LR Paper 1

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

Focus more on industry and explore into detail more for the 9 markers, revise more on radio.

Can talk about pastiche and postmodernism.

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Go to your Media teacher's Google Classroom and find the mark scheme and examiner's report uploaded. This is vital as the paper was an official exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce.

2) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify and points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme:

Q1: 5/8 

Q2: 10/12

Q3: 5/9

Q4: 15/20

Q5: 4/6

Q6: 5/9

Q7: 15/20

Additional points: Using Roland Barthes’ theory of semiotics, the National Trust advert “What will take your breath away?” can be analysed through denotation, connotation and myth. Denotatively, the advert shows images of British landscapes and historic sites. Connotatively, these suggest peace, escape and emotional fulfilment, reinforced by the slogan which implies awe and inspiration. This creates a myth that British nature and heritage are naturally restorative and meaningful, promoting the ideology that visiting National Trust sites is an essential and valuable experience.

3) Look at Question 4 - a 20-mark essay evaluating Judith Butler's gender is a performance theory. Write an essay plan for this question using the indicative content in the mark scheme and with enough content to meet the criteria for Level 4 (top level). This will be somewhere between 3-4 well-developed paragraphs plus an introduction answering the question planned in some detail.

Explore more into detail about Butlers ideas 

Talk about how score can also be mocking rather than promoting traditional gender stereotypes

• the way the media through re-presentation construct versions of reality.

• this question applies ‘Gender Trouble’ to the CSP Score in order to explore the validity of Butler’s ideas across fifty or so years

• Of course this isn’t the only reading and could be seen as simplistic and ‘tongue-in-cheek’: it might be read as a playful postmodern indication that patriarchy is a bit of a joke and all bets are now off.

• This is not what life was like in the sixties for men and women but it does, in a fairly crude way, help understanding of underlying currents and contemporary notions of gender fluidity and non-binary gender identities which, in Butler’s view, are desirable and inevitable.

• It also represents a ‘queering’ of this particular corner of representation which in Butler’s view is desirable and inevitable.

• It can be read as advocating a greater diversity in representations and understandings of gender but also keeping with traditional tropes around beauty.

Intro - answering questions

Paragraph 1 - Score reinforcing 

Paragraph 2 - Score subverting

Paragraph 3 - Sephora reinforcing 

Paragraph 4 - Sephora subverting

Short conclusion

4) Based on the whole of your Paper 1 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your summer exam Media revision timetable.

• Judith Butler
• Radio - especially Newsbeat
• more theorist knowledge 
• Knowledge outside of specification for question 5
• Sephora