Dear All Media Studies Students,

We hope your revision is going well, we have made an additional mock paper you can use to practise today or
Monday right before your exam.
Best of Luck,
The Media team

General Certificate of Secondary Education

June 2015
48101
Media Studies
Unit 1
Topic

Investigating the Media

TV News

In the style of

AQA

Monday 15 June 2015 PM

You will need:
-Lined Paper
-Copy of the breif
-Design Task Booklet (inside-enclosed)
-drawing pencils and colouring pens.
Time Allowed
1 hour 30 minutes

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Answer all tasks

All tasks carry equal marks
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1 It is said that TV News struggles to reach its audience due to:

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new media and e-media platforms

the increasing need to entertain the audience as well as to inform them

less interaction with the audience

Using these and other ideas drawn fromm your research, explain why TV News struggles to
reach its audience. We need specific examples from different News Institutions.
[15 marks]

2 We need your suggestions for the new Television News Programme called News Burst.

3 A key ingridient of our new Television News programme will be the uniquness of the format

4 Explain how your suggestions will lead to the success of the pilot episode of the programme.

Give us examples of the most suitable stories for our demographic as well as reasons why
you have chosen these stories. We also need ideas for the format and style of the pilot
programme.
[15 marks]

by which we will follow. Write the running order of the programme to illustarte how we will
engage the audience from the start.
[15 marks]

You may want to refer to the order by which you will present the news stories or how your
ideas help to engage the 16-24 year olds demographic.
[15 marks]
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RUNNING ORDER DESIGN SHEET

Name:................................................................................ Cand No.:...........................................
Centre No.:................................................
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: _____ MINUTES

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