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AQA AS Media Studies MEST1 Section A Frozen Planet Exemplar

Caroline Bagshaw | Wednesday March 19, 2014

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Summer 2013 MEST1 Section A

The Summer 2013 AQA Media Studies A/S Level MEST 1 paper was based on a moving image clip from the BBC.  As always with these papers, students should be taught to carefully interrogate the introductory details. One way to do this is to see how well they can answer the questions without even seeing the clip!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zj35p/frozen-planet-4-autumn

Here they were given the following information:

You are about to see a short sequence from Frozen Planet, first broadcast on BBC One and BBC One HD at 9.00 pm on Wednesday 16 November 2011, and also made available to watch online via BBC iPlayer.

As part of the most watched natural history series in the UK, this episode attracted over seven million viewers.

Institutional Context

Shot over four years in high definition at a cost of £16 million, the seven-part nature documentary series explored the Arctic and the Antarctic. The end of each episode contained an extra section called ‘Freeze Frame’, showing behind the scenes footage of the production team in action.

Made in association with the Open University, the series was presented by Sir David Attenborough. Frozen Planet has been highly praised, particularly…


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