The Easter holidays are a critical time for revision and final coursework improvements.
This is the time to be revising the exam topics, practising questions and making any final improvements to your production work. It's also important to have a break too! Make sure you give yourself a few proper days off amongst the school work.
Coursework deadline
The coursework deadline is Friday 21 April - all details on this blogpost here. Please remember that although the production work is due after Easter your Statement of Intent cannot be changed after Friday 31 March so whatever we have on that date will be your final Statement of Intent.
Exam revision links
Here's what you need to revise with links to the original blogposts:
Media Paper 1 - Monday 22 May (afternoon)
Section A: Language and Representation
Unseen analysis
- Revise media language and representations - including theory - as well as looking back at your assessment LRs across the course. Many of these had an unseen element so look at the mark schemes and feedback to help prepare for this question.
- MIGRAIN index is here.
- Original lesson slide PDFs can be found on Google Drive here (you'll need your Greenford login to access).
Advertising and Marketing
- CSPs: Score hair cream and Maybelline That Boss Life.
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
Music Video
- CSPs: Letter to the Free and Ghost Town
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
Film Industry
- CSP: Blinded By The Light
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
Radio
- CSPs: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat and War of the Worlds (1938).
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
Newspapers
- CSPs: The Daily Mail and the i newspaper and websites.
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
Media Paper 2 - Tuesday 6 June (afternoon)
Unseen text analysis
- Revise media theories for this question - the question often asks you to apply a theory to an unseen text.
- MIGRAIN index is here.
- Original lesson slide PDFs can be found on Google Drive here (you'll need your Greenford login to access).
- CSPs: Capital and Deutschland 83.
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
- CSPs: Men's Health and Oh Comely.
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
- CSPs: Teen Vogue and The Voice.
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
- CSPs: Tomb Raider Anniversary, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and The Sims FreePlay.
- Final index is here.
- You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.
Revision links, resources and guidance
We've got plenty of resources to help you with your revision and preparation for the upcoming exams.
Here are some sample questions and answers we've worked on in exam revision lessons in previous years. We'll be adding to this document in our revision lessons after Easter but you may want to look through this for exemplar answers and help revising. Note that you'll need your Greenford Google login for this resource as it is only for GHS Media students.
We also gave you a paper copy of the Theoretical Perspectives resource which covers all the theories in the A Level Media specification. Let us know if you didn't get one!
Finally, here's a short blog on what makes a good flashcard - always useful to get top tips on effective revision techniques.
Walk-and-talk Paper 1
As promised, we'll be doing a walk-and-talk mock exam to practice the timing and style of questions for Paper 1. This will be in the second week back after Easter so be prepared!
Good luck with your revision!
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