A2 aqa media exam!

Section a was awful, couldn't name any other media products by name, I just said that other products also did this or that, can't remember what I wrote -_-

Section b was a godsend though I think, might've saved my paper :')

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Bethknowles

Section A was horrible- didn't know how to talk about the website, the clip was ridiculous as neither gave enough to talk about media language as couldn't really talk about lighting, camera angles, or narrative!!! The second question on new media went quite well but question 3 I wrote like 2 lines and it made no sense I know nothing about government funding. In class we have being doing representation for the 8 mark question so expected that!!! However section B went well and question 05 was a nice question and ideology! Please tell me no one thought section A went well!!??

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JacobG018

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It is so frustrating because section A completely threw me off section B which consequently made me do so much worst.
I just generally hated the whole exam and I am not hopeful in the slightest. Biggest disappointment of the year :-(

Farewell university

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The only thing I could talk about for the media language section a question for the moving image text was the woman's voice over being British and showing that it's a globally relevant issue because it was happening in Egypt so is likely to be believable, and then I talked about how the camera angles positioned the audience as on the side of te people because they were all on the same level which is bull**** anyway haha :/ and then the last point I did for the moving image text was something about them choosing to use clips which showed the marchers' aggression and passion and how that showed it as being authoritative, not sure if it really was but I couldn't think of anything to say!
-_- the most abysmal section a questions I have ever seen

Reply 8

OP

Original post by Bethknowles

Section A was horrible- didn't know how to talk about the website, the clip was ridiculous as neither gave enough to talk about media language as couldn't really talk about lighting, camera angles, or narrative!!! The second question on new media went quite well but question 3 I wrote like 2 lines and it made no sense I know nothing about government funding. In class we have being doing representation for the 8 mark question so expected that!!! However section B went well and question 05 was a nice question and ideology! Please tell me no one thought section A went well!!??

I'm getting the gist that no one liked section A- thank the Lord so they maybe more lenient! I thought if the questions asked about institutions rather than the audiences it may have been slightly easier! What did you write for question 2, in section A?!

Reply 9

OP

Original post by JacobG018

It is so frustrating because section A completely threw me off section B which consequently made me do so much worst.
I just generally hated the whole exam and I am not hopeful in the slightest. Biggest disappointment of the year :-(

Farewell university

SAME OVER HERE! I spent so long trying to work out what the frig I was writing I realised I had 30 minutes to bang out a section B answer- managed to throw down 5 pages... Whether or not I answered the question right or not is a different story!

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God knows, that was probably my worst one :/ actually it might be been the third that was my worst :/ but I think I wrote about how the women organised the march on twitter and facebook, except I don't know if they actually did because the woman speaking went a bit quick and I kept missing the first part of her sentence :/ and then I said that people do it on YouTube and then mentioned the student riots for Facebook and twitter and bbm and stuff like how they organised it, not sure how that links to audiences but I couldn't think of anything else

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What did anyone else do for their case study? Mine was streaming services

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OP

Original post by gheorghew

What did anyone else do for their case study? Mine was streaming services

Mine was social networking- horhay😉

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Bethknowles

Original post by Georgianixon_

I'm getting the gist that no one liked section A- thank the Lord so they maybe more lenient! I thought if the questions asked about institutions rather than the audiences it may have been slightly easier! What did you write for question 2, in section A?!

It's such such a shame as a did a past paper and got an A and I think I've failed!! Such horrid questions. For question 2 I talked about prosumers, YouTube-justin bieber, globalisation, Facebook-Jamie's world, convergence, twitter, uploading, downloading and sharing, wiki where you can contribute views, familiar participant where you can tweet text in to shows like X factor and this morning programmes to spread views and opinions! New technology On one device so can film, upload and share on the same device, however it doesn't allow everyone to have the same chance as you have to be 13 to have Facebook, 18 for porn, you can't alter all wiki definitions, some content can be removed from YouTube, paedophila, um I don't know what else, did abit about banning on Facebook for uploaded certain content - hope the examiner is nice :smile:

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JacobG018

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Original post by Georgianixon_

SAME OVER HERE! I spent so long trying to work out what the frig I was writing I realised I had 30 minutes to bang out a section B answer- managed to throw down 5 pages... Whether or not I answered the question right or not is a different story!

I am envious of your 5 pages! I managed a puny 2 pages. Not impressed in the slightest!

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OP

Original post by JacobG018

I am envious of your 5 pages! I managed a puny 2 pages. Not impressed in the slightest!

Doubt they'll be able to read any of it though🙈

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