End of Year 1 exam learner response

1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).
WWW:

• You start pretty well in the opening questions, just lacking a little question focus which is an exam technique issue and easily improved.

EBI:

• However, the rest of the exam is concerning. Nothing for 20-mark music video question, very little for 25 mark TV Question. This is over half the paper and suggests a lack of knowledge/revision.
• Much more detailed reference to CSPs required.
• Revision theories and terminology.

2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully, paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. This is some of the best learning you can do all year as it gives you an idea of what the exam board is expecting. For your LR blogpost, identify ONE point you could have added for the first three questions in Section A:

Q1 additional point/theory: Intertextuality.

Q2 additional point/theory/CSP reference: Bell Hook's 'Normalised traumatisation'

Q3 additional point/theory/CSP reference: Van Zoonen sees gender as negotiated and dependent on social and historical context. She wrote that the meaning of gender is a “discursive struggle and negotiation, the outcome having far-reaching socio-cultural implications.”

3) The final question in Section A was a 20-mark essay that required an extended response containing a coherent argument. Using the suggested content in the mark scheme, write anessay plan containing five paragraphs/points that answer the music video and postmodernism question.

• Introduction.
• Billie Jean's music video is an example of bricolage.
• Billie Jean's narrative links with the lyrics an allegations in newspapers.
• Common- letter to the free editing and you know.
• Common- the black box, the connotations of it.
• Conclusion.

4) Section B began with two questions testing your knowledge of industry terminology. Make sure you know the answers to these (get the answers from the mark scheme if you have to):

Two benefits of vertical integration: Vertical integration allow audience to lower costs and higher profits, there is a greater control of the production process.

Definition of diversification: Diversification is when a media company branches out into a different area of the media industries.


5) Question 8 (TV industry) was arguably the hardest question on the exam. Write a new paragraph that answers the question referring to either Capital or Deutschland 83 and the global TV industry. Use the indicative content in the mark scheme to help you.
Capital is a reflection of the global nature that reflects London. Capital is a British TV drama series. Capital is the 'state-of-the-nation' drama. That is aimed at mostly the British BBC audience. Alternatively, some of the issues taken on by the drama could be seen as global. this would be through the financial crisis that the country is having. The houses prices are increasing. Capital was distributed by Fremantle Media, an international distributor that is part of the RTL group conglomerate.