| 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 |
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2025 P1 Mock review
| questions | What went well? | What could be improved? | What I am going to do to make the improvements |
| 1 | Good understanding of the unseen, used a few terms and theories well | Utilise more theories that relate to media language and semiotic analysis | Revise and learn more about Roland Barthes and semiotic terms. |
| 2 | Good contextual analysis of Ghost Town, applied relevant theories. | Compare and contrast this to the figure 1. Use more subject specific terminology | Remember that Q2 is always a compare and contrast between CSP and unseen figure 1. read question in full. |
| 3 | Wrote enough applicable examples, good understanding of Laura Mulvey’s theory | Didn’t develope example enough, could’ve written a lot more in general | Give some push back to the theory, revise some examples of the CSP beforehand. |
| 4 | Had an alright understanding of sub-genre and hybridity, found applicable examples for them. | Didn’t write about cultural categories. | Revise Steve Neale’s theory of cultural categories in terms of genre. Also look at finding examples of this and other theories to the CSP prior to the exam. |
| 5 | Good understanding of Postmodernism and the hypodermic needle theory | Was slightly unsure on the term ‘implosion’ Unclear on which theorists linked to the hypodermic needle | Be more secure on postmodernism terms and theorists. |
| 6 | Good understanding of The Daily Mail’s and Trump’s political stances, as well as viewing the Daily Mail as an old media product, and how that affects audiences | Didn’t write detailed examples, or enough of them. | Look back at The Daily Mail CSP and become more confident on examples that can be used for analysis. |
| 7 | Good understanding of Blinded by the Light’s industrial background, and applied relevant theories from Hesmondalgh. | Wrote about media representation, losing time on empty marks | Revise the requirements for Paper 1 and it’s CSP’s |
Exam Reflection
Mock Exam Reflection
| Questions | What went well? | What could be improved? | What I am going to do to make the improvements |
| 1 | Question 1 went well because I used ideas of theorists and analysed the product rather than describing it. | further detail, include more ideas of theorists | Question 1 is unseen so I cannot revise specific products, however I can Look back over theorists and their ideologies in high detail as well as do many past papers, as I would not have seen the product. |
| 2 | not much, had a alright introduction with a few statistics and details | More writing, more detail, more info and theorists need to be used as well as contexts | Revise more on contexts as im not to keen on this topic, revise theorists ideology and look over csp. |
| 3 | Analysation of score | more info about laura mulveys gaze and how it links to the csp | Revise this topic in specific as well as look over csps in high detail |
| 4 | Good detail about the CSP itself with stats | Link it to the question, more about neale and how the csp links to his genre theory | Look over key theorists |
| 5 | I knew all three terms and their meanings | Did not know the theory asked about | Look over every theory in high detail ensuring marks if it does come up in exam |
| 6 | Good knowledge about the newspapers themselves | Not enough about contexts and etc. | look over different contexts and how different media forms can impact or reflect them. |
| 7 | Not enough writing, write more about csp, more about industry | Look over both the csp and the film industry in general to gain high detail about it. |