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June 21

Section A: Textual analysis and representation You will be shown an extract from Agent Carter 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: Agent Carter (Marvel One-Shots, 2013, dir. Louis D’Esposito) 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 ‘Nowadays, everybody consumes media texts in the same way.’ Discuss with reference to the media area you have studied. [50] OR 3 Discuss the impact of funding on media products. [50]

June 22

Section A: Textual analysis and representation You will be shown an extract from Empire 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: Empire (series 1 episode 1, Pilot, 2015, dir. Lee Daniels) 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 ‘Everything in the media seems to be owned by a small number of very big companies.’ Discuss the implications of media ownership with reference to the media area you have studied. [50] OR 3 Discuss the impact of cross-media convergence on the media area you have studied. [50]

June 41

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 How effective are current regulatory practices? [50] OR 3 What are the arguments against more regulation of the media? [50] Global media 4 ‘The global audience for media has removed all local difference.’ Discuss. [50] OR 5 What are the arguments against global media? [50] Media and collective identity 6 ‘It doesn’t matter how the media stereotype social groups, audiences can decide for themselves.’ Discuss. [50] OR 7 Analyse the representation of a social group in contemporary media. [50] Media in the online age 8 To what extent have online media revolutionised consumption? [50] OR 9 ‘The online age has transformed media production.’ Discuss. [50]

Postmodern media 10 How far do postmodern texts challenge the audience to see things differently? [50] OR 11 Postmodernism has been defined as an historical period, a style and as a theoretical approach. What does postmodernism mean to you in relation to the media texts you have studied? [50]

June 42

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 How effective are current regulatory practices? [50] OR 3 What are the arguments against more regulation of the media? [50] Global media 4 ‘The global audience for media has removed all local difference.’ Discuss. [50] OR 5 What are the arguments against global media? [50] Media and collective identity 6 ‘It doesn’t matter how the media stereotype social groups, audiences can decide for themselves.’ Discuss. [50] OR 7 Analyse the representation of a social group in contemporary media. [50] Media in the online age 8 To what extent have online media revolutionised consumption? [50] OR 9 ‘The online age has transformed media production.’ Discuss. [50] Postmodern media 10 How far do postmodern texts challenge the audience to see things differently? [50] OR 11 Postmodernism has been defined as an historical period, a style and as a theoretical approach. What does postmodernism mean to you in relation to the media texts you have studied? [50]

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The total duration of this paper is 2 hours. The first 30 minutes will be spent watching and making notes on the moving image extract. After the 30 minutes of screening and note-making time, you should use 45 minutes to answer Section A before moving on to spend the last 45 minutes on Section B. Section A: Textual analysis and representation You will be shown an extract from Mr Robot 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: Mr Robot (series 1, episode 1, 2015, dir. Niels Oplev) 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 far is marketing important in the media area you have studied? [50] OR 3 How far is your own experience of media consumption typical of contemporary media audiences? Refer to the media area you have studied. [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 ‘Changes in technology have made media regulation impossible.’ Discuss. [50] OR 3 How does media regulation today compare with that of the past? [50] Global media 4 What kinds of media are increasingly global in terms of production and distribution? [50] OR 5 ‘With changes in technology, global media have become inevitable.’ Discuss. [50] Media and collective identity 6 How far do contemporary media offer any variety in their representations of particular social groups? [50] OR 7 Compare and contrast past and present media representations of a particular social group. [50] Media in the online age 8 ‘Online media may have given everyone a voice but this is just an illusion of democracy.’ Discuss. [50] OR 9 How has the online world changed the media? [50] Postmodern media 10 To what extent do postmodern texts disrupt ideas about representation? [50] OR 11 How far are different versions of postmodernism evident in the texts you have studied? [50]