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1. “Survivor” is best described as a…

   genre vs product
   • Genre
   • Product / franchise
   • Convention
   • Platform

2. “The confessional” is best described as a…

   convention
   • Genre
   • Franchise
   • Convention
   • Episode event

3. “Netflix shows” is best described as a…

   platform vs genre
   • Genre
   • Platform category
   • Subgenre
   • Convention

4. Which sentence avoids the 'audience = society' error?

   audience
   • Society loves watching people suffer.
   • Streaming viewers who value authenticity expect visible hardship.
   • Everyone enjoys reality TV.
   • The public is obsessed with survival.

5. How does elimination differ between Survivor and Alone?

   elimination
   • Both use a group vote.
   • Survivor uses a group vote; Alone uses tap-out/medical removal.
   • Alone uses a host's decision; Survivor uses tap-out.
   • Neither has elimination.

6. Which is EXPLANATION (Merit), not just description?

   describe vs explain
   • Alone contestants film themselves.
   • Alone uses self-filming because imperfect footage signals authenticity, which a media-literate audience now demands.
   • There is no host in Alone.
   • Contestants get hungry in Alone.

7. Which is the strongest IMPLICATION (Excellence) of escalating authenticity claims?

   implications
   • Shows will be more popular.
   • Producers may face greater pressure on contestant safety, while 'raw' framing makes selective editing more persuasive.
   • People will watch more TV.
   • Authenticity is good.

8. Which uses theory well (applied, not name-dropped)?

   theory
   • Neale said repetition and difference.
   • Repetition (the prize, the confessional) is preserved while difference concentrates in how you are eliminated, showing Neale's balance shifting toward authenticity.
   • This relates to Uses and Gratifications.
   • Hall is relevant here.

9. Outlast combines wilderness endurance with team-based social betrayal. This is best classified as…

   genre
   • A sub-genre of Alone
   • Hybridisation — recombining conventions from survival and social-strategy traditions
   • A new genre entirely
   • A franchise of Survivor

10. Which claim survives the audience-vs-society test?

    audience
    • Society was anxious after 2008, so the genre changed.
    • People wanted realness, which is why Alone exists.
    • Alone's renewal history shows its self-filmed authenticity found the audience History bet on — viewers reality-literate enough to distrust produced formats.
    • Everyone was tired of Survivor by 2015.

11. An essay explains in detail why elimination conventions changed, uses evidence from all three shows plus a review — but its implications paragraph is one tacked-on sentence. Most likely band?

    exam
    • A4
    • M6
    • E7
    • E8

12. Which of these is a LOAD-BEARING convention of survival reality competition?

    load-bearing conventions
    • The elimination vote
    • Environment as antagonist
    • Orchestral scoring
    • Multi-camera coverage

13. Derrida's 'law of genre' argues that a text…

    genre theory
    • belongs to exactly one genre
    • can only participate in a genre, never belong to one
    • must contain every convention of its genre
    • loses its genre once it hybridises

14. What caused the 2010s authenticity turn (Naked and Afraid, Alone)?

    genre change
    • New health and safety regulations
    • The invention of the drone
    • Audience fatigue with manipulated formats, plus high-quality diary cams enabling crew-less filming
    • A collapse in the price of tropical filming permits

15. Which of these EXPLAINS rather than merely names?

    naming vs explaining
    • There is no music during the bear scene.
    • The director uses a wide aerial shot of the camp.
    • Withholding the score removes the audience's emotional safety net, forcing them to experience the threat as unmediated rather than as a scored set piece.
    • Alone uses diary cams and GoPros.

16. What is the paradox of time compression in this genre?

    media language
    • It makes episodes longer than the events they cover
    • It removes the tedium that is the most authentic part of real survival
    • It only affects challenges, never camp life
    • It is used by Survivor but not by Alone

17. Why does Outlast change only one rule (you must be on a team to win)?

    commercial
    • Netflix ran out of production budget
    • The economy of genre: difference must stay small enough to remain legible to an audience managing its own risk
    • Survival formats are legally restricted from changing more
    • Because audiences dislike all innovation