Paper 1
Section A: Television Section B: Promoting Media
The Exam
Component 01: Television and promoting media
Section A: Television Learners will engage with one in-depth study covering contemporary and historic television products, responding to questions covering the whole of the theoretical framework and a range of media contexts.
Section B: Promoting Media Learners will study media products from the same global conglomerate producer illustrating the media forms of film, advertising and marketing, and video games.
70 marks 1hr 45 minutes (including 30 minutes viewing time)
Written paper 35% of total GCSE (9–1)
Resources
The two set texts that you will watch and be examined on are:
Historic TV Drama: The Avengers (1965)
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Episode: “The Gravediggers” (Series 4, Episode 2)
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First broadcast: ITV, 1965
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Produced by: ABC Television (Associated British Corporation)
Contemporary TV Drama: Vigil (2021)
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Episode 1
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First broadcast: BBC One, 2021
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Produced by: World Productions (subsidiary of ITV Studios)
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Platform: BBC iPlayer and terrestrial broadcast
You can watch them here:
There are some excellent support videos here:
