Revision lessons for both Media AS classes

Here are the revision arrangements for the week of 18th May. This is study leave time so sessions are non-compulsory but we recommend you use them sensibly to make your revision effective.

Wednesday periods 3 & 4
No revision session but Ms Pollard will be available in S23 if you want to come and use laptops to revise, or ask questions.

Thursday period 5
Radio revision session for both groups with Ms Warrington in S24

Friday periods 1 & 2
Revision session targeted at the TV Drama part of the exam, for both groups with Ms Pollard in S23

Radio Institutions practice questions

Here are four sample questions like the one you will have in the second half of your exam: Media Institutions and Audiences. Practise writing answers under timed conditions (1 hour). Try to choose a question you have not attempted before - newest questions are at the bottom. If you want a marked answer please bring in your essay next week and hand it to your teacher / ask a teacher to put it in her pigeon hole in the staffroom.

• Discuss the issues raised by new technologies and the convergence of technologies for the media institution you have studied.
• You should refer to specific examples from your case study to back up the points you make.
  

• Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within a media area.
  You should refer to specific examples from your case study to back up the points you make.
  

• Discuss the ways in which a media institution targets its audience through content and marketing.
  You should refer to specific examples from your case study to back up the points you make.
  

• Discuss the issues raised for a media institution by the changing patterns of audience consumption.
  You should refer to specific examples from your case study to back up the points you make.
  

Mock Exam date & revision tips

Your Media AS mock exam will take place on Friday 8th May at 8.55 am (periods 1 & 2)

It is essential that you arrive on time to the exam and that you are fully prepared.

Revision tips:

1. Know your case study really, really well. The shows, the schedule, the target audience and how their needs are met, they ways it's distributed, its use of technologies and convergence Be ready to give specific examples from your case study for every point you make.

Know the 5 key areas well and be able to run through them in your head so that you remember to talk about all of them:

1. The BBC’s responsibility to its audience (the differences between public and commercial radio institutions - i.e. who pays for them and how; what does this mean about how they need to provide for their audiences?)
2. Convergence and distribution: how the BBC reaches its audiences; what new technologies have been introduced and how this has affected radio institutions like the BBC
3. Digital production and the benefits of this
4. Marketing: How the BBC markets specific radio stations and attracts specific audiences
5. Content: How the BBC targets the needs of niche audiences (e.g. people of a particular age, cultural heritage, region or interest group)

3. Know your terminology (technical words). These are listed below in green.

4. Get a revision technique for all this information. For example, try putting examples from your case study, the 5 areas, and the key words onto revision cards, or stick them round your room, or recite them outloud - whatever helps you remember.