[megan.cl]

(Original post by janet827)
Yeah it's Friday 15th AM
Im doing music indusrty too!
I couldn't find any past paper either but they would be useful, only one ive seen is last years which our teacher showed us

What case studies are you doing for music?

And yeah i know, our teacher is awfull, hasnt even showed us how the exam is layed out :/

[sofy356]

Yer its just last yours one on the wjec website but all the questions are pretty similar

[Becs261093]

(Original post by janet827)
Doctor Who's the only one we've got in common lol Im also doing Miss Marple :/ and CSI
and film we're doing Paul, Slumdog millionaire and the kings speech

Which episode? We're focusing on "Vincent and The Doctor"


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[x_iMANII]

for media texts my college chose;

TV: Doctor Who, Strictly Come Dancing & Sons of Anarchy
FILM: Persepolis, Public Enemies & Shaun of The Dead
ADVERTISING: Chanel No 5, Barnado's & 55DSL

in the exam you have to pick ONE industry per question and talk about everything from your chosen texts for that industry. 2 1/2 hours sounds like such little time for the amount of writing we have to do good luck everyone!

[megan.cl]

Does anyone know the amount of writing we are advised to do per question? Like how many pages etc?

[sofy356]

2 sides and a half is normally the amount my teacher accepts as a good effort for each question so over all should be about 8 sides ish

[megan.cl]

(Original post by sofy356)
2 sides and a half is normally the amount my teacher accepts as a good effort for each question so over all should be about 8 sides ish

Thanks, do you (or anyone else) have any idea how many points that is? just so i know how much detail to go into and how long my points have to be..

[joey_richardson]

My chosen texts are;

Film: Hot Fuzz, Casino Royale and This is England
TV: I'm a Celebrity, Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing
Music: Lady GaGa, Sex Pistols and Girls Aloud

Questions I'm hoping for;

Film: Any genre question because I've hardly revised Narrative but I could possibly get by with a Representation one
TV: How do your chosen texts attract or appeal to their audiences?
Music: How do your chosen texts use digital technology in their marketing (they used this for last year so I guess they wouldn't this year)? or something to do with promotion/marketing

[JJames]

Films: The Dark Knight, Slumdog Millionaire and Four Lions
Newspapers: The Guardian, The Sun and The Birmingham Mail
Adverts: BT, Mini and Barnardo's

I'm comfortable with Text, but I find it hard to use theory for Industry and Audience.

[megan.cl]

Do we need to bring theorys into our answers? Because we havent learnt any :/

[misplacedshadow]

(Original post by megan.cl)
Do we need to bring theorys into our answers? Because we havent learnt any :/

Yeah theories would be important. These are what I'm using for Film, TV & Music.

For film, genre- conventions, narrative- Todorov structure, Strauss' Binary Opposites, Propps Character Types, Vogler's Hero's Journey, Barthes' Codes, Representation- how/stereotypical/whose/postive or negative

For Television- mainly just for audiences, Hall/Morley's Audience Responses, Fiske's Positioning, U & G Theory, Young & Rubicam's Consumer Groups.

For Music- basically the same as audiences for television.

[misplacedshadow]

A lot of you guys seemed to have studied Doctor Who as one of your texts, think I would have actually self-combusted if we'd been taught that. We did Sherlock and it was hard enough containing my inner fan-girl for that, especially when you know more about the show than the teacher

My other texts are
Film: Burn After Reading, True Grit and Touching the Void
TV: Sherlock, 24 and Gavin & Stacey
Music; Britney, Radiohead and Lana Del Rey.

It's a good thing I find Media relatively easy compared to my other A Levels, because we were given a revision guide to basically teach ourselves the end of the Music section, we had 2 lessons on Radiohead before term ended and just about listened to a few of their songs. And I've only got 3 days to revise for this exam. Fingers crossed there won't be any difficult questions!

[megan.cl]

(Original post by misplacedshadow)
Yeah theories would be important. These are what I'm using for Film, TV & Music.

For film, genre- conventions, narrative- Todorov structure, Strauss' Binary Opposites, Propps Character Types, Vogler's Hero's Journey, Barthes' Codes, Representation- how/stereotypical/whose/postive or negative

For Television- mainly just for audiences, Hall/Morley's Audience Responses, Fiske's Positioning, U & G Theory, Young & Rubicam's Consumer Groups.

For Music- basically the same as audiences for television.

Ahh man... my teacher hasnt even mentioned any theories at all... And i need an A grade :/

[Moscardini]

(Original post by crimson.threads)
I thought the magazine for our year's entry was a music magazine? That's odd, since I did the Jan entry, and it was concerned with the music industry, more than anything else...

Unless you're talking about coursework? Our exams should be the same, since I took WJEC Media too, but can you layout your course; seems to be different to mine.

