Exam

(The information below is taken from the OCR Media Studies Specification)

The purpose of these units is to assess:
• Candidates’ ability to analyse and respond to a short, unseen moving image or print extract
using media key concepts and appropriate terminology (AO2)
• Candidates’ ability to recall, select, use and communicate their knowledge and
understanding of media products and the contexts of their production and consumption
(AO1) in analysing a short unseen moving image or print extract.

The examinations is 1 hour 45 minutes long. Candidates are required to answer four compulsory questions. The unit is marked out of 80, with Section A marked out of 50 and Section B marked out of 30.

Section A: Action Adventure Films
The unseen moving image extract (Unit B322) will be three–five minutes long.

The three questions will test the following key concepts:

1. Genre (identifying conventions)
2. Media Language (applying MECS - mise-en-scene, editing, camera and sound)
3. Representation 

Section B: Television Comedy 
There will be ONE compulsory question set out in two parts. This topic will test the following two concepts:
• Audience
• Institution.

We will have studied two different comedies from two different channels aimed at different kinds of audiences, that have been scheduled on British television channels.

The two comedies are:
• The Big Bang Theory (E4)
• Mock the Week (BBC2)

Set Topic Content
Candidates should be prepared to:
• Contrast two texts using Media Key Concepts
• Explain why these channels have chosen these texts to fit their institutional contexts
• Explain why these channels have scheduled these texts on certain times and days
• Discuss how these texts address their audiences, the nature of these audiences and the
pleasures that are offered by these texts.