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| It's time to get very familiar with the A-level media studies revision guide! |
While you engage in your learning conversation with your teacher via Teams this week, you will use the 260 minutes you are not talking to your teacher to revise and prepare for your assessments. Here's a list of things you could do. No, not all of them. Pick and choose, and if you think of anything that's not n this list, just do that instead. Be honest with yourself about what's going to give you the biggest improvements, but make sure you use this time to it's full potential.
One thing though: please do not see this list as being 'hints' on what may or may not come up in any assessments!
- Read through the blog, and make sure you know where everything is. This is ridiculously important
- Revise everything. Yes, everything! Maybe this one is too big for a bullet point. Sorry
- Complete a past paper question and submit them to your teacher
- Find a music video or advert, and use the textual analysis toolkit to create a detailed breakdown of it
- Download the revision guide, and actually read it
- Draw a 'map' of media studies, and work out what industries go in to component one, and what industries go in to component 2
- Create flash cards for the nineteen key theorists
- Come up with an example of a proairetic code, a referential code, a hermenuetic code and a symbolic code from Humans
- Watch this video on the key theorists while you make lunch
- Find a newspaper, and compare the front page to the front page of The Times
- Go on the Adbusters website and make notes on the magazine's brand identity
- Pick a Media Focus video and watch it
- Watch the film trailer to Black Panther and make notes on how it ensured financial success
Keep checking back, because we may add stuff as the week goes on!