AS Foundation Portfolio Candidates 2015

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Please find below a full list of AS Foundation Portfolio candidates.

1. Jordan Bunning 0250 - http://jordanjbunningmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Emma De La Querra 0272 - http://emmadlqmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
3. Megan East 0276 - http://megeastmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
4. Seska Ford 0680 - http://seskamedia.blogspot.co.uk/
5. Danielle Garden 4172 - http://daniellegardenmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
6. Charlie Hawkins 4173 - http://charliemediaas.blogspot.co.uk/
7. Brooke Keen 0308 - http://brookekeenmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/
8. Royann Lapham 4175 - http://royannmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
9. Jake Marshall 0322 - http://jakemarshallmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
10. Amber Mobbs 0331 - http://ambermobbsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
11. George Moore 4177 - http://georgemooremedia.blogspot.co.uk/
12. Joel Pickard 0346 - http://joelpickardmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
13. Alistair Rice 0355 - http://alistairmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
14.  Jessica Richards 0356 - http://jessrichardsmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
15. Leah Rolfe 0360 - http://leahrolfe.blogspot.co.uk/
16. Joe Sandford 0363 - http://joesandfordmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
17. Amy Simpson 0370 - http://amysimpsonmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/
18. Beth Simpson 0371 - http://bethsimpsonmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk/
19. Xav Sinden 3190 - http://xavsindenmedia.blogspot.co.uk/
20. George Young 0403 - http://georgekdyoungmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

A2 Advanced Portfolio Candidates 2015

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Please find below a full list of A2 candidates for the Advanced Portfolio module.

1. Katie Bannock 0507 - http://katiebannocka2.blogspot.co.uk/
2. Aine Buller 9206 - http://ainemedia.blogspot.co.uk/
3. Abek Clarke 9219 - http://abelsmediastudiesa2.blogspot.co.uk/
4. Elliot Dias-Gunawardena 9238 - http://elliotdga2media.blogspot.co.uk/
5. Thomas Ewart 9246 - http://thomasewartsa2media.blogspot.co.uk/
6. Skarlet Hillier 9272 - http://skarlethilliera2mediablog.blogspot.co.uk/
7. Ben Millard-Green 9294 - http://bmga2media.blogspot.co.uk/
8. Victor Nonyane 0230 - http://victornonyanea2.blogspot.co.uk/
9. Zoe Ridgway 3014 - http://zoeridgwaya2media.blogspot.co.uk/
10. Tyana Rodney 9328 - http://tyanaalexmediabloga2.blogspot.co.uk/
11. Megan Sulley 9344 - http://megansulleya2.blogspot.co.uk/
12. Joel Urner 0648 - http://joelurnera2.blogspot.co.uk/

The A2 Exam - Links to material

links to posts on the A2 exam 

General Advice and a page of all the old questions
How to approach q.1a
How to approach q.1b

Contemporary Media Regulation
Media in the online Age
Global Media
Postmodernism
WeMedia and Democracy
Media and Collective Identity

Tips on organising answers to 1a and 1b
Structuring an answer to Online Age question (also useful for other topics)

Tops Tips to Prepare for an Exam

This is just a short post with a few top tips as exams approach!

1. Don't spend ages revising. This may be what you want to hear because you're lazy, but that's not what I mean. My view is that if you don't take things in as you go along, you won't do well in exams (at least not in Media or Film) just because you do a load of work at the end. You need to understand your subject and be able to talk about it anyway. preparing for exam questions about it should be a matter of technique and refreshing your mind about it, rather than cramming loads of information for weeks.

2. Focus your preparation completely. Know PRECISELY what you are going to be expected to do in the exam- how long the paper is, what form the questions take, how many marks are attached to them and how long you are expected to spend on each one. Know what the rules are about the questions- do you have to refer to a minimum number of texts, a variety of media, to examples from a particular period of time- whatever! all this knowledge helps you to be absolutely clear about what you need to prepare and what you can set aside. Look at past papers and past questions- if your teacher can't provide them, go on-line and find them- all exam boards have old papers you can download.

3. Decide what you feel most confident about using and systematically prepare that material so that you can summarise it, refer to the key arguments, mobilise specific examples to back your points and adapt it to the needs of different questions. You don't need to know EVERYTHING about a topic, but you do need to be able to be FLEXIBLE with what you do know!

4. PRACTICE writing to time. Start with some old questions and set out what your paragraphs will contain as a set of bullet points. Then just write and time yourself. How much can you cover in the time and how well does your argument work? get someone to read it, especially someone who doesn't know about the subject, and ask them if they can follow your argument and if your examples back your points up. If not, go back to what you have written and work out how to fill the gaps. If you do a few timed essays, you will get faster and if you seek advice from readers, you will get better.

5. Have some of your own examples. Don't rely on everything having been spoon fed by the teachers. Applying ideas or concepts to examples YOU have found always helps your answer to stand out from the same old stuff that everyone has half-remembered or half-understood the teacher saying.

6. Don't panic. If you prepare effectively in the short term and have taken things on board in the long term, then you have nothing to worry about. You can only do your best.

7. And finally, get the obvious things right. Know WHEN the exam is- DAY and TIME! I have known students to miss a morning exam because they assumed it was in the afternoon. Aim to be there EARLY- transport isn't always reliable. And have your PENS! When I used to invigilate, it always shocked me that there were many people in the room who had forgotten to bring pens. And during the exam, keep an eye on the clock. There is no value in spending an hour on a 25 mark question and then only half an hour on a 50 mark question. You might get full marks for the 25, but you will probably lose 25 on the 50!

A2 - Section A revision

08 Media Studies - Section a Revision by Tony Buckmaster

AS Evaluation

L - Media Studies - Evaluation by abuc2983 on Scribd

Banned Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi: 'The necessity to create becomes even more of an urge'

The director of the infamous This Is Not A Movie has filmed features while the Iranian authorities prohibit him from doing so – and has underlined the importance of free speech.

The film-maker Jafar Panahi, currently banned from making films in his native Iran, has issued a statement underlining the spiritual and political importance of free creativity.

He was convicted of spreading anti-government propaganda after the Iranian government took umbrage at the content of his films, and sentenced with a film-making ban, as well as a jail sentence which he has so far managed to avoid. Despite the threat of imprisonment being held over him, he has made three films since: This Is Not A Movie (smuggled to Cannes on a USB hidden in a cake), Closed Curtain, and Taxi, which will debut at the Berlin film festival this year.

Opening up about the ban, Panahi said in a statement:

'Nothing can prevent me from making films since when being pushed to the ultimate corners I connect with my inner-self and, in such private spaces, despite all limitations, the necessity to create becomes even more of an urge. Cinema as an art becomes my main preoccupation. That is the reason why I have to continue making films under any circumstances to pay my respect and feel alive.'

Panahi may no longer be under house arrest, as he documented in This Is Not A Movie, but he is not allowed to leave the country. He therefore won’t be in Berlin for the premiere of Taxi, in which a taxi driver played by Panahi has a series of encounters with passengers in his cab.