Paper 1 mock exam learner response

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

• WWW
• A strong response for the Ghost Town Q on how youth is portrayed - lots of relevant examples.
• Your 20 mark responses are clear and address the focus of the Q - but just lacking enough detail/depth for top marks
• EBI
• For Q2, comparing the unseen product to score CSP - just go straight into analysis - some parts of your response are not totally necessary.
• Equally, for Q6 -on film CSP- more on specific marketing methods that were used. 

Now read through the genuine AQA mark scheme. This is vital as the paper was an official exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce.

2) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme:

Example: Q1: 5/8 marks

Additional points: didn't mention enough about genre theory e.g. Neale repetition and difference. Could have added more about use of Daniel Craig (star) and James Bond (character) alongside references to spy/action genre. Could discuss Bond as its own genre due to longevity of franchise and the appeal of this to the watch company. 

3) Look at Question 4 - a 20-mark essay evaluating Levi-Strauss's binary opposition theory. Write an essay plan for this question using the indicative content in the mark scheme and with enough content to meet the criteria for Level 4 (top level). This will be somewhere between 3-4 well-developed paragraphs plus an introduction answering the question planned in some detail.

• Thesis: Stating my opinion on how myths are and aren't communicated through binary oppositions
• Score hair cream:
• The man provides a focus for a number of oppositions: male-female, masculine-feminine, clothed-unclothed, dominant-dependent, top-bottom.
• Sephora:
• The content is founded on Black-White, freedom-constraint, dominance-dependency, straight-kinked, natural-artificial, superficial-profound, individual-collective, untouched-cosmetic, exotic-mundane, professional-home-made, individual-collective.

4) Based on the whole of your Paper 1 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your summer exam Media revision timetable.

• Film
• Practise unseen
• Structuralism
• media industries
• Radio