Year 13 AS re-sit class

Thanks to everyone who attended the first AS re-sit class on Monday. If you didn't, you need to make sure you're there on Monday at 3.15pm. Here's what you missed:


You MUST see Ms Cunningham to enter for the MEST1 exam in January and pay £18.80 by Thursday 18 October.


Know your enemy: the exam is on Wednesday 9 January (AM) and lasts two hours. The sections:

• Section A: Unseen material, four short-answer compulsory questions
• Section B: Choose ONE question from two and write an extended essay referring to your case study/studies

Some people expressed frustration with the case studies they worked on last year. Our advice is NOT to start a new case study (it would involve a huge amount of work) but instead choose one of last year's case studies (Coldplay or Super 8) and use the information on our exam blogs (look on your peers' blogs for resources if yours is looking thin - especially those that got an A!)

We watched a short clip from Die Hard 4.0 and answered four exam-style questions as a class. The questions were:

Media Forms
How does the sequence fit with the conventions of the Hollywood action genre?

Media Institutions
Why would Die Hard 4.0 appeal to studio executives at 20th Century Fox?

Media Audiences
How does the sequence attract a variety of audience demographics?

Media Representations
How is gender represented in the sequence?

If you'd like to have a go at answering these questions with the clip, stick around for five minutes at the end of Monday's revision session and watch the clip then.

See you Monday - make sure you're there at 3.15pm!