Y12 Media exam: Paper 2 Learner response

 Paper 2 Learner response

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

- WWW: good analysis using media terminology, Some theory incorporated and linked well to CSPs.

- EBI: wrong approach to audience theory for question, more on ideology, need more knowledge of specific industry details and focus on consumption.

2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully, paying particular attention to the 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 grey skies are portentous, signifying a feeling of impending doom.
- an ideological reading might suggest that capitalism is a corrupt system which only benefits a few.

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 positioning of the characters and mode of address can be interpreted as signifiers of race and gender; the dominant whit male, evasive black male and diminished female.

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.

- Daily mail criticisms of Capital for featuring ‘more leftwing causes than a Jeremy Corbyn’s diary’ it could be argued that the focus on house prices and hard work actually reinforces dominant hegemonic ideologies most closely associated with right-wing capitalist values.

-Applying Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, this is unconsciously communicating to audiences the value in working hard, earning money and contributing to consumerism and capitalism - maintaining the status quo and reinforcing more rightwing ideology.

- Martin’s mother’s birthday party early in the first episode contains genuine warmth and happiness as partygoers sing ‘99 luftballons’ in stark contrast to the cold, tense BBQ scene at General Edel’s house in the West towards the end of the episode. Perhaps both of these shows are deliberately constructing a range of possible readings to reflect modern social, cultural and political contexts.

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

- relevant theories; e.g signifiers - Barthes
- more context on D83 and Capital - plot which links to question
- industries - BBC, Walter Presents etc