Confident use of media language is crucial across both exams in A Level Media so it is important we are revising terminology and theory on an ongoing basis and making sure there are no gaps as the course continues.
MIGRAIN index - Media Exam blog
Keeping an index of all your work is extremely good practice from a revision perspective. Not only does this keep the concepts and media terminology fresh in your mind but it will also highlight if you've missed anything through absence or any other reason. Your index should currently include the following:
1) Introduction to Media: 10 questions
2) Semiotics blog tasks - English analysis and Icon, Index, Symbol
3) Language: Reading an image - media codes
5) Reception theory - advert analyses
6) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions
7) Narrative: Factsheet questions
For your index, the text should link to YOUR corresponding blogpost so you can access your work on each key concept quickly and easily. This also means you if you have missed anything you can now catch up with the work/notes and won't underperform in assessments or exams due to gaps in your knowledge. Here's a guide to creating a blog index that I did in a previous year:
6) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions
7) Narrative: Factsheet questions
For your index, the text should link to YOUR corresponding blogpost so you can access your work on each key concept quickly and easily. This also means you if you have missed anything you can now catch up with the work/notes and won't underperform in assessments or exams due to gaps in your knowledge. Here's a guide to creating a blog index that I did in a previous year:
Important: your index needs to be completed during the lesson and anything missing completed over half-term without fail.
Folder check
An organised folder is absolutely vital when it comes to keeping notes for revision in future. At the beginning of the year you started an A4 ringbinder folder with dividers - we now need to make sure we have done a folder check with all our notes in chronological order and a space for our marked assessment when it is returned after half-term.
Your folder check will be on your blog tracker so you can check with your exam teacher to see whether you are green or red. If you need to bring in your folder, make sure you have the following with you:
- A4 ringbinder folder or equivalent
- Dividers for your exam teacher / coursework teacher etc.
- Notes/Film & TV Language pack for all lessons so far
- Space for your marked assessments
Due dates on Google Classroom.
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