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Y12 Media exam: Paper 2 Learner response

  1) Type up your feedback in full (you do not need to write the mark/grade if you do not wish to). WWW - Good understanding of broadcasting remits and source of key issues/ change EBI - include more specfic industry information ad the difference ways audience engage with the products 2) Read the mark scheme for this exam carefully (posted on your exam teacher's Google Classroom), paying particular attention to the the 'indicative content' for each question. Firstly, focus on the unseen question and identify two aspects of the poster that you could have written about in your answer.  Talked about ideology, as it wasn't include in my answer More examples such as the buildings are shaped as guns 3) Look at the indicative content for Q1 again and make a note of any theories or examples of media terminology you could have used in your answer. Could of used terminology which could of used the key terms  use the underlying values / beliefs of what is being promoted 4) Now fo...

Radio: Final index

1) Radio: Introduction to Radio 2) Radio: BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat 3) Radio: War of the Worlds

Radio: War of the Worlds CSP (1938)

  Media Factsheet Read Media Factsheet #176: CSP Radio - War of the Worlds . You'll need your Greenford Google login to download it. Then answer the following questions: 1) What is the history and narrative behind War of the Worlds? Welles’ 1938 radio play is an  adaption of H.G. Wells’ novel of the same  name, first published in 1898. It tells the  story of an alien invasion and the ensuing  conflict between mankind and an extra-  terrestrial race from Mars. The text has been  frequently interpreted as a commentary on  British Imperialism and Victorian fear and  prejudice. The book has been adapted for  both radio and (several) films, including the  2005 version starring Tom Cruise. It was  also famously turned into a best-selling musical album by Jeff Wayne  in 1978 (recently updated by Gary Barlow as a touring stage musical). 2) When was it first broadcast and what is the popular myth regarding the reaction from the aud...