Your Exams
Component 2 – Key Media Concepts (Exam)
- Textual analysis of an unseen TV Drama Sequence (50%)
- Essay on the Music Industry (50%)
Component 4 – Critical Perspectives in Media (Exam)
- Evaluate your media production skills development
- Analyse your own media products using key concepts.
- Explore postmodern media.
“Hang on we haven’t finished, or indeed started, the evaluation questions yet! Just forget the exam for now Mr G & Mrs C,” I hear you implore!
“Ah ha!” we reply. “We had a plan all along!”
We have chosen all the briefs you have done this year to focus you on the music industry. Which is the topic in the second half of question 2 in Component 2 (Key Media Concepts).
Furthermore, we have already taught you everything you need to know to complete the first half of the final media exam, also known as Component 4 (Critical Perspectives).
So, when you are doing the Critical Creative Reflections you are also preparing for your exam! To prepare you for all this, throughout Year 12 & 13, we made you complete blog posts on:
- Media Language
- Representation / Star Image
- Genre
- Audience
- Narrative
…because, these concepts all appear in the exams!
We have made you do a range of tasks geared to help you understand and learn about media skills:
- use of digital technology
• creativity
• research and planning
• using conventions from real media texts.
All of these are skills that will come up in the exam
50% of Component 4 is about your ability to tell stories about your skill development and analyse your own production work as if it were a professional text!
‘Wax on, Wax off. Daniel-son’
…and when Mr Miaki says, “Look eye! Always look I.” He means, “IDEOLOGY” – YEAH BABY!
Coz that’s what Media Studies is about!
Go on, explain if you can…
