Paper 2 mock exam learner response
1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).
Q1- EBI: Explicit references to keywords in question
traditional strength. I also didn't mention other things such as his tattoo etc.
Q2:
Additional points: Capital regulated by Ofcom and has BBC remit. Sunday evening scheduling, the representation of contemporary political and cultural issues (the ‘state of the nation’) signify the programme as a serious, quality product which is worthy of public funding.
Deutschland 83 shown on channel 4 originally from Germany to show global nature of TV industry. Deutschland 83 as a transnational coproduction illustrates the limitations of national regulation which is restricted by borders – audience protection may therefore be secondary to the aims of institutions.
HFW, the third-person, open-world nature of the game play could be used to analyse how the player receives the representations and to consider the power relations between play and producer. The use of technology to create a realist aesthetic may reinforce a reading of the game as being about the real world (cultural contexts).
Q4:
Additional points: I need to talk more about industries. Specifically how media organisations maintain, including through marketing, varieties of audiences nationally and globally and the relationship of recent technological change and media production, distribution and circulation.
5) Based on the whole of your Paper 2 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your Easter Media revision timetable.
Q1- EBI: Explicit references to keywords in question
Q2- EBI: A more sustained answer- some specific examples from the texts at least
Q3- EBI: Consider how HFW may be rad as a metaphor for our contemporary contexts
Q4- WWW: Excellent answer. Really detailed with an assured use of examples
EBI: Perhaps include some industry data contextualising the decline of print.
2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your target grade for A Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2?
These are the grade boundaries we've used, based on real AQA exam grade boundaries (out of 84):
A* = 70; A = 62; B = 51; C = 40; D = 30; E = 20.
Now read through the real AQA mark scheme for Paper 2.
3) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme:
Example: Q2: 13/25 marks
Additional points: I didn't focus on the question - validity of theory. I should have...
Q1:
Additional points: Next time, I can talk about how the construction of masculinity can be read as paradoxical, with aspects of vulnerability (the pleading look, body language, nakedness) combined with2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your target grade for A Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2?
These are the grade boundaries we've used, based on real AQA exam grade boundaries (out of 84):
A* = 70; A = 62; B = 51; C = 40; D = 30; E = 20.
Now read through the real AQA mark scheme for Paper 2.
3) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme:
Example: Q2: 13/25 marks
Additional points: I didn't focus on the question - validity of theory. I should have...
Q1:
traditional strength. I also didn't mention other things such as his tattoo etc.
Q2:
Additional points: Capital regulated by Ofcom and has BBC remit. Sunday evening scheduling, the representation of contemporary political and cultural issues (the ‘state of the nation’) signify the programme as a serious, quality product which is worthy of public funding.
Deutschland 83 shown on channel 4 originally from Germany to show global nature of TV industry. Deutschland 83 as a transnational coproduction illustrates the limitations of national regulation which is restricted by borders – audience protection may therefore be secondary to the aims of institutions.
Q3:
Additional points: Could have talked about how the immersive nature of the game means that the player is more vulnerable to accepting the values and beliefs being conveyed for the Sims. The game has been read as representing conservative values which are reflective of mainstream society and culture.HFW, the third-person, open-world nature of the game play could be used to analyse how the player receives the representations and to consider the power relations between play and producer. The use of technology to create a realist aesthetic may reinforce a reading of the game as being about the real world (cultural contexts).
Q4:
Additional points: I need to talk more about industries. Specifically how media organisations maintain, including through marketing, varieties of audiences nationally and globally and the relationship of recent technological change and media production, distribution and circulation.
4) Look at question 4 - the synoptic question. How many of the four key concepts did you cover in your answer? Write a new essay plan for this question using the indicative content in the mark scheme and taking care to include at least three of Language - Representations - Audience - Industries. You can use bullet points but make sure you offer enough content to meet the criteria for Level 5 (top level). This will be somewhere between 3-4 well-developed paragraphs planned in some detail.
Intro: Answer question
Para 1: GQ
-mainstream and can be specialized
-increasing target audience becoming specialized online through social media, websites and global editions
-Will Welch: editor has this idea on 'new masculinity' can be seen on Pharrell cover, the art and culture section as well as Robert Patterson
-Demographics and psychographics: specialized audience, wealthy, ABC1
-GQ heroes event- expensive and exclusive brand/content
Para 2: GW
-niche, specialized audience
-using Blumer and Katz theory the magazine includes personal identity, relationship and surveillance to audience
-print is seen as luxury coffee table
-only 2 editions a year reinforce niche
-unconventional cover designs
-unconventional close up shot for the from cover
-no cover lines
-content features Ramla Ali- female boxer, Izabelle Thee-'rewinding'
-seen as 'woke'
-Gentlewomen club has exclusive events and experiences
Conclusion
-Magazines are attempting to become creative to target their audience
-Both CSP's have attempted to do this
Intro: Answer question
Para 1: GQ
-mainstream and can be specialized
-increasing target audience becoming specialized online through social media, websites and global editions
-Will Welch: editor has this idea on 'new masculinity' can be seen on Pharrell cover, the art and culture section as well as Robert Patterson
-Demographics and psychographics: specialized audience, wealthy, ABC1
-GQ heroes event- expensive and exclusive brand/content
Para 2: GW
-niche, specialized audience
-using Blumer and Katz theory the magazine includes personal identity, relationship and surveillance to audience
-print is seen as luxury coffee table
-only 2 editions a year reinforce niche
-unconventional cover designs
-unconventional close up shot for the from cover
-no cover lines
-content features Ramla Ali- female boxer, Izabelle Thee-'rewinding'
-seen as 'woke'
-Gentlewomen club has exclusive events and experiences
Conclusion
-Magazines are attempting to become creative to target their audience
-Both CSP's have attempted to do this
5) Based on the whole of your Paper 2 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your Easter Media revision timetable.
-Capital and Deutschland
-Industries
-Video games
-Regulation theories, Livingstone and Lunt etc.
-OSPs
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