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WJEC A Level Media Studies
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WJEC A Level Media Studies: 12 months agoHi – I’m new to the WJEC Media spec and am a bit stumped on the MS1 paper in relation to the issues section – do you have to study a few issues?
Also do they have to be based around the representations or media texts studied in this section?
We were thinking of using the recent Twitter VS super -injunctions story ( linked to the regulation of…[Read more]
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Steve Murray posted a message in the group
WJEC A Level Media Studies: 1 year, 5 months agoAfter teaching both AQA (old) and OCR (new) specifications, I have now joined a college teaching the WJEC specification. My job is to improve grades considerably and there were some pretty poor exam performances last year. Hopefully, this group can provide a forum for WJEC teachers to share ideas, exemplars, experiences etc.
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Hi Steve,
We have WJEC and it seems to be going quite well. Our practical work for the AS students is a magazine project in which the students make a front cover and two double page spreads for the 1st edition of a new magazine. The magazine’s fictional celebrity (one of the students) is promoting a new commercial product which features in an…[Read more]
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Steve Murray created the group
WJEC A Level Media Studies 1 year, 5 months ago
Hi Jenny,
The MS1 paper normally asks about Audiences in Q2 and how/why they respond differently and then in Q3 it focuses on representations. These have often been social groups such as age, race or ethnic groups. Students should study a range of didferent exaples of representations and what factors effect these different representations (ie who…[Read more]