There is no set industry with an industry, so long as one text is British

[Moscardini]

(Original post by crimson.threads)
This is somewhat belated, but here's my school wiki; you may find it useful in terms of theory!

http://www.esfmedia.com/page/GCSE+Media

I'm sorry about confusing you, it is rather odd...
Either way, I wouldn't worry! Media is underpinned by two or three base concepts, and the rest of the theories are built up around it.

These are, unfortunately... the ones you're having trouble with.
To put it simply,
Text: the actual thing, or product viewed by people- i.e: Slumdog Millionare, The Daily Telegraph, Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe"

Audience: The people themselves that view the text- they can be divided into various social classes

Industry: The media industry provides, and creates text in order to satisfy the audience, and obtain money from them.

It's not too difficult to link audience and text together, but the high points come from linking the INDUSTRY, and the TEXT to each other, and HOW the industry therefore affects the text.

For example, if a text say, Telephone by Lady Gaga was made by an indie music company, rather than one of the 'Big Four', this would affect the amount of people that Gaga reaches that is, her audience. This would mean that her star persona would be perceived quite differently in context.

As for the exam, try your best! But it's okay if you mess up a little- I dropped a 10 mark question and still managed to come out with an A*; it's very important to have good coursework!

Woah, the text section is based on genre/narrative/audience

Anyways, I'm doing
Film: Dark Knight, American Beauty, Slumdog
TV: Ross Kemp on gangs, desperate housewives, Sherlock
Advertising: chanel no 5, Bernados, apple or nike, not decided yet

Guys, a lot of you are stressing, just think of it like this 50 mins for each essay, simples.
One of your question will always be on genre/narrative/representation (text). For me what I found easiest was to allocate to each question. i.e. for me, if a good text question comes up i'll talk about tv. if a good Industry one comes up i'll do film and audience for advertising.

[Moscardini]

(Original post by megan.cl)
Ahh man... my teacher hasnt even mentioned any theories at all... And i need an A grade :/

Don't panic too much, just know the basics. These are the key ones;
enigma code
propp's character archetypes
levi strauss's binary opposition

You can really get away with these unless it's a question specifically on narrative.

Also, this.

[Becs261093]

(Original post by misplacedshadow)
A lot of you guys seemed to have studied Doctor Who as one of your texts, think I would have actually self-combusted if we'd been taught that. We did Sherlock and it was hard enough containing my inner fan-girl for that, especially when you know more about the show than the teacher

My other texts are
Film: Burn After Reading, True Grit and Touching the Void
TV: Sherlock, 24 and Gavin & Stacey
Music; Britney, Radiohead and Lana Del Rey.

It's a good thing I find Media relatively easy compared to my other A Levels, because we were given a revision guide to basically teach ourselves the end of the Music section, we had 2 lessons on Radiohead before term ended and just about listened to a few of their songs. And I've only got 3 days to revise for this exam. Fingers crossed there won't be any difficult questions!

You had Sherlock and Gavin and Stacey?! I LOVE JAMES CORDEN!!! And havin to class "hit me baby one more time" as revision sounds pretty good


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[megan.cl]

Can someone please explain what a "narrative" actually is, say the question is on narrative, because i kind of get what it means but not fully and it seems pretty important..

[Moscardini]

(Original post by megan.cl)
Can someone please explain what a "narrative" actually is, say the question is on narrative, because i kind of get what it means but not fully and it seems pretty important..

Technically speaking the narrative is the story itself, and what it's composed of. To analyse this narrative we use narrative theory's. For example the propp's theory, we'd analyse the role of the 'hero' or 'villain' within the narrative(story). With the enigma code i.e 'Who killed Jane Doe' we'd analyse the impact it has on the narrative (other characters actions perhaps) and the impact on the audience. One way to analyse narrative specifically is Todrov's narrative theory; 'Equilibrium, disruption, recognition of disruption, repair and new equilibrium'. One here would analyse each section throughout the film and how that effects the plot and the audience.

(Sorry I can't explain it better >< )

[megan.cl]

(Original post by Moscardini)
Technically speaking the narrative is the story itself, and what it's composed of. To analyse this narrative we use narrative theory's. For example the propp's theory, we'd analyse the role of the 'hero' or 'villain' within the narrative(story). With the enigma code i.e 'Who killed Jane Doe' we'd analyse the impact it has on the narrative (other characters actions perhaps) and the impact on the audience. One way to analyse narrative specifically is Todrov's narrative theory; 'Equilibrium, disruption, recognition of disruption, repair and new equilibrium'. One here would analyse each section throughout the film and how that effects the plot and the audience.

(Sorry I can't explain it better >< )

Thanks, so the narrative is how the story is put together? so if im doing newspapers would i be able to talk about the images included as they add to the story?