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  Mock exams learner response: blog tasks Today, we need to closely analyse our performance across both papers and identity specific ways we will improve for the real exams on  Monday 13 and Monday 20 May . Complete the following  learner response  tasks in a new blogpost on your Media blog called 'March mock exams learner response': 1) Type up any comments you can find in your papers - these may be on individual questions or at the end of the paper. Alternatively, write something you've learned from going through the two papers in class.  42/84- grade 4  2) Which paper did you do better in? i think i did better in paper 1  3) Why do you think you did better in that paper? because i think   revised  more for paper One which impacted some of the marks i got and i had ,ore of an understanding of the close studies.  4) Focusing on Paper 1, write down  three  things you need to improve on before the real exams. This may be a particular section or type of question (e.g. unseen a

  Newspapers: Daily Mirror - Audience and Industries Audience 1) What is the Daily Mirror's audience? List the key statistics here. working class, the labour party, 65+ 2) Why do the Mirror stories on the CSP pages appeal to the Daily Mirror audience? as some of the are informal and still important as well 3) Why might a reader  enjoy  the Daily Mirror? Use Blumler & Katz Uses and Gratifications theory to add detail to your answer. as all topics aren't serious and can also be classed as 'entertainment' 4) Why are print newspapers generally read by older audiences? the is because this generation mainly use online platforms to read news 5) How is the inside-page story on our CSP pages constructed to appeal to Daily Mirror readers? Think about text and selection of images. as it has a mixture of entertainment and serious news and also the images are more suitable as some of the audience may not be able to read as well due to them being in the working or lower class.  I

  Blog tasks: Daily Mirror case study Work through the following questions to cover the Language and Representations key concepts for the  Daily Mirror . Language 1) Write the definition of the following key language for newspaper front pages (you may want to add an example for each from our Daily Mirror CSP): Masthead: Title of the newspaper Pug: short piece of  vital info  Splash Head: lead story Slogan: short   phrase to  advertise product.  Dateline: where and when the info was reported Kicker: additional  headline for your news  Byline: naming the writer of the article Stand first : introduction paragraph to an article  2) How much does a copy of the Daily Mirror cost? (Note: the current cost is different to the CSP edition - we recommend learning both). 55p 3) What are the main stories on the CSP edition of the Daily Mirror (see above)? Make sure you learn the headline and what the stories are about. pride of Britain and global warming  4) Why is the choice of news stories and co

  Blog tasks: Daily Mirror case study Language 1) Write the definition of the following key language for newspaper front pages (you may want to add an example for each from our Daily Mirror CSP): Masthead: a title block of the newspaper  Pug: something to catch readers eyes  Splash Head: the lead story  Slogan: sums up ethos of newspaper Dateline: date newspaper was published   Kicker: story at top of paper to draw interest content  By-line: gives the name of journalist/writer  Stand first: introductory paragraph usually in bold 2) How much does a copy of the Daily Mirror cost? (Note: the current cost is different to the CSP edition - we recommend learning both).  in 2021- 90p in 2024- £1.80 3) What are the main stories on the CSP edition of the Daily Mirror (see above)? Make sure you learn the headline and what the stories are about. Heat Is On - this is the topic about global warming and the climate change affecting the world globally.  4) Why is the choice of news stories and conten

  Introduction to Newspapers: blog task 1) What type of news can you typically find in a  tabloid  newspaper? gossip and entertainment and soft news (celebrity stories) 2)  What type of news can you typically find in a  broadsheet  newspaper? serious and harder news.  3) If someone is  left-wing , which political party are they likely to support? Which newspaper would they be likely to read? they are in labour party, and they are most likely to read a tabloid.  4) If someone is  right-wing , which political party are they likely to support? Which newspaper would they be likely to read? they support the conservative party, and are most likely to read a broadsheet.  5) Why has there been a decline in newspaper sales in the last 20 years? there has been a decline in newspaper sales over the past 20 years due to the internet as it came about in 2000 which has then expanded which meant newspaper sales dropped as people used the internet much more. 

  December mock exam: Learner Response blog tasks 1) Type up any feedback on your paper  (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential). If you only have marks and a grade on the paper, write a WWW/EBI yourself based on your scores. WWW: Elise, good attempt especially on the TV extract analysis Q's - good notes on the table page! you know the csp's in this exam but there is not a lot of depth! detail in some of you responses  (eg: Q2 and Q4)  EBI: for Q5 you should have compared how other csp's are regulated. Also a few careless mistakes . Q1.1 and Q1.2.  2) Use  the mark scheme for this Paper 2 mock to read the answers AQA were looking for . First, write down a definition and example of non-diegetic sound (Q1.1 and 1.2).  all sounds made by or heard by the characters 3) Next, identify  three  points you could have made in Q1.3 - camerawork and the extract. Look for the indicative content in the mark scheme - these are the suggested a