LR - April PPE
1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).
WWW: Some of the points using media terminology well
EBI:
2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your target grade for A Level Media? If not, how many additional marks do you need to achieve your target grade in this paper?
I needed 55 more marks to get to my target grade but I hope for an A.
We don't know exactly what grade boundaries AQA will set as this is a new specification. These are the boundaries we've used, based on last year's A Level exam but reduced slightly to account for the new specification (out of 84):
A* = 78; A = 68; B = 56; C = 44; D = 32; E = 21.
Now read through the AQA mark scheme. This is vital as the paper was an official specimen exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce. The original question paper is here if that is helpful too.
3) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme:
Q1: 4/8 marks
Additional points: I focused more on Values rather than specific Ideologies so I missed out on the hierarchical aspect of the poster which conveys the ideology that men are typically more successful than women.
Q2: 4/12
Additional points: I missed out on the camparison aspect and didn't compare the two too much as both adverts represent masculinity and femininity to a mixed gender target audience. I also missed out on Social and Cultural contexts around such as issues likecensorship (in this case, advertising standards) may impact on the creation of products and the way in which representations of gender are created and received.
Q3: 4/9
Additional points: I focused on textual analysis rather than encoding and decoding as the question suggested for the desirability connotes power and dominance in society which is linked to a fantasy about the past.
Q4: 5/20
Didnt write enough relevant content, could have mentioned Billie Jean is a product of white dominated industry – the video could be interpreted as way of representing that inequality (which Black Atlantic culture is a response to), the reinterpretation of white cultural references through a black star raises questions about the representation of identity which could be interpreted as displacing while historical dominance.
And for Common's the culture of the Black Atlantic is a result of the slave trade; Letter to the Free explicitly references the history of the slave trade in the lyrics and imagery, the diversity of the style and imagery of Letter to the Free could be read as transcending
a specific culture – the nature of the lyrics are an appeal to people of colour beyond
national borders.
Q5: 4/4.
Additional points; N/A
Q6: 0/9 [Didn't do]
Additional points: The availability of non-regulated broadcasts via the internet poses a challenge both for the regulator and the regulated radio broadcasters, the demands of PSB regulation mean Radio 1 must provide educational and socially useful broadcasting as demonstrated by this programme.
Q7: 0/20 [Didn't Do]
Additional points: the definition of groups is likely to be wide and could for example include groupings by gender, nationality, religion, ethnicity, age, race and class. Responses which consider less clearly defined groups such as politicians, the elite etc are also valid. Any other group which is clearly defined in the response should also be accepted.
How media representations convey values, attitudes and beliefs about the world and
how these may be systematically reinforced across a wide range media representations, the way events, issues, individuals and social groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of selection and combination.
4) Choose your weaker of the two 20-mark questions. Write a full essay plan for this question using the indicative content in the mark scheme and with enough content to meet the criteria for Level 4 (top level). This will be somewhere between 4-6 well-developed paragraphs planned in some detail.
Q4:
Into: Define Black Atlantic and briefly apply it to both CSP's, define the theory with brief examples.
Letter to The Free: may seem to more obviously validate the theory but it could also be argued that similar ideas about cultural hybridity are apparent in theories of postmodernism. theories of the black Atlantic culture may not be specifically relevant to Billie Jean – it could or could not be seen as a product of the black diaspora. Letter to the Free references a range of cultural styles – artistic, experimental, - not conventionally associated with African American musical styles. the diversity of the style and imagery of Letter to the Free could be read as transcending a specific culture – the nature of the lyrics are an appeal to people of colour beyond national borders.
Billie Jean: is a product of white dominated industry – the video could be interpreted as way of representing that inequality (Possible link to Common's). Billie Jean, in its use of references to a range of popular culture – particularly Hollywood genres such as film noir – is more linked to white rather than African American culture.
5) Based on the whole of your Paper 1 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your Easter Media revision timetable.
