A LEVEL MEDIA STUDIES: Actual June 2025 PAST PAPER 2: Evolving media. All
Assessment Questions & Mark Scheme [OCR H409/02]
Exam Resource Summary
The A Level Media Studies June 2025 Paper 2: Evolving Media (OCR H409/02) – All
Assessment Questions & Mark Scheme document combines the complete official examination
paper with its detailed mark scheme, providing a clear and comprehensive revision resource. This
paper assesses students’ understanding of how media forms, audiences, and industries evolve
across time and technology, focusing on areas such as media language, representation,
globalisation, digital convergence, and the changing relationship between producers and
audiences. Students are expected to apply theoretical frameworks, critical perspectives, and
case studies to analyse both historical and contemporary media texts across platforms like film,
television, music, and online media. The merged format places each question alongside its
marking criteria, giving clarity on examiner expectations, mark allocation, and strategies for
analytical and evaluative writing. This resource is essential for focused revision, self-
assessment, and developing critical media analysis skills, making it a key tool for preparation for
the May 2026 OCR A Level Media Studies Paper 2: Evolving Media examination.
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SECTION A
Media Industries and Audiences
1 Explain how ownership of media organisations can influence the film industry.
Use Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
(2021) to support your answer.
In your answer you must also consider how economic contexts can influence the film industry.
[15]
2 Explain how video game producers reflect the needs of mass and niche audiences.
Use Animal Crossing: New Horizons to support your answer. [15]
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SECTION B
Long Form Television Drama
In Question 3 use your knowledge and understanding from your full course of study, including
different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts.
You have studied two set episodes of long form television dramas: one from List A and one from
List B.
Use examples from both long form television dramas you have studied to support your answer.
List A List B
Mr Robot Lupin
(Season 1, Episode 1) (Season 1, Episode 1)
Killing Eve Money Heist / La Casa de Papel
(Season 1, Episode 1) (Season 1, Episode 1)
Atypical Trapped
(Season 1, Episode 1) (Season 1, Episode 1)
Stranger Things Deutschland 83
(Season 1, Episode 1) (Season 1, Episode 1)
3* ‘No matter where they are made, long form television dramas must be realistic to succeed.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
In your response, you must:
• explain the contexts in which long form television dramas are produced and consumed
• explain how media contexts may have influenced representations of reality in the set
episodes you have studied
• refer to academic ideas and arguments
• make judgements and reach conclusions about the reasons for similarities and differences in
representations of reality between the two episodes. [30]
4 Evaluate the usefulness of one of the following theories in understanding long form television
drama:
EITHER
• Lévi-Strauss’s theories about Structuralism
OR
• Baudrillard’s theories about Post-Modernism. [10]
END OF QUESTION PAPER
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Assessment Questions & Mark Scheme [OCR H409/02]
Exam Resource Summary
The A Level Media Studies June 2025 Paper 2: Evolving Media (OCR H409/02) – All
Assessment Questions & Mark Scheme document combines the complete official examination
paper with its detailed mark scheme, providing a clear and comprehensive revision resource. This
paper assesses students’ understanding of how media forms, audiences, and industries evolve
across time and technology, focusing on areas such as media language, representation,
globalisation, digital convergence, and the changing relationship between producers and
audiences. Students are expected to apply theoretical frameworks, critical perspectives, and
case studies to analyse both historical and contemporary media texts across platforms like film,
television, music, and online media. The merged format places each question alongside its
marking criteria, giving clarity on examiner expectations, mark allocation, and strategies for
analytical and evaluative writing. This resource is essential for focused revision, self-
assessment, and developing critical media analysis skills, making it a key tool for preparation for
the May 2026 OCR A Level Media Studies Paper 2: Evolving Media examination.
Turn over
, 2
SECTION A
Media Industries and Audiences
1 Explain how ownership of media organisations can influence the film industry.
Use Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
(2021) to support your answer.
In your answer you must also consider how economic contexts can influence the film industry.
[15]
2 Explain how video game producers reflect the needs of mass and niche audiences.
Use Animal Crossing: New Horizons to support your answer. [15]
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, 3
SECTION B
Long Form Television Drama
In Question 3 use your knowledge and understanding from your full course of study, including
different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts.
You have studied two set episodes of long form television dramas: one from List A and one from
List B.
Use examples from both long form television dramas you have studied to support your answer.
List A List B
Mr Robot Lupin
(Season 1, Episode 1) (Season 1, Episode 1)
Killing Eve Money Heist / La Casa de Papel
(Season 1, Episode 1) (Season 1, Episode 1)
Atypical Trapped
(Season 1, Episode 1) (Season 1, Episode 1)
Stranger Things Deutschland 83
(Season 1, Episode 1) (Season 1, Episode 1)
3* ‘No matter where they are made, long form television dramas must be realistic to succeed.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
In your response, you must:
• explain the contexts in which long form television dramas are produced and consumed
• explain how media contexts may have influenced representations of reality in the set
episodes you have studied
• refer to academic ideas and arguments
• make judgements and reach conclusions about the reasons for similarities and differences in
representations of reality between the two episodes. [30]
4 Evaluate the usefulness of one of the following theories in understanding long form television
drama:
EITHER
• Lévi-Strauss’s theories about Structuralism
OR
• Baudrillard’s theories about Post-Modernism. [10]
END OF QUESTION PAPER
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Oxford Cambridge and RSA
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Acknowledgements Booklet. This is produced for each series of examinations and is freely available to download from our public website (www.ocr.org.uk) after the live examination series.
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opportunity.
For queries or further information please contact The OCR Copyright Team, The Triangle Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8EA.
OCR is part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge.
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