TV: Exam question

Now we have finished the content for the TV unit, we need to practice answering an exam question on this topic.

We have done some brilliant work exploring representations, the technical construction of the episodes, political contexts, Marxism and Hegemony and postmodern ideas such as bricolage, hyperreality and historical deafness. Now we need to make sure we can apply these ideas to a 25-mark exam question.

In class, we worked on an exam question collectively before exploring one of the following additional questions in a small pair or group:

Question 1
“Realism is a vital component of television drama”. To what extent does an analysis of your television close-study products support this view? [25 marks]

Question 2
To what extent do your television close-study products reflect the responsibilities and remit of public-service broadcasting? [25 marks]

Question 3
Steve Neale suggests media products need to show “repetition and difference” in their use of genre. To what extent do your television close-study products support this view? [25 marks]

For your final piece of work for TV, choose one of the above questions and write a full essay answering it. For the actual exam, you will have 35 minutes to write a 5-paragraph answer plus introduction and conclusion. Here, you can try testing yourself against the clock or instead use all of your notes and blogposts to write an exceptional response to work from in future assessments and exams. Write this answer on your blog - or if you prefer to work on paper, scan/photograph your work and upload this to your blog.

TV unit: final homework

1) Write a 750 word answer to one of the exam questions above

2) Revise for your TV and Film assessment

Due: first lesson after Easter