MIGRAIN: October assessment - learner response

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1) 38/48, Grade B.
 
WWW: Detailed and comprehensive responses with numerous points made.
 
 EBI: Always break up work with shorter paragraphs. Include other narrative theorists in Q1:Propp and Levi-Strauss.
 
2) Q1: Include Levi Strauss and Propp's theory.
    Q2: How they both include binary opposition.
    Q3: Neale-allows producers to evolve genre but maintain audience and Abercrombie.
    Q4: -
 
3) Q1: Break up in smaller paragraphs and make them specific.
    Q2: Talk about the ideologies.
    Q3: Include Abercrombie.
    Q4: How the jewellery connotes a positive image (preferred/hegemonic reading)
 
4) I didn't get any media terminology wrong, but I missed out some theorists such as Levi Strauss (binary opposition) and Propp.
 
5) Question 1 was my strongest question because I got 7/8. I done better in this question because I revised narrative theory the most.
 
6) My weakest question was 4, this is because I got 15/20. I could have expanded more on the readings. Question 3 was also weak, this is because I missed out theorist like Abercrombie and Neale.
 
7) Q3: Genre is important for both media producers and audiences because producers need to promote the movie and the audience needs to consume the movie, in order to do this the audience has to be interested and engaged with the movie. A media theorist, Tolson, claims that "genre mediates between industry and audience." (1996). This suggests that the genre producers use depends on what the audience like. Also, Barthes said that if movie genres are clichéd, they will become less appealing to the audiences. An example of this is Scary Movie. Scary Movie contains clichés lots of classical horror movies and puts them into one. This may make the audience less interested because they think that the movies are repetitive and may become bored of the genre. Additionally, Schazts claimed that there were genre cycles. Therefore, that a genre will always end up clichéd until a new sub genre is created. Nowadays, horror has sub genres and the gangster genre has evolved. Another theorist, Neale, claims "repetition and difference". He is trying to say that producers should evolve genres to maintain an audience as long as the plot is different, just like the gangster genre. Ultimately, genre is important for audiences because they get satisfaction and it allows them to compare the different media texts in ways of plot, characters and style. However, genre is important for the producers as well because they need to make it attractive for the audience in order to generate money. Abercrombie (a theorist) supports this by saying "television producers set out to exploit genre conventions...economic sense".

8) Feedback-

    WWW: Good application of media theory with examples and great use of media terminology.

EBI: Develop more on Abercrombie's theory.













 

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