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TV assessment: Learner response

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: This is a solid assessment with cleat potential to move higher. You've piched out elements of the unseen and clearly have knowledge of the CSP's. Now it's about developing your exam technique to maximise your marks. EBI: Q1 feels unfinished and also need to address the impact on the audience.. how is it postmodern and what does this communicate to audience? Q2 is all about question focus: you need to discuss ideology and what messages these programmes are communicating to their audiences. A clear introduction will help you with this. 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). 3) The first question demanded a response using postmodern terminology. Write a definition here of the three main

Music Video: The Specials - Ghost Town CSP

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? The song is composed in E-Flat in which it is more in the theme of "mood music" and how the soundtrack reflects and engenders anxiety. 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? They originally came up from Mod and Punk subcultures. 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? It reflects how England was hit with recessions and the riots that were caused by it. It also shows how young black and white people at the time were not seen as the same but the "other". 4) Cultural critic Mark Fisher describes the video as ‘eerie’. What do you think is 'eerie' about the Ghost Town video? In the music video, the way that the singers look at the camera look like they are dead and pale, there are