Sunday, 14 April 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Independent Study over Easter in Mentor Pairs
"As A2 students you have been given homework over the last few weeks to build up to this assessment. Some of you will have completed it (Adam - well done!), some of you will have done some, some of you will have no evidence whatsoever.
If you have been up to date with your homework you will breeze through this and not have a great deal to do over Easter - a lot of this is just 'building on' the remaining approach to the Case Studies you have studied.
If you have not been regularly completing the homework this is the time when you realise just how unprepared you are and how this will look on your Results
This will assess how effective your preparation has been as an A Level student and how ready you are to attempt the Mock Exam question - we will be sitting the Mock Exam session 1.
The outcome of this will be an indicator of who I need to target with after school support to put into place in the remaining time we have left in Module 5"
Task 1.
If you have been up to date with your homework you will breeze through this and not have a great deal to do over Easter - a lot of this is just 'building on' the remaining approach to the Case Studies you have studied.
If you have not been regularly completing the homework this is the time when you realise just how unprepared you are and how this will look on your Results
This will assess how effective your preparation has been as an A Level student and how ready you are to attempt the Mock Exam question - we will be sitting the Mock Exam session 1.
The outcome of this will be an indicator of who I need to target with after school support to put into place in the remaining time we have left in Module 5"
Task 1.
Compile your work and learning on Theoretical Approach (last lesson we studied - Plato's Cave remember - no?) with your Mentor
Apply your Theoretical Approach from the perspective of:
Dubord
Baudrillard
Foucault
to either 15 Million Merits (if you are offended by porn/sexual images then look at the 2nd option) or White Bear
How to Present:
Screen shot examples from the texts and present this as Prezi 1 - 1 slide per theorist
Task 2.
Look at your combined work on Gaga/Minaj & Wreck It Ralph over the last month from the Stylistic & Historical/Post-structural approach
In Pairs examine Gaga/Minaj & Wreck It Ralph for links to Baudrillard and Dubord
How to Present:
Screen shot, analyse & compare Prezi 2. 1 slide per theorist comparing the examples for similarities
Task 3.
Find all the intertextual references used for either 15 Million Merits or White Bear - see the post for a given starting point.
How to Present:
Create an intertextual mood board for Black Mirror
Task 4.
What would Lyotard's response be to Black Mirror & it's Dystopian Narrative?
Would he consider 15 Million Merits or White Bear to be lacking in belief in Grand Narratives - why?
How to Present:
Create an Extranormal - a video presentation by Lyotard arguing his viewpoint on Black Mirror
Task 5.
Exam content plan
Respond to each of the prompts using only images or video clips relevant to our Media Case Study Texts, Theorists, Theories etc (Society of the Spectacle geddit?)
Respond to each of the prompts using only images or video clips relevant to our Media Case Study Texts, Theorists, Theories etc (Society of the Spectacle geddit?)
This is your essay's 'list of Ingredients'...remember No Words, only Visuals.
What is Postmodern Media (after or collapsing Modernism, empty, no belief in progress o meaning)
Give examples of aspects of Postmodern Style (Jameson)
Give examples of aspects of Postmodernity Historical/Structural (Lyotard (POST-Modern)
Give examples of aspects of Postmodern Theory (Baudrillard, Dubord, Foucault)
Which 3 Theorists will you reference - and what theories
Which 2 or 3 different media forms and what approach makes them Postmodern
Compare 3 ways they are similarly and differently Postmodern
Give example of an earlier Postmodern Media Text (Intertextual references for our Case Studies?)
How we have moved on from then to your contemporary text?
How we have moved on from then to your contemporary text?
An example of a prediction for the future of Postmodern Media based on one of the Case Studies - where are we headed (Black Mirror?)
How to present:
As a blog post
Task 6.
Prepare your response to the Question using the Essay Plan and the above information
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Work set for Monday 25th March - Theoretical Approach
Hi All
Aplologies for not being there today I am at a Moderation meeting for coursework marking with the exam board.
Please split yourselves into 3 groups, one to cover each theorist
Group 1. Dubord
Group 2. Baudrillard
Group 3. Foucault
Here is the link, work you way through the resources to put together a presentation on how you can apply this to our TV case study 15 Million Merits & White Bear
Task 1.
