G322 - Key Media Concepts

Today we are learning:

What is expected in the exam

What representation is and recapping ideas and
theories
 G322 - Key media concepts
• 2 hour examination
• 30 minute TV Drama Extract
• 45 minute analysis (representing
something and using media language)
• 45 minute institutions and audiences
question
 Question 1
• Extract from contemporary British TV
Drama
• Variety of genres
• Representation of range of social groups:
Gender, Ethnicity, Class, Sexuality,
Disability, Age or Regionality
• Textual analysis of moving image: Editing,
Camera, Sound and Mise-en-scene
 How it is Marked....
• Explanation, analysis and argument -
20 marks
• Use of examples - 20 marks
• Use of terminology - 10 marks
Things the Exam Board are
looking for:
• Use of media terminology/vocabulary
• Move from the description of key technical
areas to analysis of how representations
are constructed. (link them)
• Cover all 4 technical aspects in the
discussion of representation
• Discuss editing and sound, just as much as
mise-en-scene and camera
• Relate your answers to the clip
 Question 2
• You will answer a question on the British Film Industry
• Case Study of Warp films compared to USA
• Be familiar with:
• The issues raised by media ownership in contemporary media practice
• The importance of cross media convergence and synergy in production,
distribution and marketing
• The technologies that have been introduced in recent years at the levels of
production, distribution, marketing and exchange.
• The significance of proliferation in hardware and content for institutions and
audiences.
• The importance of technological convergence for institutions and audiences
• The issues raised in the targeting of national and local audiences (specifically
British) by international or global institutions
• The ways in which your own experiences of media consumption illustrate wider
patterns and trends of audience behaviour.
 How it is marked.....
• Explanation, analysis and argument -
20 marks
• Use of examples - 20 marks
• Use of terminology - 10 marks
 What the exam board are
looking for:
• Use of media vocabulary
• Use of examples to support points -
from films you have studied
• Avoid historical biographies
• Factual Accuracy
• Contemporary Media - up to date info.
• Time management
 G322 Sections
You will be taught Section A - Representation by
Miss Peacock

You will be taught Section B - Institutions and

Audiences by Mr Claydon

Revision sessions on Monday and Tuesday nights

will cover both sections.