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WJEC GCSE Media Studies Unit 2 - Thursday, May 22, 2025 [Exam Chat]

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WJEC GCSE Media Studies Unit 2 (3680U20-1) - 22 May 2025 [Exam Chat]
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Date/Time: 22 May 2025 PM
Length: 1h 30m
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Paper 1 chat here >>
(edited 8 months ago)
How did it go everyone? :smile:

Reply 2

Best Test OAT definitely got a grade 9

Reply 3

I thought it was quite good! Could've been better, but I tried my best! Mentioned theories etc etc etc

Reply 4

Original post
by kittyfilarious
it was rly good but i feel like i worded indirect address definition wrong, what did ppl put for the first 2?

What exam board are you?

Reply 5

Original post
by greendaygurl1039
What exam board are you?


**** i’m aqa oops

Reply 6

I think it went okay
SECTION A- I am really strong at and can get full marks
- (G&S) So like the terrace housing & cramped caravan, Nessa teaching (welsh ppl are educated) tennsions between wales and england, joke rivary betwwen welsh towns then Dic powell with small town sensabilities and he can speak cymraeg but no one else can. basicly the same thing ive rtten for every past paper

SECTION B has always been my weaker side (Black Panther)
the two 10 markers were inresting to say the least... But I think it went okay

1.

I was really confuse by Narrative... so I spoke about how the charecters effected the plot of the importance of there charecter. With like Props charecter theory... Might have been wrong to do it like this but i had NO CLUE what i was doing
So i spoke about SHURI who is main charecters sisiter provides props and aids fights that way. amd adds comedic and youthfull affect because links to VINE and stuff...
For the second charecter The CIA agent Evverta Ross as he shows everywhite person as a whole (like i spoke about balck reprentation in media) and how white peoplle treat and see the African natiuons

2.

Costume and props was hard, as i didn't do much on that. I decide to speak more genrally but still refre to one scene, so in the scene where BP first fights the guys on the waterfull the crowed is all wareing diffrent stuff for their tribes. I spoke about how costme desginer RUTH E CARTER spent time reserching authentic clothing and stuff.... and for genre I just was like uhh Hyprid genre "Afro-futisic" anmd action....
(thinking now having T'Chalal shirtless is a convention of action movies but ohwell)

I would have loved C&C to come up as that is just (chefs kiss)

My laptop crashes halfway through the paper (all of section A) and so for 15 minutes i was panicking that i had lost all my work
the invidulators & It were surounding mw, we mahged to finind it and only a few sentances hadn't saved
but that through me off so bad, and i was so stressed about it
like I panc about EVERYTHING.... like i mean EVERYTHING so that deffentily is going to effect my grade

Reply 7

Original post
by StrawberryDreams
How did it go everyone? :smile:

Good apart from my laptop crashing...😭😭

Reply 8

Original post
by kittyfilarious
**** i’m aqa oops

Omg that's so cool xx what set texts do you do?

Reply 9

Did anyone else struggle with the question on the sweeney??

Reply 10

Original post
by greendaygurl1039
Omg that's so cool xx what set texts do you do?


boring ones 🙏
music videos - arctic monkeys ibtylgotd and blackpink hylt
film - i daniel blake and black widow
tv - doctor who (old) and his dark materials
radio - radio 1 and kiss radio
advertisements - audrey hepburn galaxy, nhs represent, omo 1950s print ad
magazines - heat and tatler
newspapers - daily mirror and the times
video games - lara croft go and kim kardashian hollywood
osp - marcus rashford and kim kardashian

my school has just switched to eduqas for media though because aqa is absolutely evil and in both these and last years exams have asked about terminology that wasn’t even on the spec

Reply 11

Original post
by kittyfilarious
boring ones 🙏
music videos - arctic monkeys ibtylgotd and blackpink hylt
film - i daniel blake and black widow
tv - doctor who (old) and his dark materials
radio - radio 1 and kiss radio
advertisements - audrey hepburn galaxy, nhs represent, omo 1950s print ad
magazines - heat and tatler
newspapers - daily mirror and the times
video games - lara croft go and kim kardashian hollywood
osp - marcus rashford and kim kardashian
my school has just switched to eduqas for media though because aqa is absolutely evil and in both these and last years exams have asked about terminology that wasn’t even on the spec

Wowww that is interesting !! Newspapers is the worst tho ngl ngl

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