Year 12 exam LR

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

Q1 - good points on ideology 

Q2 - covered good points

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2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully, paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. Firstly, focus on the unseen question (Q1) and identify two points that you could have written in your answer.

• the positioning of character and mode of address can be interpreted as signifiers of race and

gender (the dominant white male, evasive black male, diminished female)

• the relative size of the figures in relation to the buildings signifies a super-human aspect to the characters, suggesting their omnipotence

3) Look at the indicative content for Q1 again and make a note of any theories or examples of media terminology you could have used in your answer.

Positioning

4) Now focus on the TV 25-marker. Use the mark scheme to note down:

1) three general comments on the TV industry and cultural/economic contexts:

- The significance of economic factors, including commercial and not-for-profit public

funding, to media industries and their products.

- Shift to self-scheduling – enabled by technology and cultural changes – away from

industry-controlled viewing.

- Rise of binge viewing and interactive response to programmes.

2) three points for Capital:

- The series was targeted at an older audience, with week-by-week scheduling, adapted

from a literary novel and minimal opportunities for interactivity – suggests the endurance of

traditional media strategies and the importance of defining types of audience in evaluating

shifts.

- Kudos, the independent producer of the series, specialises in TV series which can be sold

or remade for the US market, making it typical of contemporary media institutions which

operate globally rather than nationally – suggesting the shifting contexts a PSB now

operates in.

- Fremantle , Pivot TV (US) and BBC Worldwide all in deals to distribute the series globally.

3) three points for Deutschland 83:  

- It is a co-production of AMC Networks, SundanceTV (US) and RTL Television (Germany),

positioning it to exploit the national and global market – characteristic of a trend arguably

shaped by economic and cultural contexts.

- Distributed by Fremantle, a British production and distribution company, subsidiary of RTL

media, a global company which is designed to target an international audience –

characteristic of media companies’ responses to economic contexts.

- AMC and RTL were able to develop the series in the context of new opportunities for

distribution and exhibition – eg the Walter Presents platform in the UK, which is a subsidiary

of C4, exploiting broadcast and digital opportunities.

5) Finally, identify three things you need to revise for Media Paper 2 before your next assessment or mock exam.

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