Section 1b (25 marks)

Section 1b (25 marks)Lesson objective• To understand the expectations of the second half of question 1.• To explore both genre and audience (in relation to a set no. of theorists)

StarterGenre : Consider both your foundation and advanced portfolios. If you had to discuss and evidence your understanding of genre which would you choose and why?

Narrative : As above, but considering if you had to explore the narrative; which portfolio and why?

Homework : Give me your homework

Introduction : Genre

• The point of the question is to consider one of your projects in terms of genre.

• You need to bring in theory too; to make it seem like you had a firm media-related basis.

Exam Mark Scheme

Guidance to the Marker

To make it simple…

• I have selected roughly five theories/theorists to apply regardless of the question you receive; you just need to remember what they have to say.

If you were to do music video

• You could discuss how you dressed your actors, altered shots to include close ups of the sexual bits of girls in order to conform to Mulvey’s suggestion

• You could refer to Goodwin and suggest how your music video met the criteria and therefore could be easily identifiable as pop music genre because you followed the conventions which he suggested define the genre.

Audience

How I did apply it to my

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