End of Y12 exam - Media Paper 2: Learner response

Y12 exam - Media Paper 2: Learner response

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 the CSPs shown in an extensive response. Well done!

EBI: Don't use up time/space describing theories, just apply/ evaluate them. For Question 2, you needed more focus on Hall's ideas and how much audiences are free to interpret. I think politics would have helped here: left v right in capital and in D83 capitalism v communism.

2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully, paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. Firstly, focus on the unseen question and identify two aspects of the poster that you could have written about in your answer.

• the link between genre and stereotypes – the representation of victim in the thriller/crime drama.
• the use of props to denote the narrative and genre elements

3) Look at the indicative content for Q1 again and make a note of any theories or examples of media terminology you could have used in your answer.

• the way events, issues, individuals and social groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of selection and combination.

4) Now focus on the TV 25-marker. Read this exemplar response for the TV question and pick out three arguments, phrases or theories from the essay that you could use in a future question on Capital and Deutschland 83.

Representations of multi culturalism and immigration may be read from differing positions, shifting the message of the drama.

 Institutional context of the BBC as public service broadcaster may position the drama to have a particular reading.

The postmodern visual aesthetic draws on pastiche; ability to recognise this style will affect interpretation.

5) Finally, identify three things you need to revise for Media Paper 2 before your next assessment or mock exam.

• media terminology 
• d83+capital
• applying other theories to the csps