Easter revision links and tips

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 19 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 20 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.
• For the unseen question, revise our work on Media codes and reading an image from Year 12. 
• MIGRAIN index from Year 12 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 Sephora Black Beauty Is Beauty.
• Final index is here.
• You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.

Music Video

• CSPs: Old Town Road and Ghost Town
• Final index is here.
• You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.

Section B: Industry and Audience

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).
• You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here.

Newspapers

• CSPs: The Daily Mail and the Guardian newspaper and websites.
• Final index will appear here when posted.
• You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here - to be updated! 

Media Paper 2 - Tuesday 4 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). 

Television

• CSPs: Capital and Deutschland 83.
• Final index is here.
• You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here. 

Magazines

• CSPs: GQ and The Gentlewoman.
• Final index is here.
• You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here. 

Online, Social and Participatory Media

• CSPs: Zendaya and The Voice.
• Final index is here.
• You can find the original lesson slide PDFs on Google Drive here. 

Videogames

• CSPs: The Sims FreePlay and Horizon Forbidden West.
• 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.

You'll be given eight full practice papers to take away for Easter - four Paper 1 and four Paper 2. Make sure you collect those from your exam teacher.

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 many of the CSPs have changed so we'll be updating these after Easter. You'll also 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!

On the subject of theories, we've collated all of Media Magazine's Theory Drop articles on the named theories into one PDF document. It's a great way to revise the theories - remember AQA's suggestion that for each named theory you create a bullet point summary followed by a table of reasons to agree/disagree with the key ideas. You'll need your Greenford Google login for the theory drop link.

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!