Mrs Downie GCSE Media

Tuesday, 5 May 2015

Exam feedback

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Year 11 Revision ahead of the exam

Revision Guide Completed

Task: Print out your revision guide and stick in your book or publish it to your blog.

Now you have printed out your own revision guide and stuck it into your book or published it on your blog, you are ready to tackle the exam paper as part of your revision. Keep learning the terms in your revision guide by reducing down the information, testing yourself or simply re-reading it (whatever method works for you).

What do I need to remember about the Exam Paper format?

Task: Read through the example exam paper so you understand the layout and what each question is going to ask for.

Textual Analysis section

You will watch a clip from an Action Adventure film in the exam. Make notes focusing on the things you will be writing about in the exam questions.

1. Action Adventure Genre.
Explain what are the conventions of Action Adventure films and how the clip illustrates them. Remember to use plenty of examples to support your answer.
Convention examples:

Hero and Villains
Conflict and Violence
Hero starts as the underdog
A 'damsel in distress' rescued by the hero
Jeopardy or peril
Narrative sequences and Action sequences

2. Textual Analysis or Film Analysis under four sub-headings

Soundtrack
Editing
Camerawork
Mise-en-scene

Discuss these, with examples and explain how they affect the reader.

3. Representation

Discuss how the characters are stereotypes of different groups of people. Maybe the stereotypes are not followed and you need to discuss why.

Appearance
Actions
Speech
Positive or Negative

Institution - Television Comedy

4a. Scheduling - when are the shows broadcast and why does this suit the audience?

4b. Audience Pleasures

Tuesday, 14 April 2015

Ingredients of Action Films

Action Adventure films rely on Action Sequences and a typical Adventure Narrative.

Action Sequences
Extended chases
Lots of high energy stunts
Lots of spectacular special effects
Gun battles and explosives
Fist or sword fights
Series of spectacular crashes
Daring rescues, which succeed in the nick of time

Adventure Narrative
Main character on some sort of quest or mission
Dramatic discoveries
Main character falls in love with a beautiful woman
Main character on the side of good
Main character has to overcome against seemingly impossible odds
Main character has to defeat villain of some sort
A sidekick, who helps the main character

Y11 Exam Revision Guide

You need to create a revision guide to prepare for the Textual Analysis exam. Look at the following headings and create a page to add to your guide for each one.

Conventions of Action/Adventure films

Protagonist - Hero

Antagonist - Villain

Conflict is resolved through violence

Good Vs Evil

Film Analysis

Camerawork
Editing
Mise-en-scene
Sound

Representation

Gender
Age
Authority