Media blog 2 - Mr Halsey

Media Magazine -  A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past Media Magazine 73 has a feature exploring Deutschland 83 as a postmodern media product. Read ‘Deutschland 83 - A Postmodern Reimagining of the Past’ in MM73  (p18). You'll  find our Media Magazine archive here  - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions: 1) What were the classic media representations of the Cold War? Germany during the cold war was usually represented by the media through  placing the East and West as binary opposites through a lens of good versus evil favoring the West, however Deutschland 83 slightly subverts those stereotypes by centering the show from the perspective of a young , Stasi officer  and the contrast in the party scenes in East vs the West this therefore helps paint a picture of the struggles and lives of those living in the East at the time. 2) Why does Deutschland 83 provide a particularly good example for post...

  Deutschland 83 : case study blog tasks Work through the following tasks to build a detailed case study for  Deutschland 83 . This will give you plenty of background information to use in an exam question. Remember, for this CSP the question could be on any of the key concepts: language, industries, audiences or representations. Introduction: Reviews and features Read the following reviews and features on  Deutschland 83 : The Guardian - Your next box set: Deutschland 83 The Guardian - Deutschland 83 Pity the Germans don't like it 1) Find one positive aspect and one criticism of  Deutschland 83  in the reviews.  Positive aspect - it was the most watched foreign language drama in UK history  Negative aspect -   by the time the last episode was shown in Germany last December, it had shed half its starting audience, with only 1.72m viewers.  2) Why does the second Guardian article suggest the Germans didn't like the show? They believe it d...

Task 1: Mail Online review of Capital 1) Re-read the  Mail Online review of  Capital . Why does it suggest that  Capital  features a left-wing ideology? 2) Choose  three  quotes from the review that are particularly critical of  Capital  and paste them into your blogpost. Do you agree with the criticisms? Why? 3) What scenes or characters from  Capital  could be read as promoting left-wing ideology? 4) What about the other side of the argument - are there any aspects of  Capital  that reinforce right-wing or capitalist viewpoints? Roger and his work within central London and lothar as a character and immigrant who found a way to orodper Task 2: Media  Factsheet -  Applying Marxism  Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open  Factsheet #66: Applying Marxism . Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level or  online here  (you'll need your Gr...

  1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). Grade - C Q1 - 1/3 marks make sure to use correct termonology Q2 - 3/6 specify Q3 - 7/9 need to cover cost of marketing campaign Overall - 11/18  WWW - qs 3 was top level  EBI - revise film regulation and the BBFC         - In q2 you need specific details from BBTL  2) Read  the mark scheme for this assessment carefully . Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. Q1 - revise the bbfc Q2 - premieres and film festivals Q3 - marketing campaigns 3) On a scale of 1-10 (1 = low, 10 = high), how much revision and preparation did you do for this assessment? You may also want to think here whether you had completed all the original blog tasks from last term before doing the assessment. about 4 4) Look at your answer for  Question 2 . Did you mana...