Friday, 3 May 2013

Past exams - The extracts

REPRESENTATION OF AGE:


REPRESENTATION OF DISABILITY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auSAGvpM7W8&feature=related

REPRESENTATION OF CLASS AND STATUS


REPRESENTATION OF GENDER


REPRESENTATION OF GENDER


REPRESENTATION OD SEXUALITY


REPRESENTATION OF REGIONAL IDENTITY

Thursday, 2 May 2013

Lesson on 2.5.13 and 3.5.13 - Representation of status/power and ethnicity

Status and Power in Spooks (series 4 episode 3):


Ethnicity in Hotel Babylon:

POST-LESSON: Here is an answer on the extract. It got 39/50 marks. Hotel Babylon g322 exemplar.pdf

And here is the examiner's report on the paper. It is full of tips regarding things to avoid and ideas to include in your answer. (From page 2 particularly)


Past papers and candidates' responses

January 2009 paper
TV Drama: Age (see exemplar below - ADDED: Embedded video at the bottom)
Industry: Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within a media area you have studied.
June 2009 paper
TV drama: Gender
Industry: How important is technological convergence for institutions and audiences within a media area which you have studied?
January 2010 paper
TV Drama: Ethnicity (exemplar answer here - 39/50)
Industry: "Media production is dominated by global institutions and services which sell their products and services to national audiences." To what extent do you agree with this statement?
June 2010 paper
TV Drama: Gender (see video at the bottom of this post - Primeval. I also gave you 2 exemplars on this one)
Industry: What significance does the continuing development of digital media technology have for media institutions and audiences?
January 2011: Gender again - paper not available but extract from Hustle.

Candidates' reponses - Age (Monarch of the Glen) January 2010 (Find examiner's comments right at the end of each document)
Candidate A:
TV Drama: High Level 3
Script January 09 Age Level 3 4
Candidate B:
TV Drama: low level 4
Film Industry: High level 3
Script Jan 09 4 and 3
Candidate C: That's what an E looks like (levels 1/2) Read carefully to avoid the vague comments made by this candidate. I read a lot of this in some of your practice tasks...
Examiner's Report on G322 TV Drama Unit (January 2010)

Primeval - exam text June 2010

More candidates' scripts including an A grade in this earlier post:
http://parkstvdrama.blogspot.com/2010/04/exemplar-answers.html