Component 1 Question 1: media language — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Component 1 Question 1: media language
Answering the Section A questions
What you need to know
The 15-mark question on one set product, with a copy provided: usually split into parts on elements such as layout and design, images, narrative or genre, each with its own marks.
How it is marked (AO2: analysing the product with the framework), what separates the bands, and why every element of media language needs preparing for every product, including narrative and genre.
The 2025 question on the Quality Street advert (layout and design, then images) and the 2026 question on the GQ cover (narrative, then genre).
A question set out as Eduqas sets it, with its wording and marks, and a model answer with the band and mark an examiner would give and why, beside a weaker answer and what would lift it.
Timing: Section A has about 55 minutes, including 10 minutes to study the print resources.
Sentence starters and a short checklist of the steps, for students aiming at Grade 4 and above.
The set products for 2027 and 2028 exams are the Vogue and GQ covers; the Man with the Golden Gun and No Time to Die posters; the Guardian of 18 January 2022 and the Sun of 1 January 2021 (2027 exams only), then the Guardian of 6 May 2025 and the Sun of 22 March 2025 (2028 exams); the Quality Street and NHS 111 adverts; the Sun, Desert Island Discs, No Time to Die and Fortnite for industries and audiences; Trigger Point with The Sweeney, or Man Like Mobeen or Modern Family with Friends; and Lizzo or Taylor Swift, Stormzy or Justin Bieber, and Rio or Waterfalls. This Girl Can, The Archers and Luther were last set for 2026 exams, so past questions on them are practice only.
