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Y12 Media exam: Paper 1 Learner response

1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to). An excellent, consistent exam - well done! Unseen text analysis / Q1 an area to work on for next year 2) Read  the mark scheme for this exam carefully , paying particular attention to the 'indicative content' for each question. This is some of the best analysis you can do as it gives you an idea of what the exam board is expecting. For your LR blogpost, identify  ONE  point you could have added for the first three questions in Section A: Q1 (unseen text) additional point/theory:  familiar tropes and imagery are used to engage with audience expectations around media products. The advert works by explicitly connecting the watch to these well-worn ideas with the notion of ‘difference’ perhaps coming from the unusual foregrounding of the watch in the image which is presumably a new model for the audience to desire. Q2 (unseen text and CSP) additional point/theory/CSP referenc...

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