Monday 10 March 2014

MEST 1 Section B Case Study questions


MEST1 SECTION B CASE STUDY Past Questions

 

June 2012

 

Consider how imaginative techniques are used by media products from your cross-media study to attract and maintain audiences. Support your answer with reference to a range of examples from three media platforms.

 

Synergy is the process by which media institutions use a range of platforms to promote, sell and distribute their products. Assess the impact of synergy in your cross-media study.

Support your answer with reference to a range of examples from three media platforms.

 

January 2012

 

Evaluate how far audiences are able to represent themselves and/or their ideas and opinions in media products from your cross-media study. Support your answer with reference to a range of examples from three media platforms.

 

Evaluate how successfully media products from your cross-media study are promoted within and across media platforms. Support your answer with reference to a range of examples from three media platforms.

 

June 2011

 

'To be successful, media institutions have to use a variety of media platforms.'

To what extent is this true of your cross-media study?

 

'Our enjoyment of media products is influenced by the platforms we use to access them.' How far is this true of your cross-media study?

 

January 2011

 

How far have improvements in technology made a difference to the quality of audience experience?

 

Do the institutions in your case study have an equal presence on each media platform?

 

June 2010

 

'Audiences are becoming increasingly powerful in shaping media output.'

With reference to your case study, how far is this true?

 

'It is not the strongest that survive but those most responsive to change.'

How and why do media institutions continue to change?

 

January 2010

 

Identify how media products from your case study make links with other media platforms. What are the reasons for these links?

 

‘All media texts tell stories.’ In what ways is narrative used in the media products in your case study?

 

June 2009

 

‘Audiences are no longer just consumers of media texts but producers too.’

To what extent is this true of the media products in your case study?

 

Account for the similarities and differences in the codes and conventions used in the media products from your case study.

 

January 2009

 

To what extent do the media products in your case study do more than just entertain their audience(s)?

 

 

Consider the reasons media products from your case study are present across a range of media platforms.

 

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