Although we will be working on coursework in lessons, you need to be revising for your Media exam as homework. Your exact exam date will be confirmed by your Media teacher - it will be in your double Media lesson in the last week of June or the first week of July. This exam is a brilliant opportunity to demonstrate everything you've learned this year and show you are on track to get a fantastic grade next year - make the most of it!
Important note: you will only have ONE Media exam at the end of Year 1. This is because we haven't covered all the content in the GCSE specification yet. For the PPEs next year you will have two Media exams that will replicate the real exams you will take in the summer of 2019.
GCSE Media End of Year 1 exam: revision and preparation
You need to revise all of the following to make sure you're fully prepared for the end of Year 1 exam. This means looking over ALL the terminology, concepts, theories and Close Study Products that we've studied this year.
General
Introduction to Media & Glossary
Here you need to look over all the concepts, theories and media terminology we learned from September to February. The Introduction to Media index is here - you will also have your own index on your blog that links to all of your work. Look over this index and make sure you know all of the terminology and theory. Your Media Glossary document will also help with terminology and audience demographics and psychographics are explained here. You can also find an electronic copy of the CSP checklist here - it should be in the front of your Media book.
Assessments: learner responses and mark schemes
This might be the most useful revision you will do. Look over your Media assessments this year - ideally your original exam paper but certainly your LR blogposts. What do you need to do to improve in future? This is the exam to put all of that into practice.
In addition, every assessment LR task had the mark scheme attached. These are based on real AQA mark schemes and all have extensive indicative content which suggests the answers the exam board are interested in. Read through the following carefully:
- October assessment mark scheme: Media Language and Audience
- January assessment mark scheme: Industries and Audience
- Advertising and marketing assessment mark scheme
Section A: Media Language and Representations
Section A will cover the targeted CSPs:
- Advertising & Marketing: OMO
- Advertising & Marketing: NHS Represent music video/blood donor campaign
- Advertising & Marketing: Galaxy broadcast advert - Audrey Hepburn
- Magazines: Reveal
- Magazines: Tatler
Section B: Videogames, Online, Social and Participatory media
Section B will cover the in-depth CSPs from the Videogames, Online, Social and Participatory media unit. These will require extended essay-based responses:
- Videogames: Lara Croft Go
- Videogames: Kim Kardashian Hollywood
- Online, Social and Participatory media: Zoella
Revision: top tips
The most important advice is simple: don't leave it to the last minute! There is too much information here to cram it in the night before so work an hour or two a day over the next two weeks to prepare for the exam. A couple of other words of advice:
- The new exams specify certain theories - so you need to make sure you know, understand and can apply the key theories we've learned this year. For example, Stuart Hall's Reception theory, Todorov or Propp's narrative theory etc.
- Textual analysis will definitely be part of the exam - so you need to make sure you can confidently apply media concepts and terminology (e.g. narrative, mise-en-scene etc.) to a variety of media texts.
- For longer answers and the Section B essay questions, you need to demonstrate you have opinions on the big media debates (representation, media effects, the impact of new technology etc.)
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