Mock exam response
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This document provides tips and best practices for answering exam questions on film genres and representation. It recommends: 1) Referring to all texts in the question throughout the response and using a simple introduction-identify and justify points-conclusion structure. 2) Focusing on a few key points and including relevant contextual knowledge about directors and years. 3) Comparing the chosen text to other films from the same genre and using quotations when justifying points. It also identifies common mistakes like mislabeling conventions or claiming a film belongs to the wrong genre.
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Mock exam response
- 1. Mock exams. Strengths + Weaknesses Section A – Industry applied Film
- 2. Exam Technique; Best practice - Refers to all 3 texts!!!!!!!! - A simple and reoccurring structure – Introduction, Identify + Justify x 3, Conclusion. - Referred to the language in the question throughout. Representation, genre, typical, conforms, opposes, stereotypical - Response was focused and did not take on too many points. Write a a lot about a little. - Concisely included contextual knowledge. Directors, year, origins.
- 3. Genre question best practice; - Best responses referred and compared chosen texts to other films from the genre. The Fly, Drive, Avatar - Used quotations from the script when justifying a point - Correctly titled each convention chosen. - Refers to technical conventions when appropriate Character roles, Narrative themes, Mise en scene, Iconography, technical conventions. - Refers to Post modernism
- 4. Genre question common faults; - Black and white is not a genre convention of Film Noir - Colour is not a convention of Comic book - Use of diegetic sound is not a Social Realism convention - The classic period of Film Noir was 1941–1953 - District 9 is not a documentary – It takes documentary stylistic features.
- 5. Representation question common - faults; The response dictates the argument and did not discuss the complexity and full representation. - A lack of comparison to other texts - Refers to audience.