Media exam paper 1: learner response

 Create a new blogpost on your Media Exam blog called 'Media Paper 1 learner response' and work through the following tasks:

1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).
WWW: excellent knowledge of CSPs throughout

EBI: unseen text analysis and Q6 holding you back from an A grade.

2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully, paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. This is some of the best analysis you can do as it gives you an idea of what the exam board is expecting. For your LR blogpost, identify ONE point you could have added for the first three questions in Section A:

Q1 (unseen text) additional point/theory: 

• Schatz: genres of order

Q2 (unseen text and CSP) additional point/theory/CSP reference: 

• both products can be seen as simulated versions of reality featuring self-consciously stylised hyper- masculine constructions, presenting the audience (to a greater or lesser extent) with role models

Q3 (music video) additional point/theory/CSP reference: 

• this is an explicitly political text dealing with social and cultural issues affecting the youth of ‘Thatcher's Britain’

3) Now focus on Section B. Section B began with two questions testing your knowledge of industry terminology. Make sure you know the answers to these (get the answers from the mark scheme if you have to):

Benefits of horizontal integration:  always have another way to earn money

Vertical integration: earn money at every chain of production

4) The Section B CSP focus was on Blinded By The Light. Look at the mark scheme and write a definition of traditional marketing with examples.

 Traditional marketing is how people marketed films orginally, through billboards, posters, trailers, interviews etc.

5) Finally, identify three things you plan to revise before your next Media assessment or mock exam (e.g. terminology, particular theories or CSPs etc.) 

• Industry
• political contexts
• unseen