EDUQAS GCSE COMP 2, MUSIC VIDS (SEC B) 2024 ONWARDS: REPRESENTATION AND CONTEXTS IN 'WATERFALL'S TLC

This lesson concludes the EDUQAS GCSE COMP 2, MUSIC VIDS (SEC B) 2024 ONWARDS: MUSIC VIDEO UNIT. It is a TRIPLE lesson (LESSON 7-9) ON TLC’s ‘Waterfalls’ music video. This lesson focuses on:

-Zeitgeist.
-Allegory and motif.
-The context behind 1990’s Gang Violence and the H.I.V./ AIDS crisis.
-The context of the LA riots and Rodney King.
-Archetype
-Countertype
-Stereotype
-Marginalisation
-Underrepresentation
-Tokenism
-Hegemonic/ maligned mass
-Contexts applied to ‘Waterfalls’
-Selection and combination exemplar on ‘Waterfalls’ before student embed tasks.
-Hypersexualization of women in the Hip-Hop/ R&B.
-Social realism
-Step-by-step breakdown of the following question with task/ indicative content support task:

1. How do music videos reflect the time in which they were made? Refer to Rio (Duran Duran, 1982) or Waterfalls (TLC, 1995) to support your points. [10]

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school is only providing Media Studies at GCSEl, as a three-year Course. Moreover, some of the tasks in lesson and for H/W are dependent upon owning the EDUQAS GCSE Revision Guide from Illumination Publishing.

This resource includes printable work sheets within the power point which have been section off at the end of the power point to aid with your printing/ convienience.

I DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHT TO VIDEOS THAT ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE POWER POINT AND ANY MENTION OF ‘FROM THE FACT SHEET’ IS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL FROM THE EDUQAS FACT SHEETS)

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