WJEC • Media Studies
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Courses Media Studies at WJEC
Notes available for the following courses of Media Studies at WJEC
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Component 2: Television 1
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Media language 1
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MS1 - Media Representations and Responses 49
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MS2 - Media Production Processes 3
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MS3 - Media Investigation and Production 3
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MS4 - Media: Text, Industry and Audience 18
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Newspapers 4
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Paper 1 26
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Paper One 1
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Terms 6
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Theories 1
Popular books WJEC • Media Studies
Christine Bell, Lucas Johnson • ISBN 9781911208112
Latest notes & summaries WJEC • Media Studies
Crime drama: Hinterland 
QUESTION: With reference to Steve Neale’s theory of genre, explore how the television industry uses genre to attract audiences.
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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Stuart Hall: Tomb Raider & GTA• By lisajiang
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Crime drama: Hinterland 
QUESTION: With reference to Steve Neale’s theory of genre, explore how the television industry uses genre to attract audiences.
Crime Drama: Prime Suspect 
QUESTION: How does Prime Suspect use genre to attract audiences?
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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Stuart Hall: Tomb Raider & GTA• By lisajiang
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Crime Drama: Prime Suspect 
QUESTION: How does Prime Suspect use genre to attract audiences?
Crime Dramas: Prime Suspect and Hinterland 
QUESTION: Discuss the representation of gender in the two crime dramas you have studied and how it reflects social context. (Liesbet van Zoonen)
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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Stuart Hall: Tomb Raider & GTA• By lisajiang
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Crime Dramas: Prime Suspect and Hinterland 
QUESTION: Discuss the representation of gender in the two crime dramas you have studied and how it reflects social context. (Liesbet van Zoonen)
Different to the other Stuart Hall question. 
Video games: Tomb Raider & GTA 
QUESTIONS: With reference to Stuart Hall, analyse the idea that characters in the media are heavily stereotyped in the video game you have studied. (GTA)
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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Stuart Hall: Video Games• By lisajiang
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Different to the other Stuart Hall question. 
Video games: Tomb Raider & GTA 
QUESTIONS: With reference to Stuart Hall, analyse the idea that characters in the media are heavily stereotyped in the video game you have studied. (GTA)
Video games: Tomb Raider and GTA 
QUESTION: To what extent do video games contribute stereotypes in society? Use Hall’s media effects theory to explore the video games you have studied.
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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Stuart Hall: Video Games• By lisajiang
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Video games: Tomb Raider and GTA 
QUESTION: To what extent do video games contribute stereotypes in society? Use Hall’s media effects theory to explore the video games you have studied.
Video games: Tomb Raider and GTA 
QUESTION: Q. To what extent do the lines between reality and simulation blur in the video game industry? Use Baudrillard's theory to explore two video games you have studied.
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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Video games: Tomb Raider and GTA 
QUESTION: Q. To what extent do the lines between reality and simulation blur in the video game industry? Use Baudrillard's theory to explore two video games you have studied.
This was an incredibly in depth analysis of the Front Cover of Tomb Raider: Analysis done by me. Note, incredibly in-depth. 
 
QUESTION: How does the front cover of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary use media language to communicate to the audience?
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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This was an incredibly in depth analysis of the Front Cover of Tomb Raider: Analysis done by me. Note, incredibly in-depth. 
 
QUESTION: How does the front cover of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary use media language to communicate to the audience?
More in-depth compared to the other Bandura essay on Lara Croft. 
QUESTION: To what extent are video games harmful to society? Use Bandura’s media effects theory to explore the video game you have studied. [30]
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Albert Bandura: Video Games• By lisajiang
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More in-depth compared to the other Bandura essay on Lara Croft. 
QUESTION: To what extent are video games harmful to society? Use Bandura’s media effects theory to explore the video game you have studied. [30]
Video games: Tomb Raider and GTA 
QUESTIONS: 
1. How is media language used to appeal to audiences in video games? Explore the two video games you have studied in your answer? (GTA and TOMB RAIDER) 
2. How is media language used to appeal to audiences in video games? Explore the one video game you have studied in your answer? (GTA) 
3. How is media language used to appeal to audiences in video games? Explore the one video game you have studied in your answer? (TOMB RAIDER)
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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Video games: Tomb Raider and GTA 
QUESTIONS: 
1. How is media language used to appeal to audiences in video games? Explore the two video games you have studied in your answer? (GTA and TOMB RAIDER) 
2. How is media language used to appeal to audiences in video games? Explore the one video game you have studied in your answer? (GTA) 
3. How is media language used to appeal to audiences in video games? Explore the one video game you have studied in your answer? (TOMB RAIDER)
Henry Jenkins essay on Tomb Raider only. 
QUESTION: 1. ‘Audiences of the media are passive’. Using Henry Jenkins’s theory of fandom, explore the responses of an audience to the video game you have studied.
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WJEC•MS1 - Media Representations and Responses
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Henry Jenkins essay on Tomb Raider only. 
QUESTION: 1. ‘Audiences of the media are passive’. Using Henry Jenkins’s theory of fandom, explore the responses of an audience to the video game you have studied.