AS Exam Revision Activities

What can you do to help yourself revise?

• Deconstruct texts quickly making bullet point notes under the four headings - Audience, Institution, Representation and Form (Media Language). Do this as a 15-20 minute task to build confidence in analysing unseen texts of all types.Choose text extracts of about 1-2 minutes long
• Concentrate on Moving Image pieces. This means - TV news, Documentary, Sitcom, Game Show, Advert, Channel promotion, Soap Opera, Programme or Film Trailer, Campaign advert, Music Video, Current Affairs, Reality TV as well as Moving Image web content.
• Use sites like Youtube, BBC iPlayer, 4oD, Vimeo and ITV Player to access extracts and example texts. Make sure you get a range of examples from a range of institutions.
• Use some of the following as examples:

         Advertising - Sony Xperia - Made of Imagination

                              The Guardian 3 Little Pigs

         TV News - Any BBC/ITV/CH4 News opening with Headlines

         Soap Opera - An extract or the Opening from Eastenders or Hollyoaks

         Sitcom - Miranda BBC1

         Documentary - Panorama - Poor America choose a section or the Opening

         Game Show - The Cube ITV1 2 Minute section from 0.48secs or the Opening

         Channel Promotion - ITV Drama 2012 Channel Promotion

                                          Channel 4 Street Summer Promotion

         Trailer - Snow White and the Huntsman

                     District 9 trailer

        Reality TV - The Voice BBC 1
                           Come Dine With Me Channel 4
        Current Affairs - Newsnight BBC2 Debate on the London Riots
        Moving Image Web Content - Youtube Home page 

• Use the updated Media AS Booklet with example questions to extend your notes into written answers.
• Come to the Revision day - Theory Clinic on Wednesday 9.30
• Do something - even spending 15 minutes analysing one of the texts above will leave you feeling much better than if you do nothing