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March 10, 2025 Big Thian Leave a comment

This is a link to my Mock analysis.

QS	WWW	EBI	what to do to improve for the real exam.
1	–	learn more on signs and key terms. Learn how to analyse a closed study product.	Practice doing closed study questions again and learn more on signs and codes.
2	Understanding of the CSP.	Need incorporation of figure 1 and more key terms	Learn key terms related to the CSP.
3	Attempt at using key terms.	More detailed on Laura Melvey and how the male gaze links to CSP’s.	Look back on previous exams and questions with the male gaze and learn what they typically are actually asking you.
4	Understanding of Old Town road and some key terms.	Need to write more and learn more about Steve Neale’s theories.	Watch Mrs Fisher videos on his theories and other theorist to fully understand concepts
5	Understanding of what postmodernism is.	Learn the Hypodermic model and needle theory	Read about it. (read to switch up from the videos and a new way to get the content into my head).
6	Good understanding of the daily mail and how they use power, as well as links to theories.	More detail is needed in order to write more and not to waffle and go on tangents	Watch a video on how to write and structure answers better.
7	Understanding of blinded by the lights and who created it and what diversity is.	Not to go off on tangents and write about things that are unrelated. Use more facts, I.e data (quantitative and Qualitative)	Research specific data on blinded by the lights.

Mock Analysis

March 10, 2025 t dog Leave a comment

Questions	What went well?	What could be improved?	What I’m going to do to make improvements?
1	Good use of terminology (semiotic language) Appropriate theorists used
2	Good use of knowledge and facts. Great use of economic and political context	Read the question! Missed marks due to miss reading the question	Use a highlighter in the questions to make the key words stand out
3	Good use of theorists and good application	Add a conclusion	Go over more 9 mark practise questions
4	Clear structure and good use of terminology. In depth facts and statistics used.	more reference to the genre theory, potentially missed marks due to over analysing the close study products and not linking back to the questions	Revisit genre theory. Go over 20 mark questions and see where i’m missing marks. Add a question to give a clear understanding of the unit.
5	Good understanding of postmodernist terms.	Understand the term implosion. Go over hypodermic model theory and linking it back to a media product.	Make revision cards on postmodernist terminology.
6	Strong analysis and good understanding of the Daily Mail
7	Good understanding of media industries and contribution	Learn cultural industry terms by David Hesmondalgh: o cultural industries o commodification o convergence o diversity o innovation o conglomeration o vertical integration o cultural imperialism.	Make revision cards on key terms. Go over 20 mark structure.

overall = 66/84

NEA= 42/60

= 71 needed on paper 2 to secure an (A)

March 10, 2025 natedog Leave a comment

Questions	What went well?	What could be improved?	What I’m going to do to make improvements
1	Good use of the specific terms	Be more specific	Better understanding
2	Understood small parts of the music video	Clear understanding of csp and clear wording	Make specific notes for each csp
3	Good use of the theorists	Revisit the advert	Clearer notes regarding the advert
4	Choice of theorist was good	Better understanding of the music video	Re watch and make notes, include theorists
5	Understood the terminology a fair amount	Key words and models	Look over specific models used
6	Fairley good understanding of the Daily mail	Understand specific theorists	Go through topics and link with theorists
7	Good understanding of how bbl was produced	More terminology	Go over key terms

paper 1 mock reflection

March 10, 2025 mariia Leave a comment

Questions	What went well?	What could be improved?	What I am going to do to make the improvements
1 8/8	How different signs create the meanings of Christmas
2 9/12	good knowledge on economic ad political contexts used theorists	focus more on the question use more specific terminology	do more past papers on how different economic and political contexts influence different types of media revise ghost town
3 8/9	linked how feminist theorists relate to CSPs	write a more insightful conclusion to my point	revise the CSP in detail- create a mind map of key words, theorists and context
4 13/20	good conclusion of the reliability of genre theory	focus on the different aspects of Neale’s theory on genre more rounded judgements	revise specific theorists into more detail
5 2/6		learn the hypodermic needle theory
6 5/9	okay knowledge of the daily mail	know the contemporary and social cultural contexts and how newspapers include them use more specific terminology
7 11/20	good knowledge about diversity in film industry	know more about the industry no stats or facts link media theorists	revise the CSP industry know more facts and stats revise theorists to link to this

