Paper 1 mock exam LR

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Paper 1 mock exam LR

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

WWW: Ishmeet, a really strong section A! Your response on the unseen media product and Score CSP in relation to historical, social contexts was detailed but your Ghost Town response was brilliant! First 20 mark question was a good example of how to respond to validity of theory.

EBI: Some careless mistakes for section B e.g. Question 5.1/2. I also feel that your question 7 was not fully addressing the question. See mark scheme for indicative content. Also, use the extra pages when you run out of space.

Now read through the genuine AQA mark scheme. This is vital as the paper was an official exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce.

2) 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: 5/8 marks-- didn't mention enough about genre theory e.g. Neale repetition and difference. Could have added more about use of Daniel Craig (star) and James Bond (character) alongside references to spy/action genre. Could discuss Bond as its own genre due to longevity of franchise and the appeal of this to the watch company. 
  • Q2: 8/12 marks-- could have linked to decriminalisation of homosexuality and added more historical contexts points.  Could discuss Judith Butler’s ideas around the use of ‘parodic representation’.
  • Q3: 8/9 marks-- could have bring in social activism to combat Thatcher's Britain.
  • Q4: 15/20 marks--  The setting extends this a little by emphasising the natural-artificial, civilised-wild, controlled-uncontrolled.  The film itself offers colour-monochrome, moving image-still image, sound-silence, new stock-archive, past-present.
  • Q5: 3/6 marks-- could have added examples of textual poaching e.g. memes, fan fiction, parody images / video etc. 
  • Q6: 6/9 marks-- could have added how similar genre movie that was released near the time affected the success of BBTL-- the distributors spent a long time (arguably too long) on the festival circuit trying to publicise the film internationally and secure world-wide distribution deals which is perhaps why  the film is thought to have lost out at the box office to the thematically similar Yesterday (Boyle, 2019) which was released first.
  • Q7: 11/20 marks--  could have added ideas discussing audience expectation: people who listened to radio at the time arguably expected to be entertained or informed by content and placed trust in the producers to provide programming for a specific purpose which adhered to certain standards and conventions.

3) Look at Question 4 - a 20-mark essay evaluating Levi-Strauss's binary opposition theory. Write an 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 3-4 well-developed paragraphs plus an introduction answering the question planned in some detail.

  • The man provides a focus for a number of oppositions: male-female, masculine-feminine, clothed-unclothed, dominant-dependent, top-bottom. The setting extends this a little by emphasising the natural-artificial, civilised-wild, controlled-uncontrolled.
  • The content is founded on Black-White, freedom-constraint, dominance-dependency, straight-kinked, natural-artificial, superficial-profound, individual-collective, untouched-cosmetic, exotic-mundane, professional-home-made, individual-collective.
  • Could add some points about structuralism-- structuralists suggests that culture can be ‘read’ like a language, this is about encoding and decoding, the very process of signification and ultimately the ‘practice’ of ideology.

4) Based on the whole of your Paper 1 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your summer exam Media revision timetable.

  • go over radio topics
  • practise more exam questions and remembering to link back to the question!!
  • try include more media theorists to csps when analysing media product
  • revise media industries and key definitions!
  • go over BBTL

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