WWW: Some of the points using media terminology well
EBI:
I needed 55 more marks to get to my target grade but I hope for an A.
We don't know exactly what grade boundaries AQA will set as this is a new specification. These are the boundaries we've used, based on last year's A Level exam but reduced slightly to account for the new specification (out of 84):
A* = 78; A = 68; B = 56; C = 44; D = 32; E = 21.
Now read through the AQA mark scheme. This is vital as the paper was an official specimen exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce. The original question paper is here if that is helpful too.
3) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme:
Q1: 4/8 marks
Additional points: I focused more on Values rather than specific Ideologies so I missed out on the hierarchical aspect of the poster which conveys the ideology that men are typically more successful than women.
Q2: 4/12
Additional points: I missed out on the camparison aspect and didn't compare the two too much as both adverts represent masculinity and femininity to a mixed gender target audience. I also missed out on Social and Cultural contexts around such as issues likecensorship (in this case, advertising standards) may impact on the creation of products and the way in which representations of gender are created and received.
Q3: 4/9
Additional points: I focused on textual analysis rather than encoding and decoding as the question suggested for the desirability connotes power and dominance in society which is linked to a fantasy about the past.
Q4: 5/20
Didnt write enough relevant content, could have mentioned Billie Jean is a product of white dominated industry – the video could be interpreted as way of representing that inequality (which Black Atlantic culture is a response to), the reinterpretation of white cultural references through a black star raises questions about the representation of identity which could be interpreted as displacing while historical dominance.
And for Common's the culture of the Black Atlantic is a result of the slave trade; Letter to the Free explicitly references the history of the slave trade in the lyrics and imagery, the diversity of the style and imagery of Letter to the Free could be read as transcending
a specific culture – the nature of the lyrics are an appeal to people of colour beyond
national borders.
Q5: 4/4.
Additional points; N/A
Q6: 0/9 [Didn't do]
Additional points: The availability of non-regulated broadcasts via the internet poses a challenge both for the regulator and the regulated radio broadcasters, the demands of PSB regulation mean Radio 1 must provide educational and socially useful broadcasting as demonstrated by this programme.
Q7: 0/20 [Didn't Do]
Additional points: the definition of groups is likely to be wide and could for example include groupings by gender, nationality, religion, ethnicity, age, race and class. Responses which consider less clearly defined groups such as politicians, the elite etc are also valid. Any other group which is clearly defined in the response should also be accepted.
How media representations convey values, attitudes and beliefs about the world and
how these may be systematically reinforced across a wide range media representations, the way events, issues, individuals and social groups (including social identity) are represented through processes of selection and combination.
4) Choose your weaker of the two 20-mark questions. Write a full essay plan for this question using the indicative content in the mark scheme and with enough content to meet the criteria for Level 4 (top level). This will be somewhere between 4-6 well-developed paragraphs planned in some detail.
Q4:
Into: Define Black Atlantic and briefly apply it to both CSP's, define the theory with brief examples.
Letter to The Free: may seem to more obviously validate the theory but it could also be argued that similar ideas about cultural hybridity are apparent in theories of postmodernism. theories of the black Atlantic culture may not be specifically relevant to Billie Jean – it could or could not be seen as a product of the black diaspora. Letter to the Free references a range of cultural styles – artistic, experimental, - not conventionally associated with African American musical styles. the diversity of the style and imagery of Letter to the Free could be read as transcending a specific culture – the nature of the lyrics are an appeal to people of colour beyond national borders.
Billie Jean: is a product of white dominated industry – the video could be interpreted as way of representing that inequality (Possible link to Common's). Billie Jean, in its use of references to a range of popular culture – particularly Hollywood genres such as film noir – is more linked to white rather than African American culture.
5) Based on the whole of your Paper 1 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your Easter Media revision timetable.
- Social and Regulatory media
- The I newspaper / The Daily Mail newspaper
- Stuart Hall (All Theories)
- Feminist Theory
- Social and Ideological Contexts (All CSP's)
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