L.O. To gain better understanding of the mark scheme.To recap on criteria for section A.To begin looking at representations in Hip-hop

Peer Assessment, Section A and Intro to hip-hop

Starter: How do these images reflect euro-centrism or afro-centrism why?

H/W-Recap: Any changes over time?

Put the following characters into Stuart Hall and Propp’s characterisation categories . How have the characters progressed over a period of time? Have they changed at all? Discuss.

Dwayne Chambers

Willie BoyBlue

Trife/Trevor

Leon Chambers

Beefy Errol Sam

H/W: Due after the Christmas holidays. Begin brainstorms for how you will approach

section A. Complete a spider diagram for each area/concept in section A 1a and 1b, relating 1a to AS and A2 (You must emphasise on how you have progressed from AS to A2) Productions and 1b to only one production.

You must also begin looking at contemporary music videos, choose 3 and look at the different ways that black men and black women are represented. Link the representations to theory already discussed.

H/W: Due after the Christmas holidays. Begin brainstorms for how you will approach

section A. Complete a spider diagram for each area/concept in section A 1a and 1b, relating 1a to AS and A2 (You must emphasise on how you have progressed from AS to A2) Productions and 1b to only one production.

You must also begin looking at contemporary music videos, choose 3 and look at the different ways that black men and black women are represented. Link the representations to theory already discussed.

Peer Assessment Question

How does the media instill fear of black people through different media representations? Do you think that colonialism is responsible

for the representations of today?

Peer Assessment Criteria

Your response must include: Reference to both moral panic, the

hypodermic theory, colonialism and some reference to audience reception.

You must refer to actual media related examples; case study films, articles, other films, media you know of.

You should also refer to theory we have already discussed in class; e.g. Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Paul Gilroy, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon etc.

Link to AO1, AO2, 1,2,3, 4

Areas of focus for section B1. How does contemporary media

represent black people in different ways?

2. How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods?

3. What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?

4. To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’?

AO’s for this section

AO1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of media concepts, contexts and critical debates, using terminology appropriately and with accurate and coherent written expression.AO2: Apply knowledge and understanding to show how meanings are created when analysing media products and evaluating their own practical work.

bell hooks

The colour codes: Lighter skinned women are considered more desirable and fit better into the western ideology of beauty.

Black women are objectified and sexualised in hip-hop reflecting the colonialist view of black women (sexually disposable).

Commodified blackness, a mediated view of black culture that is considered the norm.

Frantz Fanon

“Colonisation is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it”.

Fanon states that colonialism takes away from the colonised country. Be that their culture, their way of life and in some cases their history and exploits the country for what they have.

Laura Mulvey

The Male Gaze Film represents women as passive

objects of male desire. Audiences are forced to view women

from the point of view of a heterosexual male even if they are indeed; heterosexual women or homosexual men.

John Berger

“Men look, women appear” Women are there solely to be

objectified by men within all platforms of the media.(Think of examples of different magazines, films, TV shows or websites where this is evident, how are women represented in your production?)

Tricia Rose

Hip Hop gives black female rappers a voice introducing female empowerment.

Hip hop gave audiences an insight into the lives of young black urban Americans and gave them a voice.

Exam Question Part A

The first question requires you to describe and evaluate your skills and development over the course of your production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.

The second asks you to identify one production and evaluate it in relation to one theoretical concept. I would suggest you to use your A2 production as it is more recent and clearer.

Question 1a AreasThe question will relate to one of the following

practices;

Digital Technologies: Internet, MLE, Wiki’s, editing programmes, photoshop, InDesign, digital stills camera, DV camera

Creativity: How have you developed your creativity, have you followed or gone against typical conventions?

Research and Planning: How have you developed your research and planning skills? What methods did you carry out?

Post Production: Editing and final touches – Were the results as you had hoped? How far had your original planning and research changed?

Media Text Conventions: How did you include conventions within your text? Did you think they were vital for audiences to understand your text? How did you include them in your research and planning? Did they change as your knowledge and understanding progressed?

Section A 1b: Concepts

Requires candidates to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. The list of concepts to which questions will relate is as follows:

Representation: Who do we see? Who created it? What does this say about the representations within it?

Narrative: What narrative theories apply? How is the narrative structured? Linear or non-linear?

Audience: Who is this targeted at? Age, gender, ethnicity? What indicates this? Demographic and psychographic profile?

Genre: What genre is this? Is it hybrid? What conventions have you used? How well do they work? What is the theme?

Media Language: How do audiences read your text? What signifying elements have you included?

In the examination, questions will be set using one of these concepts only.

1(b

Choose from AS or A2, main task or ancillary/preliminary task.

You will select one production that relates most to the concept.

If none of your productions relate to the task you must explain how and why they do not fit into that concept.

As revision it would be a good idea to consider how you would relate each of your productions to the different concepts to work out how to answer the question.

What images does hip hop portray of black people?

What image of black people do the following videos portray?Video 1Video 2Video 3Video 4