Paper 1 Section B: industries and audiences questions — AQA GCSE Media Studies 8572
AQA GCSE Media Studies · 8572
Paper 1 Section B: industries and audiences questions
Paper 1 questions
What you need to know
Section B's short and medium questions (2, 6 and 9 marks) on industries and audiences across radio, music video, newspapers, online media and video games, and film.
The 2025 questions on the advantages of a conglomerate making a film, how online and social media products are made commercially successful, and how the choice of personnel affects a film's production and marketing.
Reading command words and key terms precisely, such as personnel, which some candidates misread.
A question set out as AQA sets it, with its wording and marks, and a model answer with the level and mark an examiner would give and why, beside a weaker answer and what would lift it.
Timing: about half an hour for Section B, including the extended response.
Sentence starters and a short checklist of the steps, for students aiming at Grade 4 and above.
The Close Study Products for 2027 and 2028 exams are His Dark Materials ('The City of Magpies') and Doctor Who ('An Unearthly Child'); the Daily Mirror and The Times; Marcus Rashford's and Kim Kardashian's online presence; Lara Croft Go, with Blackpink The Game for 2027 exams and Lego Fortnite for 2028 exams; the Galaxy, Represent and OMO adverts; the Tatler and Heat covers; Black Widow and I, Daniel Blake; the Arctic Monkeys and Blackpink videos; and Radio 1's launch and Kiss Breakfast. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood was set only for 2025, so past questions on it are practice only.
Back readings of class, gender and ethnicity with specific evidence from the products, as the mark schemes reward.
