Paper 1 mocks exam LR

 1) Type up any feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).

Use more key terms

Use extra time

Apply key terms better

Go to your Media teacher's Google Classroom and find the mark scheme and examiner's report uploaded. This is vital as the paper was an official exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce.

2) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify and points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme:
1)  Speak about functions of semiotics - anchorage

Figure 1 has three verbal elements and any of them can be used to

demonstrate the required analysis (only one will be needed to fulfil the

rubric): these are a title/caption/tagline: ‘what will take your breath away?’,

the name of the advertiser National Trust and what is probably their current

slogan ‘Time well spent’.

Each of these can be analysed firstly in terms of their ‘presentation’

(positioning, pitch, grammatical features) which might have an impact on their

influence: eg some might argue an order of importance/intervention or even a

sequence/narrative rounded off with ‘Time well spent’.

2) This question assesses understanding of the theoretical framework of

representation and knowledge and understanding of the contexts of media and

their influence on media products and processes, particularly focusing on: 

• the way the media through re-presentation construct versions of reality

• how media representations convey values, attitudes and beliefs about the

world and how these may be systematically reinforced across a wide range

of media representations

• the effect of historical context on representations

• the way in which representations make claims about realism.

3) Responses in the higher bands will clearly engage with the ‘to what extent’

part of the question when it comes to understanding the music video and

draw conclusions that are substantiated by effective analysis of the product. Responses in the middle band will show some engagement with this element

of the question and use examples in a straightforward way to support

conclusions.

 Responses in the lower bands may not engage with this element of the

question, may not draw conclusions that are substantiated by analysis, or

may simply describe aspects of media language and/or the set product.

4) Responses in the middle band will show some engagement with this element

of the question and use examples in a straightforward way to support

conclusions.

 Responses in the lower bands may not engage with this element of the

question, may not draw conclusions that are supported by appropriate

reference to the CSP, or may simply describe aspects of Queer and Feminist

theory.

5) work on key terms 

6) Newsbeat has a specific audience profile which is defined by age and

outlook, and editorial choices aim to select ‘resonant’ material it does have though, and always has had, a very clear pitch and voice and assumption about its audience: this register is a key technique. Newsbeat achieves this through editorial choices which define what young

people are interested in (music, sport, other young people) one criticism has always been that it is trivial and anti-intellectual and bland,

also apolitical

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3) Look at Question 4 - a 20-mark essay evaluating Judith Butler's gender is a performance theory. Write an essay plan for this question using the indicative content in the mark scheme and with enough content to meet the criteria for Level 4 (top level). This will be somewhere between 3-4 well-developed paragraphs plus an introduction answering the question planned in some detail.

Intro

• Outline Judith Butler's theory with a brief explanation

1st paragraph

• Score hair cream - masculine norms/ expectations of the time, patriarchy, forced masculine ( could be making fun of it/ is a joke)
• Gauntlet : masculinity
• Butler: change of norm and values

2nd Paragraph

• Sephora - speak about homosexuality
• Make reference to old town road (maybe) for homosexuality
• Speak about the cultural conviviality and stereotypes
• Emphasise gender stereotypes, mention racial stereotypes (as examples)

3rd paragraph

• Score and Sephora compare - speak about the response/ reason for each advert (context) 

Short conclusion

4) Based on the whole of your Paper 1 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your summer exam Media revision timetable.

• Key terms
• Unseen
• Theorists
• CSP
• Application