End of year 1 exam learner response

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

WWW: Scarlett, very good exam lots to credit throughout! Your essay was very impressive and detailed.

Next steps: Add a paragraph for Q1.2 which focuses on how the clip uses Todorovs equilibrium theory

                  Complete the LR blog task

2) Look at the mark scheme document linked above. Question 1.1 asks about mise-en-scene. What do we use to remember mise-en-scene? Give one example answer from the clip too - you'll find example answers in the mark scheme.

CLAMPS

Costume Lighting Actors Makeup Props Setting

Setting – empty city

3) Question 1.2 asks about narrative features in the extract. Look at the mark scheme to pick out three possible answers for this question. 

Todorov (equilibrium): The empty city creates a sense of disequilibrium – that something has gone wrong and needs to be repaired or at least understood by the characters.

• Barthes (enigma and action codes): Action codes – the music, the chase scene, the confrontation between the children. Enigma codes: why is the city empty? Who are they chasing? What do the Spectres look like and is Will in danger? Key lines of dialogue: “Where are the grown-ups?”; “Since the attack, Spectres are everywhere”.

• Binary opposition: Lyra and Will are presented as binary opposites to the other two children. The lack of grown-ups creates a sense of young/old binary opposition (particularly as children are not in danger from Spectres).

4) Now focus on Question 2 - the 20 mark essay. Use the mark scheme to pick out one way Doctor Who reflects 1963 and one way His Dark Materials reflects 2020. 

Traditionally, in Doctor Who, Doctor was a white male, most often with a younger female companion, reflecting and reinforcing traditional gender roles of the times

In His Dark Materials, Lyra is more capable, more active and more in control – she is not bothered what Will thinks or her and does not defer to him at all demonstrating the gender roles in 2020

5) Reflect on your overall work and exam performance this year. What three things do you need to work on or revise in Media for Year 11? 

Industries role in TV shows

Enigma codes

Narrative features