Welcome to GCSE media studies. This new subject allows your child to embark on a wonderful journey of investigation and creation in the fast changing world of media. The WJEC Media Studies specification is designed to allow media students to draw on their existing experience of the media and to develop their abilities to explore as well as to create media. It will enable students to investigate and create a wide variety of media, including digital media technologies, drawing on the fundamental concepts informing the study of the media: texts, organisations and audiences/users/consumers. These concepts are reflected in the specification’s framework for exploring and creating all media.
Assessment:
Unit 1: Written examination 40% (2 hours 15 minutes)
All questions are compulsory and targeted at the full range of GCSE grades.
•Section A will require students to respond to stimulus material which can be audio visual or print with reference to media studies framework (text, organisations and audience). Four questions will be asked.
•Section B will be a creative task (planning) reflecting the convergent nature of the topic.
For the 2012 exam the topic is Music focusing on industrial websites and magazines
Unit 2: Controlled Assessment 60%
•Two textual investigations 400-850 words (20%). One to be based on genre and one based on either narrative or representation. One of the two investigations must be print based.
•One production that reflects research, planning stages, the production itself and a final evaluation (40%).