkin is shown
• The very distinctive red London busses
• Familiar sight of the busy mornings on the tube
• The problems shown within Capital still exist in today's world

Second paragraph -

• Focus on D83
• It did not reflect and represent the production time period of 2016 but did represent the time period of when it was set in the drama (the 1980s)
• The uniforms, the setting and the props were all fairly or very accurate.
• The supermarket scene is accurate in terms of what a supermarket back then would have looked like
• The supermarket also references the pop art era of 1960s
• The documents that Martin takes pictures of the confidential files are said to be the actual copies if not extremely good fakes.

Conclusion - 

• Capital was successfully represented the production time period of the drama but D83 did not. However, D83 successfully represented the time period of 1980s in which the drama was set in.