May 2021 mock exam
Which will follow structure of Media 1 Paper
CSP’s (potentially) in exam
- Tomb Raider
- Metroid
- Maybelline
- Score
- Blinded by the Light
- Ghost Town
- Letter to the Free
We have already taken an unseen ‘mock’ on the TV CSP so THIS WILL NOT FEATURE IN YOUR MOCK.
- TV (Either Capital and Deutschland 83 OR Witnesses and The Missing OR No Offence and The Killing)
Key Theories
- Language of Print Productions
- Language of Moving Image Productions
- Theory of Semiotics (Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, C S Pierce)
- Theories and concepts of Representation (David Gauntlet)
- Feminist Critical Thinking (Judith Butler, Laura Mulvey)
- Audience Theories (active / passive, 2 step flow Paul Lazarsfeld, Uses and Gratifications McQuail, Blumer, Brown et al)
- Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci) culture as a site of political resistance
- Postcolonialism, The ‘Other’ (Paul Gilroy, Edward Said, Jacques Lacan)
- Narrative Theories (Todorov, Freytag, Propp, Levi-Strauss, Chatman, Barthes)
- Genre Theories (Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz)
- Key terms for Industry and Business
- Media as a ‘risky business’ (David Hesmondhalgh)
- Theory of Public Service Broadcasting (Curran and Seaton)