Mock Analysis

March 10, 2025 Shelby Leave a comment

Exam Reflection:

Questions	What went well?	What could be improved?	What I am going to do to make the improvements
1	Clear and good structure of theoretical framework.	Have a more consistent specific approach.	Reinforce ideas.
2	Good memory of ghost town.	Should have read the question better.	Take more time reading questions.
3	Good theory.	Better conclusion.	Practise questions.
4	Clear structure of multiple theory’s.	More terminology.	Revise key terms.
5	Clear and consistent.	Postmodernism.	Go over postmodernism terms.
6	Very clear and consistent.	Neaten my writeing.	Keep revising newspapers.
7	Good understanding.	More key terms.	Look over key terms.

Course Work Mark – 43/60

Paper 1 – 70/84

= 113

A = I need 70 marks in paper 2.

Mock Paper 1 review

March 10, 2025 Samuel Leave a comment

Questions	What went well?	What could be improved?	What am I going to do to make improvements?
1	Talked about the correct signs.	I would need to explain more about how the signs like to the question and use more terminology.	Revise media terminology and put them in context.
2	Good knowledge of ghost town	More analysis	Look at Ghost Town more.
3	Good background knowledge of Score	Add a conclusion.	Practice questions.
4	Good understanding of terminology	Create a better structure for my answer.	Review essays and create plans.
5	Fairly good understanding of terminology	Explained my answer better	Make notes on the terminology including examples.
6	Good understanding of Daily Mail.	Should have wrote more	I could develop my notes on The Daily Mail.
7	Good understanding of how blinded by the light was produced and distributed.	I should have created a better flow between my paragraphs and wrote more.	I could do this by practice questions.

Reflection of Feb Mock

March 10, 2025 vickie Leave a comment

Questions	What went well?	What could be improved?	What I am going to do to make the improvements
1	Use of subject specific terminology throughout. usage of theoretical framework	A Consistent highly appropriate use of subject specific terminology throughout more usage of theoretical framework More detailed analysis of product	Study semiotic and theories that explore semiotics, Roland Barthes. Do past questions Explore more theorists that talk or contribute to semiotics
2	Excellent knowledge and understanding of the influences of the economic and political contexts on media products A good use of appropriate terminology a good understanding of theoretical framework	A better understanding of terminology and theoretical framework	Do past questions that explore ghost town and revise all the contexts
3	A good analysis of the advert. an excellent judgments and conclusions. A detailed analysis of the advert	The analysis and theory applied to the advert. Analysis of advert could’ve been more in depth. More theoretical terms applied to advert.	Do more practice questions on Advert. Explore more theoretical terms targeted towards the advert. Explore more types of context of the advert.
4	Good use of theoretical framework. Application of knowledge and understanding creates a frame for the genre theory.	A more in depth application of genre theory. Exploring a minor group of theorists that also contribute or explore genre. A more consistent use of terminology	Practice questions, Revise the theory. Maybe use some quotes from theorist to support the argument. Evidence! Know the terms shown in the question in more depth, explore those terms.
5	Good knowledge of postmodernism and the technological terms applied to the theory. good knowledge o the hypodermic needle theory	A better understanding of postmodernism terms and theoretical framework. A better understanding of the hypodermic needle theory and an excellent and accurate example of the theory.	Practice questions. Research about the hypodermic model and examples. Understand postmodernism terms and how to apply them
6	A good usage of technological terms and theory. An excellent contextual usage. A good usage of social and cultural contexts to support argument	lack of talk about daily mails succession which could be used to support argument. Apply more theory knowledge	Do more research on the contexts behind the daily mail. Research and revise theory and theorist that you can apply to daily mail. Do practice questions!
7	A good understanding of diversity in production and application of theoretical framework. Frequent evaluation of argument.	A better understanding of production and distribution and theories behind it. More context. More knowledge of the production of the film. A better judgement and arguments to support my essay. A better usage of terminology.	Practice questions. Research more context about the movie. Research more about the production and distribution of the film. Research how the film maintained its diversity in distributions and production. Find arguments to support and deny statement.

