Practice Questions for Institutions and Audiences and a Revision Guide

With thanks to Renier Media for posting these Exam practice questions for G322's Section B:

‘Discuss the issues raised by an institution’s need to target specific audiences within a media industry which you have studied’.

‘The UK film industry, what must it do to flourish?’

‘Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within a media area which you have studied’.

‘What is the impact of New Media Technologies on the film industry?

This very useful British Film Industry Revision Guide is from Beauchamp College Media - "by students for students" - to "kickstart students" own  revision:

http://api.ning.com:80/files/k0wXSMcPfnloHFrX7aXyMuw*GrnEnMScDsjhgD0*ZNk_/BritishFlimIndustryrevision.pdf

For further revision for this paper, try this:
G322 Revision

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Institutions and Audiences (G322 Section B) Practice question and answer

Institutions and Audiences

Be able to compare your British Case Study with an American One. 20th Century Fox's Avatar would be a good choice.
It's a very good idea to be able to discuss differences in institutional ownership, production, scale, budgets, genres, distribution, exhibition, use of technological convergence, synergies, etc. Of course, you would need, first, to research the ownership of a major US studio, i.e. 20th Century Fox and a film recently released by this studio.

(See Section 2 of the Exam - it begins on page 8 of the Answer Booklet. Remember to scroll down further to read the Examiner's comments on both parts of the Paper afterwards.)
This is an exam question from last year followed by a higher level answer. To practice, why not plan your own answer to this question and see you your plan measures up to the essay answer.


Discuss the ways in which media products are produced and distributed to audiences within a media area which you have studied.
G322 Exemplar Cand B High Level answer

Mad Men Essay Questions

In the exam you will need to discuss two or more media forms. To keep things for now we will examine one text for now.

Q. How would you define Mad Men as a post modern text? And explain why you would give this programme this label.

or,

Q. Consider the ways in which post modern media challenge conventional relations between audience and text. Focus on Mad Men for your answer.

What follows is from page 39 of OCR's AS and A2

Syllabus

The four main prompt questions from the syllabus are as follows:

Post-modern Media

 What are the different versions of post-modernism (historical period, style, theoretical approach)?

 What are the arguments for and against understanding some forms of media as post-modern?

 How do post-modern media texts challenge traditional text-reader relations and the concept of representation?

 In what ways do media audiences and industries operate differently in a post-modern world?

Candidates might explore combinations of:

How post-modern media relate to genre and narrative across two media, computer / video games and new forms of representation, post-modern cinema, interactive media, reality TV, music video, advertising, post-modern audience theories, aspects of globalisation, parody and pastiche in media texts or a range of other applications of post-modern media theory.