| 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. |
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Media Paper 1 reflection
| 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
| 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 |
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. |
Post Mock Exam
Please check your emails every day. Please upload any work that you have been set to the blog.
Monday 10th
- Go to the media classroom and retrieve you mock paper 1 (they are in a box by your other essays)
- Go through your paper with reference to the mark scheme that I have attached
- Complete the table below and upload it into a new post on your blog
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