Lesson 5.1 Assessment

Starter: 
Theorist Roads for Mind Map Analysis Street Signs

Theoretical Approach
Mind Map out your use of the 4 Theorists in how they apply to 2 of the following 3 Texts:

15 Million Merits/White Bear



Wreck It Ralph


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In your mentor pairs, Capture print Screens of specific examples and annotate how the text travels down each road using this online mind map software:
http://mind42.com/

Write up what each theorist has contribute to each text as you take it 'down that road', here is a recap on some of those theorists:

4.5 Starter Theoretical Approach (Simulation & Emptiness)

4.5 Case Study 2: 15 Million Merits/White Bear

Lyotard Collapse of the Grand Narrative (lack of b...

Apply to demonstrate:
Read the resources below before you attempt the essay

Essay Plan - use this to plan your essay, it is detail so follow this structure

Exemplars Graded- examples from last year different levels

Mark Scheme

Submit end of lesson by email to rich.barton@leighacademy.org.uk

Homework: 
How do Postmodern Media Texts challenge traditiona...
Reality TV: Post Modern Audience Theory
DOUG STANHOPE on Reality TV

Read Over and explain:
1. Why Reality TV is Postmodern using 1. Lyotard, 2. Baudrillard & 3. Foucault or Debord
2. What does it Reject, Collapse, come after?
3. Why is reality TV so popular with a postmodern audience?
4. How does it demonstrate that the boundary between Media Text and Audience (or Text & Reader) is collapsing?

Present this by your AVATAR (Virtual you): http://www.voki.com/create.php

4.5 Starter Theoretical Approach (Simulation & Emptiness)

 

4.5 Case Study 2: 15 Million Merits/White Bear

Watch the episodes White Bear or 15 Million Merits

New Info:

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

http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/week-3-theoretical-approach-baudrillard.html

Task 2. Create Meaning

Reform into 2 groups of 3/4 with a student who has studied each theorist and share our videos/learning 

Prepare an overview using Powtoon of a debate between these 3 theorists about how their theories relate to Xfactor and Social Networking.



Session 2:
Task 3. Apply to the Case Study in 2 x teams of 3 (1 per Theorist)
Use Clip Converter to download the episode.
Edit out the key scenes and visual examples (45 secs max)
Import into Prezi and add your analysis of how the quote applies to the examples(s) chosen.
Conclude with a decision of to what extent this is 'Theoretically' PostModern
 

Baudrillard: Simulation

Foucault: The Panopticon

Debord: The Society of The Spectacle

Homework Reading

http://leighmediaa2pomo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/15-million-merits-postmodernism-essay.html

Lyotard Collapse of the Grand Narrative (lack of belief in ideas and progress)

Jean-François Lyotard

The collapse of the "Grand Narrative"

La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir (The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge) (1979). These 'grand narratives'—are {Big Ideas}, 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. He points out that no one seemed to agree on what, if anything, was real and everyone had their own perspective and story.

Homework: How to answer the exam question - follow these!

1. Read the question

2. Translate the terms used and explode out all the evidence/ideas/theories this links to

3. How is it asking you to define PoMo: rejection of BIG IDEAS and lack of belief in progress
4. List your evidence for and against - draw boxes around & number to 'weigh up' the relevance of each point

5. Balance and link the stylistic (paragraph 1), Structural (Paragraph 2: For PoMo and Paragraph 3: For Modernism) and theoretical approach (Paragraph 4: no belief in truth = emptiness, pessimism = superficial style over substance, lack of depth and distopia)

6. Write out your opinion now you have balanced all the evidence - this is your answer and therefore - the Introduction. Add to this your definition of PostModernism.

7. Conclusion - From 1980's games or Tron to Ralph, how has Postmodern characteristics intensified or become stronger over 30 years? How is film reacting to a gaming audience that demands interactivity from it's media? Where will this take film in 30 years from now?

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