Tuesday, 8 December 2009



To help prepare for the exam make sure you know what the key terms means and you are able to provide an example. Complete the mind-map and practice writing paragraphs on each of the key concepts/terms.

Music Industry Revision - Synergy



To help prepare for the exam research another example of Sony's synergy strategy.

Saturday, 5 December 2009

Highbrow TV Viewing - The Bill. Watch the opening 5/6 minutes of this extract. How do the four technical areas contribute to the construction of gender in the extract? This is an activity you can do outside of lesson time and past on to me to mark.

This clip includes the Monarch of the Glen extract that was used in the January 2009 exam and which we studied in class. On the OCR Virtual Event website there are links exemplar answers. As an additional activity have another go at discussing the representation of age in the extract. The exam extracts appears two minutes into the clip.
The below website has been set up by OCR. It contains lots of learning resources for Media Studies. In the A Level section, if you go to 'View all Key Documents' it takes you to OCR's website. Here if you scroll down to 'Support Materials' there are exemplar answers from Jan 2009 and June 2009 exams. There's stuff on the TV Drama exam extract (Monarch of the Glen), however all the Institutions and Audiences scripts seem to be on Film/Magazine/Gaming and not Music. Nevertheless this still gives you a chance to look essays of different standards:

www.virtualmediastudies.com



Tuesday, 1 December 2009



How is disability represented in the extract? Remember to focus on how camera, sound, editing and mise-en-scene contribute to the representation.