LO6: Mark Scheme

Level 4
16-20

Level 3
11-15

Level 2
6-9

Level 1
1-5

12 marks 60% P
14 marks 70% M
16 marks 80% D
18 marks 90% D*

Intro

• Opinion or answer to question
• Say what the product is, audience and regulatory (Discuss the potential media effects on a         product you have studied/ Discuss ow far you agree with the regulatory guidelines for a media product you have studied)
• Say how you will structure it

The product I have studied is South Park

In the United Kingdom, the show is generally rated 15, until season 7 when it gets an 18 rating due to the audio commentaries.

Several viewers criticized the season 10 (2006) episode "Hell on Earth 2006" for its depiction of Steve Irwin with a stingray stuck in his chest. The episode originally aired seven weeks after Irwin, an internationally popular Australian TV personality and wildlife expert, died when his heart was pierced by a stingray barb. Several groups and even devout fans of the show derided the scene and its timing as "grossly insensitive" and "classless", while Irwin's widow Terri Irwin expressed concern that her children could one day see the episode.

Season 10 - 'Cartoon Wars Parts I & II Season 14 - '200' and '201'

Taking on censorship by depicting Muhammad.

Because of this, Comedy Central heavily censored '201', placing another black box over all appearances of Muhammad, and bleeping out a huge discussion spoken by Kyle, Jesus and Santa about free speech. This move was heavily criticised by fans, cartoonists and academics. However, the network stated that the safety of their employees was the most important thing. They still haven't been shown on UK TV or released on region 2 DVD.

All this, despite the fact that Muhammad actually appeared uncensored and without any furore in an earlier episode.

Key Theory 4: Stuart Hall (1995)
Western/ white cultures continue to misrepresent ethnic minorities as in the media due to underlying racist tendencies. e.g non white as 'the other', evil, barbaric. This relates to this episode
because its censoring Muhammad as 'the other' and representing him as ethnic minorities

Theory 6: John Berger (1972)
Women were still depicted in a different way to men- because the 'ideal' spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him.South Park season 12  episode 9 breast cancer show ever. While Cartman was snigering at Wendys show, most of the other boys are passively sexist and just advise Cartman to go easy on her since she’s a girl. Either way, Wendy destroys sexism and beats up Cartman, all while wearing an awesome sparkly unicorn tank top.

LO3: Production Techniques

Mise-en-scene

• Location- when and where we are
• Props
• Costumes
• Lighting- high key and low key
• Character gestures

Levi Strauss Binary Oppositions (1958) (Props)

Barry Keith Grant sub- genre (1995) (Props)
Vladmir Propp Stock charaters (1928) (Acting gestures)
Mulvey objectfied women (1971) (Costume)

A technical element of mise en scene In Deadpool is character gestures. Levi Strauss theory comes into place because he has love vs duty. He wants to make things right with Vanessa but by doing so he needs to fix things before and his duty is to find Ajax and make things right with him before going back to his normal life with Vanessa

Barry Keith Grant theory comes into place as a subgenre of Deadpool could be comedy as it has alot of jokes in it and wouldnt be classified as just an action movie.

Patrick Philips Theory shows that DeadPool is predicitable because in terms of genre its an action film with a main antagonist and protagonist so we know there will be alot of fighting in it also a comic type film because DeadPool wears a costume and the other characters in the film have powers so its reassuring for the audience because they know what to expect. The editing techniques make it look like a comic book too in the beginning of the film

Mulveys theory shows women are objetified and in deadpool Vanessa is seen as an object that needs to be saved and doesnt play a major part in the film


A technical element of mise en scene