Mr Halsey

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

  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 clear potential with knowledge of the CSPs and the messages communicated to the audience. 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- Perfect example of bricolage. Mix of old and news texts.     Q2- Communism vs Western Capitalism. Cold War. 3) The first question demanded a response using postmodern terminology. Write a definition here of the three main terms: Bricolage: able to create new meaning from old. Pastiche: celebrating the past through a modern text. Intertextuality: the relationship between texts. 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) anal

  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? A  late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from  modernism   and is characterized by the   self-conscious   use of earlier styles and   conventions , a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a general   distrust   of theories. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? Barthes says a writer's opinions or interpretation are no more valid than anyone's elses.  3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is a form of intertextual discourse in which one text makes critical c

The Specials - Ghost Town: Blog tasks 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? This music creates reflects and engenders anxiety. 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? The subculture is Mod and Punk. 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? There were many riots going on by young people in places like London and Liverpool 4) Cultural critic Mark Fisher describes the video as ‘eerie’. What do you think is 'eerie' about the Ghost Town video? It doesn't meet the typical conventions of pop. 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? I think this video was trying to highlights the struggles of being a young pe