End of Year 1 exam

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

WWW: Abdul, good attempt at considering contexts how TV dramas reflect time of their productions
Next steps: 
1) Write a paragraph for Q1.3 on how HDM targets family audiences successfully
2) Complete LR blog tasks

2) Look at the mark scheme document linked above. Question 1.1 asks about mise-en-scene. What do we use to remember mise-en-scene? Give one example answer from the clip too - you'll find example answers in the mark scheme.

CLAMPS: Costume, Lighting, Actor placement/movement, make-up, props, setting.
Example - Will’s costume – makes him look like he is from our world

3) Question 1.2 asks about narrative features in the extract. Look at the mark scheme to pick out three possible answers for this question. 

• Todorov (equilibrium): The empty city creates a sense of disequilibrium – that something has gone wrong and needs to be repaired or at least understood by the characters.

• Barthes (enigma and action codes): Action codes – the music, the chase scene, the confrontation between the children. Enigma codes: why is the city empty? Who are they chasing? What do the Spectres look like and is Will in danger? Key lines of dialogue: “Where are the grown-ups?”; “Since the attack, Spectres are everywhere”.

• Binary opposition: Lyra and Will are presented as binary opposites to the other two children. The lack of grown-ups creates a sense of young/old binary opposition (particularly as children are not in danger from Spectres).

4) Now focus on Question 2 - the 20 mark essay. Use the mark scheme to pick out one way Doctor Who reflects 1963 and one way His Dark Materials reflects 2020. 

• Traditionally, Doctor was a white male, most often with a younger female companion, reflecting and reinforcing traditional gender roles of the times, with the man as powerful and in control and the woman as helper. Women’s helper role often been to provide an emotional, empathetic side to the programme. Reinforcing the idea that men are active, action-centred while women are more passive, emotional and sensitive
• The advent of satellite TV, digital TV, online TV means that there are many more channels available and more ways to access TV. His Dark Materials reflects the global nature of the TV industry as a BBC and HBO co-production with both British and American stars (e.g. Lin Manuel Miranda). Modern TV dramas often have big budgets and rival Hollywood for stars and production values.

5) Reflect on your overall work and exam performance this year. What three things do you need to work on or revise in Media for Year 11? 

1. I need to try and answer with more examples and evidence of narrative features.
2. Respond to the question by adding more arguments e.g. Arguments for how successful HDM was at targeting family audience.
3. Answer by adding more context.

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