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Section A: Textual analysis and representation You will be shown an extract from The Sopranos a total of four times. During the first screening, you should not make notes; during the second, third and fourth screenings there will be an opportunity to make notes and there will be gaps in between for further note-making. Your notes should be made in the answer booklet and ruled through after you have finished writing your answer. Extract: The Sopranos (Pilot, 1999, dir. Chase) 1 Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs meaning through the following: • camera shots, angles, movement and composition • editing • sound • mise-en-scène. [50]

Section B: Institutions and audiences Answer one question from this section. Refer to specific examples from one media area chosen from: • film • music • print • radio • video games. 2 In relation to the media area you have studied, discuss the ways audience consumption has changed over time. [50] OR 3 To what extent is digital distribution vital to the media area you have studied? [50]

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Section A: Textual analysis and representation You will be shown an extract from The Handmaid’s Tale a total of four times. During the first screening, you should not make notes; during the second, third and fourth screenings there will be an opportunity to make notes and there will be gaps in between for further note-making. Your notes should be made in the answer booklet and ruled through after you have finished writing your answer. Extract: The Handmaid’s Tale (episode 1, 2017, dir. Morano) 1 Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs meaning through the following: • camera shots, angles, movement and composition • editing • sound • mise-en-scène. [50]

Section B: Institutions and audiences Answer one question from this section. Refer to specific examples from one media area chosen from: • film • music • print • radio • video games. 2 How significant has the spread of technology in recent years been for audiences? Refer to the media area you have studied. [50] OR 3 ‘The production of all media texts is driven by profit.’ To what extent do you agree with this? [50]

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Section B: Contemporary media issues Answer one question from Section B. You should refer to at least two different media and support your answer with reference to contemporary examples. Contemporary media regulation 2 To what extent does media regulation reflect its period? [50] OR 3 ‘It is impossible to regulate the media effectively.’ Discuss this view. [50] Global media 4 ‘The positives of global media outweigh the negatives.’ How far do you agree with this view? [50] OR 5 To what extent have global media created global culture? [50] Media and collective identity 6 ‘People don’t want positive or negative representations of themselves – they want complexity.’ How far do you agree with this statement? [50] OR 7 In what ways are representations of specific social groups resistant to change? [50] Media in the online age 8 To what extent have online media revolutionised traditional media? [50] OR 9 ‘We are all producers in the online age.’ Assess the evidence to support this statement. [50] Postmodern media 10 ‘Everything is playful in the postmodern text.’ Discuss this view. [50] OR 11 What, for you, is the most useful way of understanding postmodern media? [50]

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Section B: Contemporary media issues Answer one question from Section B. You should refer to at least two different media and support your answer with reference to contemporary examples. Contemporary media regulation 2 To what extent does media regulation reflect its period? [50] OR 3 ‘It is impossible to regulate the media effectively.’ Discuss this view. [50] Global media 4 ‘The positives of global media outweigh the negatives.’ How far do you agree with this view? [50] OR 5 To what extent have global media created global culture? [50] Media and collective identity 6 ‘People don’t want positive or negative representations of themselves – they want complexity.’ How far do you agree with this statement? [50] OR 7 In what ways are representations of specific social groups resistant to change? [50] Media in the online age 8 To what extent have online media revolutionised traditional media? [50] OR 9 ‘We are all producers in the online age.’ Assess the evidence to support this statement. [50] Postmodern media 10 ‘Everything is playful in the postmodern text.’ Discuss this view. [50] OR 11 What, for you, is the most useful way of understanding postmodern media? [50]

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Section B: Contemporary media issues Answer one question from Section B. You should refer to at least two different media and support your answer with reference to contemporary examples. Contemporary media regulation 2 Critically assess the arguments for and against greater regulation of the media. [50] OR 3 How far do wider social issues impact upon media regulation? [50] Global media 4 Critically analyse the ways in which institutions have developed global media. [50] OR 5 What kinds of media audience behaviours are global? [50] Media and collective identity 6 To what extent is human identity ‘mediated’? [50] OR 7 Assess the implications of different media representations. [50] Media in the online age 8 To what extent has convergence transformed the media? [50] OR 9 Evaluate the relationship between online media and democracy. [50] Postmodern media 10 Why might some media be described as ‘postmodern’? [50] OR 11 How far do postmodern media challenge the relationship between text and audience? [50]

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Section B: Contemporary media issues Answer one question from Section B. You should refer to at least two different media and support your answer with reference to contemporary examples. Contemporary media regulation 2 ‘Media regulation must adapt to technological change.’ How far do you agree with this view? [50] OR 3 To what extent can today’s media regulation be the same as that of the past? [50] Global media 4 Assess the arguments for and against global media in relation to representation. [50] OR 5 ‘The media are increasingly global.’ Discuss this view. [50] Media and collective identity 6 How far do contemporary media offer a diversity of representations of particular groups? [50] OR 7 To what extent do people today now have the power to represent themselves? [50] Media in the online age 8 ‘Media institutions have failed to adapt to the challenges and opportunities of online media.’ How far do you agree with this view? [50] OR 9 To what extent has the online age changed the behaviours of audiences? [50] Postmodern media 10 ‘Postmodernism is so much more than intertextuality.’ To what extent do you agree with this view? [50] OR 11 How far do audiences operate differently in a postmodern world? [50]