Section A Exam Prep

A few of you asked me for some extra clips to help you revise for Section A.

Try to follow the exam conditions where you will only view the extract 4 times before writing for approximately 45mins.

Please post all responses onto your blog for me to mark.

Ethnicity = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C60mtKUaBB0&feature=related

Gender = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bbre41Q6-s&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cDs1FGKo-I&feature=related

Sexuality = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCoRrVquolk&feature=related

Age = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6GI3XIuO2Y

Regional Identity = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY_pgqX8qyo&feature=related

Class/Status = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTBOoW-hR-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pJhL-A8XyE&feature=related

Physical Ability/Disability = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT0zjvDg5tc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSAGvpM7W8

Section A Mark Scheme

Friday's Media Lesson

Hi Yr12 Media.

Please find attached the work we will be using in Friday's P2 lesson (1B4).

We will be looking at mark schemes to further enable you to write high standard Section A exam answers.

Instructions:

1) Watch the YouTube clip from the January 2009 Exam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTQDipfN8JA

The questions was: How is age represented in this extract?
(Monarch of the Glen)

Jot down any notes you would make in order to answer this question.

2) Open up the word document - Section A Markscheme (I will also be printing and photocopying this for you)

3) Open up the word document - Example answers
There are 3 different answers from that exam. Use the markscheme to grade them.
Basically you give a Level for each AO.

E.g you might mark an answer like this:
Explanations/analysis/argument - Low Level 3
Use of examples - High Level 2
Use of terminology - Low Level 3

4) What areas do you think you need to work on to achieve a Level 4? Write it down in an email to me.

5) Mark your essay on 'White Girl' so far. What do you need to add??

6) HOMEWORK: Re-write your essay on 'White Girl'. I cannot stress how important it is that you complete a FULL response to this, as if you were in the exam. I will then grade this and you will have a clear ideas whether you are meeting your target grade or not. EMAIL IT TO ME BY NEXT WEDNESDAY LATEST.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbYADp56lDc


NEXT WEDNESDAY WE WILL HAVE A SECTION A MOCK EXAM. SO REVISE KEY TERMS AND BE PREPARED!!
Then we will move onto SECTION B.

How is AGE represented in this extract?

Apologies for my absence.



Please analyse this extract from the TV Drama 'White Girl' (BBC) referring to:

Camera angles, movement, composition

Editing

Sound

Mise en scene

In Friday's lesson we will be marking your work together so it is VITAL that you do this essay to the best of your ability.

TV Drama Update

There are lots of other media blogs out there that you may find useful to look at, namely because they contain ready-made youtube clips that you could analyse for extra revision. They often also contain other student's responses to these clips which you can compare to your own, to see whether you going in-depth enough in your responses.

I look forward to seeing all of your Life On Mars essays by Wednesday. Well done Tasha and Sophie for already submitting yours!

This will be our last week on TV Drama before moving onto Section B. That doesn't mean that you should stop watching TV Drama or that we won't do any more exam prep for it!!

TV Drama you should be watching:

Being Human (BBC3 Sundays 9pm)

Silent Witness (BBC1 Mondays 9pm)

Hattie (Available on iPlayer for 10 more days MUST WATCH!)

Hustle (BBC1 Fridays 9pm)

Useful blogs

http://www.blogglebox.co.uk/blogglebox/?cat=60

http://6thformnoodle.blogspot.com/2009/02/as-media-studies-unit-g322-exam-tv.html

http://therfieldmediastudies.blogspot.com/2010/02/g322-tv-drama-doctor-who-clip-june-2009.html

Let me know if you also find anything useful.

Homework

Homework due next Wednesday.

Watch either Downton Abbey or Upstairs Downstairs
OR Lark Rise to Candleford starts back on Sunday.

Analyse a 4 minute clip as you would in the exam.

I suggest focusing on Class/Status
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/categories/drama/classic_and_period

Edit: Upstairs Downstairs is no longer on iPlayer. Use Youtube instead or watch one of the Costume/period dramas currently available on iPlayer.

Upstairs Downstairs

Happy New Year Media Students! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break. However it is back to the grindstone for us, so may I remind you that I expect to see some work on Upstairs Downstairs appearing on your blogs soon.

We will spend some time working on period dramas over the next couple of weeks.

Some to watch are:

Brideshead Revisited

Pride & Prejudice

Tess of the D'Ubervilles

Downton Abbey

Upstairs Downstairs

Because period drama has been very popular recently, it could well pop up in the exam. . . . .