Media exam paper 2: learner response

 Create a new blogpost on your Media Coursework blog called 'Media Paper 2 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:  Good analysis for both texts with good focus on both consumption and distribution 

EBI: could be a bit longer

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 (Q1) and identify two points that you could have written in your answer.

•  the grey skies are portentous, signifying a feeling of impending doom 
• the relative size of the figures in relation to the buildings signifies a super-human aspect to the characters, suggesting their omnipotence

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.

Mode of address

Anchorage

4) Now focus on the TV 25-marker. Use the mark scheme to note down:

- three general comments on the TV industry and cultural/economic contexts

• Increasingly global nature of media companies has enabled access to a range of international media products, suggesting a move away from the national and local.
• Shift to self-scheduling – enabled by technology and cultural changes – away from industry-controlled viewing.
• While there are an increased number of channels and streaming services, the choice is still relatively limited and dominated by the US conglomerates.

- three points for Capital

•  As a BBC ‘state of the nation’ series, commissioned for Sunday prime time slot, Capital may suggest that there have been limited changes to distribution and consumption.
• One of the key selling points of the series is its representation of cultural (and social, political) contexts.
•  Kudos, the independent producer of the series, specialises in TV series which can be sold or remade for the US market, making it typical of contemporary media institutions which operate globally rather than nationally – suggesting the shifting contexts a PSB now operates in.

- three points for Deutschland 83

•  It is a co-production of AMC Networks, SundanceTV (US) and RTL Television (Germany), positioning it to exploit the national and global market – characteristic of a trend arguably shaped by economic and cultural contexts.
•  Distributed by Fremantle, a British production and distribution company, subsidiary of RTL media, a global company which is designed to target an international audience – characteristic of media companies’ responses to economic contexts.
• •AMC and RTL were able to develop the series in the context of new opportunities for distribution and exhibition – eg the Walter Presents platform in the UK, which is a subsidiary of C4, exploiting broadcast and digital opportunities.

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

• Industry - more detailed
• Semiotics
• Unseen