The Final (official) Lesson!

L.O. About 10,000 things

 Theorist game!!

In your team you have a theorist (or two) that you

are.

Your job is to find the quote that your theorist said

from around the room.

Once you have yours- come back, stick it on your

group sheet and wait for the rest of the group!

First team to have all theorists and theories

correctly linked wins.
 General Exam Tips
Do the postmodernism question first.
This ensures you give yourself
enough time to write about it in
depth.
However, you must be strict with
your timings one hour pomo, half
an hour 1A, half an hour 1B
 Postmodernism
You could be asked about any of the key
conventions but the question is likely to be fairly
general so play to your strengths

Ensure you include a variety of examples from

different media platforms

Ensure you include theorists and an understanding

of the debates surrounding this aspect as well as
historical and future implications
 MMORPG
Why is it postmodern?

What historical and future

implications can we link in with these
ideas?
 Basic run down of each
question
1a)
You will be asked to evaluate your development in
one of the areas below from AS to A2. You can
bring in any productions you have been involved in
but should focus on your course productions first:
Research and planning
Real media texts
Creativity
Digital technology
Post-production
 Structure for 1a
In each paragraph you should have:
P: A topic sentence- e.g. One element of research and
planning is.
E: An example from AS- e.g. In preparation we conducted
internet based research of
E: Analysis of this- e.g. This was limited as we found that
E: What you did in A2- e.g. As a result for my A2
production I instead
E: Analysis of this- e.g. This was more successful as it
allowed me to
L: Link- e.g. Overall I learned that institutional research is
best performed by
1b) You will be asked to analyse one
production in relation to one of the key
concepts:
Audience
Genre
Media terminology
Narrative
Representation
 Structure of a 1b) essay
You need to include:
An intro that defines the concept,
preferably using a quote from a
theorist, and relate it to your chosen
media type, i.e. Narrative is particularly
important in film openings because
Three/four paragraphs answering the
question with a variety of examples
and critics
 Structure of a paragraph
from 1b)
P: One element of the concept, e.g. We
built genre through the mise en scene
E: A specific example e.g. The specific
mise en scene choice we made was the.
E: How it creates meaning/is
understood in relation to your concept
e.g. This pushes the narrative on as
L: to audience/theorist/ other key
concepts e.g.
said that narrative