Homework for this week

Please complete the following two tasks, started in class, and be prepared to discuss them first lesson next week. You can work in pairs if you want to, but you both need to have written responses:

Task 1 : Fact Finding

One of the first groups to draw attention to the politics of representation in the media were the feminists of the late 1960s and 1970s, who pointed out the limited range of representations of women in the media.

What were their key arguments about the representations of women in the media, and the impact this had on the perception and role of women in society?

Task 2: Feminist Theory

Laura Mulvey’s (1975) influential work ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ argued that mainstream Hollywood film was the product of a male-dominated and controlled industry.

What films formed the basis of her research?

What were her findings?

Explore what the following terms mean :

Voyeurism

Narcissism

Scopophilia

Year 13 Homework

Welcome Back everyone.

As I said in the lesson, we are going to be working on Media and Collective Identity for this term and specifically on representations of women in the media. Please complete the following task for Monday and be prepared to discuss it:

Identify two representations of women in the media, one positive and one negative. Write at least 400 words for each on the following:

• what the representation is
• how it was created
• what your own opinion is on it

Due Monday 12th September.

Year 13 Revision

There's a revision pack online here that has some useful stuff in it - especially the grade-related glossary of terms at the end:

http://www.slideshare.net/andywallis/a2-media-studies-revision-pack

Year 12 & 13 Exemplar Answers

On the following link you will find exemplar answer for both the two AS questions and the two A2 questions. These also include the examiners' comments and the mark schemes. It would be very useful for you to benchmark your own work against the Level 3 and Level 4 answers:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/179236-example-candidate-answers-from-june-2013.pdf

Revision Resource

Further to all the resources I've put on the student area of the network, this website covers all the key media concepts you need to know for the exam:

http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevkeyconcepts/

Year 12 Revision

All my teaching and revision materials from the whole year, plus extras are on the student network. Please download onto memory stick the ones you need and see me for extra 1:1 teaching after school if you feel you need it on any particular area.

Year 12 Institutions & Audiences Exam Preparation

Here are some past questions on this half of the paper; for each one you need to make detailed reference to the case study material to support the points made in your answer (remember we've studied film as our media area):

June 2014

"The increase in hardware and content has been significant in recent years. Discuss the effect this has had on institutions and audiences in the media area you have studied."

June 2013

"Evaluate the role of digital technologies in the marketing and consumption of products in the media area you have studied"

January 2013

"What impact does media ownership have upon the range of products available to audiences in the media area you have studied?"

June 2012

"Cross-media convergence and synergy are vital media processes in the successful marketing of media products to audiences. To what extent do you agree with this statement in relation to your chosen media area?"

Your task is to do further research into the production, marketing and distribution of films that can be applied to these questions. Contemporary examples might be Disney's purchase of both Marvel and Lucasfilm to create the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the new Star Wars films. Also look at the synergy used with these products.

You could also find examples of how films are distributed after cinema release, focusing on how streaming, Netflix, Sky, etc are taking over from sales of DVDs and Bluray.