[vicky67]

My Media Exam MS4 is coming up soon and need some ideas about how to answer questions. Can you give me some idea or link about how to answer the question :"How conventional is the narrative structure of your chosen texts?" and "Explore the different ways in which audiences respond to your chosen texts".
I have chosen 3 texts to analyse but got no idea about how shuold Istructure the answer so please Help
Many Many Thanks you guys <3 xx

[vicky67]

ANYone please help this question? xxx

[OliviaVW]

I do Media A2 (WJEC). Some girl in our school last year got 100% on the paper (highest in the country!) and we got given her transcript. Honestly it was total rubbish, but you just need to include certain theories. Basically you need to think really analytically and rip your chosen text to bits trying to relate it to the question. All your paragraphs should link nicely, i.e. your next paragraph should be relevant to the last and 'flow' into each other.

I have her transcript in front of me now with the examiners writing on it (basically every point she made they rewrote at the side for whatever reason), which I'll type out for you:

PART A: "Explore the different ways that the audience respond to texts" 20+10=30 (full marks)
Popularity = response
Uses & Gratifications
Social networking
Demographics
Response interactivity
Audience theory
Involvement - responses
Richard Dyer (Dystopia)
Positioning
Response
Psychographics
Readings
Dress codes/appearance

For part A she had a 3-line short introduction, then got right into the texts, going through the first one (for us The Inbetweeners) then onto TV news, narrative, a crime drama (The Wire), Ofcom rules, and then various character types.

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PART B: "Explore how your chosen texts use digital technology in their marketing" 20+10=30 (full marks)
Social networking
Involvement
Uses and Gratifications
Marketing
Website
Interactivity
Internet searches
Apps - Digital
Audience
Digital editing SFX
Billboards

For part B she opens by talking about the introduction of railways and marketing newspapers, then the internet, social networking, involvement with 'events', ipad applications etc.

I can't help with your question as we are most likely not doing the same texts, but the theory can be related to any of them, so if you revise all the different things like Stephen Neale, Molly Haskell etc, you'll be fine

Good luck and sorry if this doesn't make much sense!

[Becs261093]

http://www.wjec.co.uk/uploads/publications/14315.pdf

scroll down to ms4 and it tells you a little paragraph about that question