When you come back after the Easter holiday, you will have just over four weeks until the exam. To put it bluntly,
you need to revise over the Easter holiday.
A-levels are unlike GCSEs in the sense that you cannot 'blag' them. You will be expected to refer to three
different examples in both the
representation and
audience questions. These examples must be
detailed and
relevant. You must also have a definite
point of view.
Revision should be as varied as possible to keep things interesting. There are other posts on revision on this blog, so we won't go into details here, but an excellent way of revising is to take a
past paper question, make a
detailed plan, and then complete a
timed response. You can email your answer to your teacher for feedback.
Some of these questions are more straightforward than others. For the representation questions, you may find that we haven't covered this aspect of representation yet. After Easter, we'll be finishing off with
ethnicity, issues and
events, so you might want to leave these one's until later!
Audience questions
- With reference to your own detailed examples, explore what influences how audiences or users respond to media texts.
- With reference to your own detailed examples, explore how audiences are categorised by the producers of media texts.
- With reference to your own detailed examples, explore the ways in which media texts are constructed to target audiences.
- Discuss how media texts attract different audiences. Refer to your own detailed examples
- With reference to your own detailed examples, explore the ways in which producers position their audiences.
Representation questions
- Using your own detailed examples, explore representations of ethnicity in the media today.
- Using your own detailed examples, explore the representation of gender in the media today.
- Using your own detailed examples, explore the representation of two issues in the media today.
- With reference to your own detailed examples, explore the different representations of young people in the media today.
- With reference to your own detailed examples, explore the different representations of men in the media today.