Paper 2 mock exam: learner response

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

D=35

2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your target grade for A-Level Media in this paper? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in Paper 2?

No, 17 more marks to achieve target grade 

3) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from your the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme.
 
5/9
- a range of examples of narrative conflict are constructed – male/female,
old/young, passengers/crew – which will propel the action
- enigmas are constructed through the conflicts, direct mode of address and
the stormy weather (danger ahead)

10/25
- I needed to focus more on the way events, issues, individuals (including self-representation) and social
groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of
selection and combination
- the way the media through re-presentation construct versions of reality
- the processes which lead media producers to make choices about how to
represent events, issues, individuals and social groups

11/25
- I needed to focus more on language and representations, How developing technologies affect media language.
- How audiences respond to and interpret the above aspects of media
language.
- The way media language incorporates viewpoints and ideologies.
Representations
- The way events, issues, individuals (including self-representation) and social
groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of
selection and combination.
- How audiences respond to and interpret media representations.
- The effect of social and cultural context on representations.

4) Look at question 4 - the synoptic question. How many of the four key concepts did you cover in your answer? Write a new essay plan for this question using the indicative content in the mark scheme and taking care to include at least three of Language - Representations - Audience - Industries. You can use bullet points but make sure you offer enough content to meet the criteria for Level 5 (top level). This will be somewhere between 3-4 well-developed paragraphs planned in some detail.

I included audience and industry but needed more language and representation like • How developing technologies affect media language.
 How audiences respond to and interpret the above aspects of media
language.
The way media language incorporates viewpoints and ideologies.
Representations
The way events, issues, individuals (including self-representation) and social
groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of
selection and combination.
 How audiences respond to and interpret media representations.
 The effect of social and cultural context on representations. 

5) Based on the whole Paper 2 Learner response, plan five topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your Easter Media revision timetable.

Questions focussing on social and cultural contexts, Gq and the Gentlewoman, Sims free play and revision of theories linking to these CSPs

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