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