Exam Reflection:

March 10, 2025 Marta Leave a comment

Questions	What went well?	What could be improved?	What I am going to do to make the improvements
1) 3/8	Mentioning of Santa, buildings, Manchester and Christmas as a whole	Being more specific, mention that it provides anchorage through the tag-line (“when it comes to Christmas, there’s no place like…Manchester”). Stating of Christmas then sharpens up the snow-covered iconic buildings adds relevance and familiar Christmas aesthetic.	Using three sets of signs, signs that constitute the Father Christmas, signs that combine as words providing anchorage, talk about semiotic vocabulary.
2) 6/12	Mention of conscious reproach to Thatcher’s Britain. Brief mention of post-industrial collapse of the economy everywhere else drew up lines of opposition across the 1980s.	Know a broader economical and political context in terms of the Close Study Products.	Know more about processes through which meanings are established through intertextuality.
3) 7/9	Mentioning Male Gaze. Objectification of Women.	Story of patriarchy and colonialism but not a serious one: it has never been other than (partly) ironic.	Talk about the obvious sexism of the ad is only partly historical, does engage in conversation between context of its production (1967) and of current reception (2020).
4) 8/20	Talking about Sub-genre/ summarising that and relating it to the music video.	the associations of the song and images with Hip Hop and Rap in my writing about the music video.	Could mention the protest element which has reference to the sixties/ also through Maya Angelou (“the caged bird sings for freedom”) to Billie Holiday (“southern trees we hung from”)
5.1) 2/3	Got Bricolage and Pastiche correct	Knowledge.	Revise what Implosion means, fits into context.
5.2) 2/3	Got 2/3 marks for the question.	Expand more/ give a more detailed response in the definition.	Go over the definition and memorise it more effectively.
6) 8/9	Explained what the newspaper is, what it discusses and historical, social and cultural contexts.	Briefly mentioned declining print sales for all newspapers	Mention their not-for-profit public funding, to media industries and their products
7) 16/20	impact of new technology cultural industries-diversity	improve writing about media organisations maintain, including through marketing	research context about it. understadning the framework around the media product.

Media Paper 1 reflection

March 10, 2025 Guyer H Leave a comment

Question	What went well?	What could be improved	What will I do to make improvements?
1	Good knowledge of theory ,applied well to question
2	Understanding of political and economic contexts	Apply the context to the texts more specifically	Learn how to refer back to the both products
3	Understood male gaze theory	Develop the analysis more specifically rather than making lots of small points	Practice similar questions on score and feminist critical thinking
4	Application of multiple theorists ideas to support my points	potential lack of knowledge of Old Town Road	Develop my understanding of old town road
5	Developed knowledge of all 3 terms	Was unsure of the hypodermic needle theory	Learn less commonly used media terms
6	Theories were well applied to a strong analysis
7	Thorough understanding of the process of production, distribution and how diversity occurs in these processes

Media paper 1 mock reflection

March 10, 2025 Yann Leave a comment

Questions	What went well?	What could be improved?	What I am going to do to make the improvements
1	Provided good analysis I think	Talk more about semiotics and Roland baths and the types of signs	Make sure I fully understand and am confident with semiotics
2	Talked about the economic influences of the media products	Compare and contrast them more also understand more about the political context of ghost town	Study more on the context on ghost town also maybe throw in a theorist next time
3	Good understanding of the male gazed and applying it to the Score advert	Focus on the ‘to what extent part of the question’ as I didn’t really focus on it	Make sure I focus on the whole of the question
4	Great knowledge and understanding of old town road thanks to the revision	A bit more focus/reference to the genre theory in my answer such as talking about ‘genre as a cultural category’	ensure I have full and in depth understanding of Steve Neale’s genre theory and genre as a whole so I can talk more confidently about it in my work
5	Answered 5.1 correctly	Knowing what the hypodermic needle theory is	Actually revise this theory because I completely forgot what it is
6	Great answer to the question nearly getting full marks	Now I think of it I should have referenced a theorist which talks about the effects on the audience such as the cultivation theory	Talk more about the theorists next time and maybe the daily mail in terms of industry
7	somewhat good understanding of the production of Blinded by the light	Talk about the culture industries and the impact of new technologies	Ensure I fully understand the question because I don’t really understand too well how the film industry demonstrates diversity in the distribution of a film