Results

For section A, gender representation in Sherlock, I got 29/50 which is a D. I am a little disappointed but I was expecting a low grade because for half of the question I forgot I was writing about gender representation so I just spoke about techniques in general. I know that when I do another question I will focus entirely on exactly what the question is asking.

For section B, the internets role in marketing and exchange, I got 38/50 which is a B. I'm happy with that grade as I remembered all my quotes and figures for each case study. I believe I need to do more and more questions to strengthen my writing skills to bring my grade up to an A.

Overall I got 67/100 which is a C. I was aiming for a B but I understand where it went wrong and I aim to improve my exam skills.

Section B

Section B was about how internet helped with a films marketing and communication. I used three case studies:

Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
The Interview (2014)

For Captain America I spoke about how if a fan tweeted #TeamIronMan or #TeamCap they would receive a video from the films twitter account of a cast member agreeing or disagreeing with their choice. This is because it engaged fans which made them excited to watch it.

Paranormal Activity used Eventful.com and fans would demand the film in an area near them. This created 'hype' around the film and once it hit over one million demands Paramount revealed that they would expand the film to cinemas.

The Interview was my negative case study on how internet does not always help. The film was marketed and purchased online, but torrent sites got a hold of it and it was viewed illegally millions of times, creating no profit.

I was also going to talk about 'Shawshank Redemption' (1994) but I didn't know enough about it. I started the paragraph but realised I was waffling on and it didn't really make sense so I crossed it out.

Along with these case studies I used quotes and figures to prove why my statement was correct. I think I have done better in Section B than Section A because I knew in-depth information about the films.

Section A

Section A was asking about Gender representation in an extract of Sherlock Holmes episode 1 season 1. I spoke about the four main elements, mise-en-scene, cinematography, camera work and editing, however halfway through I remembered that the question was about gender, so I had to go back and link my points to gender representation. I know that my lack of paying attention to what the question was asking will bring my grade down and it has taught me to always stay focused towards the question.

Overall thoughts

On 10th March 2017 we had our media mock, which consisted of the June 2016 questions.

Overall I believe it went well, however for Section A I lost sight of what the question was asking but I managed to link my sentences to the representation at the end.

For Section B I knew straight away what case studies I would use for the particular question.