TV: Assessment

Now we have finished the content for the TV unit, we would normally be doing an assessment in-class in exam conditions.

Instead, we're going to set the assessment as 'open book' - which means there is no time restriction and you can use any resources you wish. The only thing you cannot do is plagiarise work from another student or online source. Any quotes copied and pasted must be in speech marks with the source in brackets afterwards (e.g. The Guardian).

Before lockdown, we did 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:

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 assessment 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 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.

TV unit: final assessment

1) Write a minimum 750 word answer to one of the exam questions above. Make sure the question that you choose is included in your assessment so it is clear which one you have chosen.

Due: next Monday