Planning the perfect response using resources from the blog

Before you do anything

This task, that involves researching the industry context surrounding Les Revenants remains the most important thing that you need to complete! You've got to know this stuff, and it's all pretty easy to find!

Constructing a perfect answer

For this task, you will construct a plan to construct a 'perfect answer' to a past paper question or one that you have constructed yourself. This will be a perfect answer, because you will complete this plan completely open book. You don't even need to write this response, but it would be excellent revision!

This is also a great opportunity to learn what resources are hosted right here on the blog!

Step one - find a question or make your own

Click resources at the top of the page, then past papers to access the past papers. You may need to change the wording of some questions to make them relevant to Les Revenants, which is what you will be writing about today.

If you want to make a new question, find the revision checklist under resources. In fact, you should check this resource out anyway, because it has EVERY POSSIBLE QUESTION YOU COULD GET!!!!

Step two - underline key words and think about what the question is actually asking

If you would like some help on how to structure an exam response, you can find a YouTube video on exam structure linked from the index here

Step three - find the best possible examples to answer this question

You can find lots of resources for this in the following places:

• Your own notes remain the most important source of information!
• Under industries and TV you'll find an index of the work we have completed
  
  

These three posts from last week are PARTICULARLY useful:

• The representation of teenage girls in Les Revenants
• Representations of age and gender: Lena and Simon walk home
• Subverting representations of women - Julie

• Finally there are a few YouTube videos on key scene analysis that you can find linked from the main Media Focus page here

Step four - plan an excellent response

Use the scenes you have picked to plan an excellent response to the question you have selected. Remember, every paragraph should have a point, evidence, and then link back to the argument or point of view you made in the introduction. You're just writing a bullet point plan for this one, but after you've finished, it would be great to actually have a crack at answering the question under timed conditions!