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Common - Letter to the Free blog tasks

Social and cultural context 1) What other projects has Common been involved in? He performed a longer version of Letter to the Free at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival as well as make new music such as "The people" and "The Light". 2) What is the 13th Amendment of the American Constitution? The amendment stated that slavery was abolished as well as involuntary servitude, expect in cases where a person has committed a crime. 3) What were the Black Codes? The Black codes was a law that was passed by the southern states in 1965 and 1966 just after the US had their civil war between the southern and northern states. The intent behind the civil war was to restrict African Americans right to freedom and forcing them to  The restrictive nature of the codes and widespread black resistance to their enforcement enraged many in the North, who argued that the codes violated the fundamental principles of free labour ideology.  4) Why do people suggest that the legacy

Music video: theory

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Childish Gambino, the musical stage name of writer and performer Donald Glover, has just released a critique of American culture and Donald Trump with  This Is America . Racking up 10m views in 24 hours and already dubbed ‘genius’ and ‘a masterpiece’, the music video is a satirical comment on American culture, racism and gun violence.   1) How does the  This Is America  video meet the key conventions of a music video? The 'This Is America' video meets the key conventions of a music video because it has a performance, the artist is featured in the video. The video also uses narrative, he uses real life references to drive the narrative. The use of intertextuality is used frequently in the video, the reference to Jim Crow, the Choir and Stephen Clarke.  2) What comment is the video making on American culture, racism and gun violence? The video is commenting on the position of black people in America and how they are viewed or treated by society. Gambino strikes a Jim Crow

Film & TV assessment learner response

1) Type up your feedback in  full  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). WWW: Good understanding of the basics for both CSPs in Q3. EBI: Revise more! No answer for for Q1. Revise postmodernism. Q3 doesnt fully answer the question - mainly descriptive  2) Read the  whole mark scheme for this assessment  carefully. Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment (even if you got full marks for the question). Q1: - The poster arguably provides a good example of pastiche: media products that imitate the style of another text, artist or time period. Although an argument can be made that Kingsman: The Secret Service is a parody (there are definitely suggestions of comedy) the poster as a whole asks to be taken seriously. In a parody, audiences would likely expect a tagline that confirms the comic nature of the film. The only text appearing here is: ‘From the director of X Men: F

Music Video introduction blog task

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Go to our Media Factsheet archive on the Media Shared drive and open Factsheet #69: Music Video. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets - you'll need to save the factsheet to USB or email it to yourself in order to complete this at home. Read the factsheet and answer the following questions: 1) What is the purpose of a music video? A music video is a message to the audience,  entertain  and the main purpose of music videos is to promote artists and promote brands. But it's mainly to promote the track. A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. 2) How has the digital age changed the production and distribution of music videos? Back in the day pre-production music videos used to follow the idea of a 'concept video'. Music videos were originally designed to promote products to the world wide public in a short space of time. Produce