Learning objective: To work
on choosing a title and a format for your Textual Investigation.
Key words: Controlled assessment. Illustrated essay. Challenged. Conventional points of view.Controlled assessment
This is the work that you do in class that then counts towards your final GCSE grade. The assessments are controlled in that you must complete them in class under the supervision of your teacher. They are also controlled by the WJEC, the awarding body, as they set titles from which you must choose.
Illustrated essay
This is a written piece of work that includes images. For example, if the topic of your investigation is a film trailer, then you may include some screen shots to make your point clearer.
Challenged
In this question the expectation is that you will be investigating a media text that shows a different representation or set of genre conventions from the usual ones. For example a music video that shows a more realistic example of a young woman or a narrative that is not a simple linear structure.
Conventional points of view
This means that the representation in the text is what is expected by the audience. For example the representation of women in horror films is as a victim.
Textual investigations are a part of the controlled assessment element of your GCSE course.
You must include two Textual investigations in your final assessment file.
The textual investigations are worth 20 marks each. Usually you will complete these at the end of a topic.
These are the rules you must follow in completing Textual investigations.
- One must be print based.
- Neither textual investigation can be based on the topic you have chosen for your production piece.
- One textual investigation may be based on the examination topic, film posters or film trailers in your case.
- The two investigations must be on different topics and media forms.
- One textual investigation must be on genre.
- One must be based on narrative or representation.
- In your investigation you should refer to one main text but also refer to examples of other texts.
- Your investigation must be between 400 and 850 words.
Textual investigation titles:
(You must choose one of these titles with the name of your chosen text inserted)
- Investigate how genre conventions are used in [your chosen texts]
- Investigate how far genre conventions are challenged in [your chosen texts]
- Investigate how far [your chosen texts] conform to genre conventions
When you are writing about genre in a text, you should consider the following:
Visual codes - Costume, facial expression, colour, body language, graphics.
Technical codes - Framing, editing, lighting sound. (All these won't be applicable to print based texts.
Iconography, settings, mode of address.
Tips for completing your textual investigation:
- Choose texts that give you enough to write about. The suggestion is that you have one main text and refer to others in your investigation.
- Show your media knowledge of the topic area.It should be clear to the moderator that you have sat in a media studies lesson!
- Use media terminology. This means including vocabulary linked to the texts you are investigating, magazine covers for example; masthead, cover lines, mode of address.
- If you are investigating longer texts, you cannot discuss the whole programme within the word allocation. You must select key scenes or you may want to concentrate your investigation on the opening sequence and another key scene.
- If you are having trouble staying within the word limit, you may annotate an image instead of writing a paragraph it. This will cut down your word count.
- Plan your work before you start writing. Complete a rough draft and act on feedback from the teacher.
Task 1:
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Before the end of the lesson, submit 1 paragraph on three print based suggestions for your own textual investigation. This can be a film poster if you choose.You need to consider if the text challenges or conforms to genre conventions and if there are visual and technical codes for you to write about.
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