In your teams research your Theorist
Resources click here be sure to click on the links for examples
Task 2. Create Meaning
Reform into 2 groups of 3/4 with a student who has studied each theorist and share our videos/learning
Task 3. Create Meaning & Share
Prepare an overview using Extranormal of a debate between these 3 theorists about how their theories relate to Xfactor and Social Networking.
Task 4. Apply to demonstrate
Group A will apply these theories to Black Mirror '15 Million Merits'
Group B will apply these theories to Black Mirror 'White Bear'
Watch these shows and prepare a presentation for Tuesdays last lesson to demonstrate what you have learned ANALYSING the postmodern aspects/themes of the these shows
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Homework - Lyotard & Jameson (Gaga Minaj)
A quick recap in case you are a bit lost...
4:07 to 6 min
Exam question: You need to explain why 2 different Media forms are considered Postmodern.
Modernism = structure, order, belief in truth, ideas, science & progress
Postmodernism = lack of belief, empty, superficial, recycled, nostalgia/retro, blurring, fluid or collapsing structures
Where we have been
Jameson - we have exhausted all ideas, no progress so we can only recycle old styles
Lyotard - no belief in Grand Narratives = structures are now fluid or collapsing = no depth, no order = style over substance and blurring of identities, realities etc...
Baudrillard (next week)
To prepare:
Read through the Posts on Lady Gaga & Nicki Minaj
Identify the relevant points:
How do they demonstrate a lack of belief in Lyotard's Grand Narratives - how do they collapse or make fluid structures or fixed ideas?
- Male & Female Identity
- Racial or Ethnic Identity
- Morality/Pornography
- Real and Artificial
- Fixed or Fluid Identity
- Musical Genre
Use the Modernism to Postmodern column to apply of how Lady Gaga & Nicky Minaj are Postmodern Characters (ie they are not real they are simualtions/artificial constructions - this will lead us into next weeks lesson)
Here is some support
Monday, 18 March 2013
What is Pomo - Lyotard & The Death of The Grand Narrative
0:00 - 1:50
The collapse of the "Grand Narrative"
One of the old, modernist grand narrative was, and for some still is, that science will solve nearly all our problems. Of course, apart from religious narratives, there are a number of other "grand narratives", too. Hollwood draw on most of the'grand' narratives listed below. One major flaw in Lyotard's argument is that postmodernism, itself, offers its own "grand narrative".
Most famously, in La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir (The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge) (1979),
he proposes what he calls an extreme simplification of the "postmodern"
as an 'incredulity towards meta-narratives'. These meta-narratives -
sometimes 'grand narratives' - are grand, large-scale theories and
philosophies of the world, such as the progress of history, the
knowability of everything by science, and the possibility of absolute
freedom. Lyotard argues that we have ceased to believe that narratives
of this kind are adequate to represent and contain us all. We have
become alert to difference, diversity, the incompatibility of our
aspirations, beliefs and desires, and for that reason postmodernity is
characterised by an abundance of micronarratives. From Wikipedia
One of the old, modernist grand narrative was, and for some still is, that science will solve nearly all our problems. Of course, apart from religious narratives, there are a number of other "grand narratives", too. Hollwood draw on most of the'grand' narratives listed below. One major flaw in Lyotard's argument is that postmodernism, itself, offers its own "grand narrative".
Gaga & Minaj - how are they reactions to Modernism?
http://www.racialicious.com/2010/04/08/quoted-menda-francois-on-nicki-minaj-and-feminist-contradictions-in-hardcore-female-rap/
http://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2010/09/12/curious-case-nicki-minaj
http://gagajournal.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/cant-read-my-poker-face-postmodern.html?m=1
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/Kklick1564-375048-lady-gaga-post-modern-feminist-postmodern-feminism-entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/
http://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2010/09/12/curious-case-nicki-minaj
http://gagajournal.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/cant-read-my-poker-face-postmodern.html?m=1
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/Kklick1564-375048-lady-gaga-post-modern-feminist-postmodern-feminism-entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/
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