How to write a lftvd q3 from TomEccles4
The question from
OCR’s Practice Paper:
3* Why do long form television dramas
from different countries offer different representations?
In your
answer you must:
• consider the contexts in which long
form television dramas are produced and consumed
• explain how media contexts may have
influenced representations in the set episodes of the two long form television dramas you have studied
• make judgements and reach
conclusions about the reasons for the differences in representation between the
two episodes.
Example questions, written in the same format:
3* How and why are genre conventions important
for the audience to aid understanding of long form television dramas?
In your
answer you must:
• consider the contexts in which long
form television dramas are produced and consumed
• explain how media contexts may have
influenced the genre conventions in the set episodes of the two long form television dramas you
have studied
• make judgements and reach
conclusions about the reasons for the differences in genre conventions between
the two episodes.
3* ‘Industry contexts greatly
influence the choices media producers make about how to represent events,
issues, individuals and social groups.’
Discuss how and why producers might be influenced to construct representations
differently.
In your answer you must:
•
consider the contexts in which long form television dramas are
produced and consumed
•
explain how media contexts may have influenced different aspects of
representation in the set episodes of the two long form television dramas you have
studied
•
make judgements and reach conclusions about the differences in
representation between the two set episodes.
Other things you may be asked about:
Context:
How LFTVD reflects and constructs
social, cultural and political attitudes towards wider issues and
beliefs
How LFTVD can act as a means of
reflecting historical issues and events – and what can influence this
Language:
How
the different modes and language associated with LFTVD communicate multiple meanings
Genre
–
·
what are the codes and conventions
·
how this changes historically and through
technology
·
intertextual references and their significance
·
how LFTVD challenges and subverts conventions
Audience
– how and why they may respond in different ways due to a number of demographic
and psychographic differences
Representation:
The
way events, issues, individuals and social groups (including social identity)
are represented through processes of selection and combination
How
audience responses to and interpretations of media representations reflect
social, cultural and historical circumstances
How
realism is created in LFTVD
How
and why stereotypes can be used positively and negatively
How
and why particular social groups, in a national and global context, may be
under-represented or misrepresented
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