Homework this week - due Thurs 3rd May

1. Read the following articles:

XFactor Case Study: How is the audience/text relationship changing?

Post-Modern Futures: A different kind of reality TV

2. On your blogs, cut the highlighted statements from the articles that demonstrate how these texts are Post-modern - 

Then write 25 words expanding on how these are postmodern and challenge traditional forms and style of TV. please to cover the following (as you did with Gorillaz):

1. Blurring the boundaries between Audience, Text & Producer

2. Simulacra

3. Vacuous Narratives (empty, superficial, fame for fame's sake - no 'Grand-narrative')

4. Self Reflexive (being aware of its construction/making the production process apparent)

5. Voyeurism

6. Style over substance (Celebrity culture, superficial, vacuous, fame for fame's sake - no 'Grand-narrative')

7. Intertextuality (think about how other Media & Celebrity Culture re-enforces the Show)

8. Consumerism (music, culture, relationships become a commodity or product)

9. Hyper-reality (obviously this is crucially important: 'Reality TV?')

Write a 15 word outline for each explaining how it applies to the example

3. Post-Modern Futures

Its 2022. Write a 50 word treatment for a new TV show format that shows your opinion of where Post-Modern TV will go based on what we have studied. 

(Think of  the development of Interactivity, Web 2.0, Facebook, Social Networking, The Active Audience & Prosumers, Youtube, how the changes in the Music Industry you studied last year could affect the TV Industry?) 

Prize for the best 1!!!

4. Could those of you who took the Gorillaz A3 sheets you made from this week please photograph and send them to me asap please so I can upload them to the blog - some students may find this helpful for this weeks task. Thanks