WJEC A2 Media Studies 8th June 2016 predictions

Hi there, I was wandering if anyone had any ideas of what questions might come up in this years WJEC A2 exam on June the 8th. I'm really behind and stressing out big time! Can anyone help?

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Reply 1

upetro1

Original post by Vegetable

Hi there, I was wandering if anyone had any ideas of what questions might come up in this years WJEC A2 exam on June the 8th. I'm really behind and stressing out big time! Can anyone help?

I'm unsure on what the predictions are, do you have your case studies at least from 3 industries?

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Reply 2

OutOfTime

I think in section B there may be two narrative questions.
Id prefer:
-Genre
-Internet
-Narrative
-Representation

Reply 3

upetro1

Original post by OutOfTime

I think in section B there may be two narrative questions.
Id prefer:
-Genre
-Internet
-Narrative
-Representation

Narrative/Genre/Representation will never appear in section B

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Reply 4

Vegetable

Original post by upetro1

Narrative/Genre/Representation will never appear in section B

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Thank you so much! what do you expect will be in section A though? isn't that where representation normally is?

Reply 5

kanyebest

Original post by Vegetable

Thank you so much! what do you expect will be in section A though? isn't that where representation normally is?

Section A is text and Section B is Industry and Audience. So Section A is where you get the representation and narrative questions and Section B is where you get marketing, regulations, social media, digital technolgies and appeals questions.

Reply 6

charlottelucy19

What is everyone's predictions for section B? Do you think marketing will come up?

Reply 7

Vegetable

Original post by charlottelucy19

What is everyone's predictions for section B? Do you think marketing will come up?

social media on marketing came up last year. in 2014 it was marketing strategies then in 2013 was digital technology on marketing(i think)

Reply 8

upetro1

Original post by Vegetable

Thank you so much! what do you expect will be in section A though? isn't that where representation normally is?

Section A will either be Genre/Narrative/Representation. Make sure you go over genre!!!

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Reply 9

Vegetable

Original post by upetro1

Section A will either be Genre/Narrative/Representation. Make sure you go over genre!!!

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i hope marketing/success and regulation dont dominate section B D:

Reply 10

upetro1

Original post by Vegetable

i hope marketing/success and regulation dont dominate section B D:

What industries have you chosen?

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Reply 11

Vegetable

Original post by upetro1

What industries have you chosen?

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Film:
Skyfall, sightseers, Avatar

Television:
x-factor, Bbc news at 6, Black mirror

Advertising:
E-lites, Barnados, Visit Britain

Reply 12

upetro1

Original post by Vegetable

Film:
Skyfall, sightseers, Avatar

Television:
x-factor, Bbc news at 6, Black mirror

Advertising:
E-lites, Barnados, Visit Britain

Very good case studies! Particularly the black mirror tv case study

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Reply 13

Vegetable

Original post by upetro1

Very good case studies! Particularly the black mirror tv case study

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my thoughts are that i will use film for the A1 question, then tv for audience and advertising for regulation/marketing.

Reply 14

yasmincharlotte

this post has freaked me out!! What questions are these case studies to be used for? In our class we each have chosen 3 films to apply to the section B question but that is all?? Can someone explain please omg

Reply 15

gabriellea

Original post by yasmincharlotte

You need a total of 9 different case studies from 3 different industries (e.g. Film industry, music industry etc.) And you can only use 1 industry to answer each question.
So for section A (representation, narrative, genre) You have to use 3 case studies of the same industry to answer it depending on the question asked (so 3 contrasting films or 3 tv programmes that show representation/genre or narrative)
It doesn't matter which industry you choose for the question, just make sure you know how to answer it with your case studies.

For Section B you need 6 case studies that focus on marketing, distribution, production and audience (3 for audience, 3 for industry). Make sure you talk about audience in both section B questions even if you choose a question specific to either audience or industry issues or you could get marked down.

Hope this helped ^.^ Good luck

Reply 16

dalvin_sey

I predict that Section A will be Genre and Representation questions. Section B will be broad, i have a feeling that all 4 questions will cover different topics.

I'm confident in all Section A questions, I just hope that Section B will have two audiece questions.

Reply 17

Vegetable

Good luck to all tonmorrow! ive been sat here slaving over writing past paper questions for days D: i dont know how much is actually sunk in but oh well haha

Reply 18

ellmarsden

if there are two audience questions can we answer them both? Is it literally any two from section B? like you don't have to pick one audience q and then a different one?

Reply 19

dalvin_sey

Original post by ellmarsden

if there are two audience questions can we answer them both? Is it literally any two from section B? like you don't have to pick one audience q and then a different one?