A-Level Media Coursework Blog 1

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

  Create a new blog post called 'Postmodernism in music video: blog tasks'. Read ‘The Theory Drop: Postmodernism’ in MM66  (p26). You'll   find our Media Magazine archive here   - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions: 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 1967 the French  literary critic Roland Barthes released  his essay The Death of the Author. In it,  he 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. To  give

  Background and historical contexts Read  this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 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. 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? Around the UK in 1981,  England was hit by recession and away from rural Skinhead nights, riots were breaking out across its urban areas. Deprived, forgotten, run down a

  Wider reading on race and Old Town Road Read  this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda  and answer the following questions:  1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  Visual cues associated with what could be classified as western—cowboy hats, cow prints, rhinestones, and fringed suede jackets. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  The Yeehaw aganeda came about in September 2018, the trend of black pop-culture figures wearing cowboy garb was dubbed the “Yeehaw Agenda” by Bri Malandro, a Texas-based pop-culture archivist. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  The reasons why  black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture' states back to during the Civil War, Texas slave owners left cattle wrangling up to the black slaves they purchased while the slave owners fought in battle. After the war ended, many slaves had become expert cowhands, and roughly 25 percent of c

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: Q2 shows some good knowledge of the CSPs so now we need to add exam techniques to push towards the higher levels. EBI: Q1 is a great lesson in question focus: you need to answer the question! Revise postmodernism and for Q2 you need to discuss ideologies: what is the message to audiences? Total = 8 Grade = E 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:  The poster is an excellent example of bricolage: the juxtaposition of old and new texts, images, ideas and narratives to create new meanings.  There are many examples of intertextuality: the main central image suggests a bridge  between James Bond and Austin Powers (bond parody) with Tower Bridge in the background  reinforcing London as a locatio