gcse media studies representation

GCSE Media Studies

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Introduction

GCSE Media Studies provides students the opportunity to engage all aspects of the media, including important theories of representation and audience. You will also be required to apply your knowledge of these frameworks through the creation of your own media products.

On this page, you can access the GCSE specification, past papers and mark schemes.

Summary of Assessment

There are two examination papers and a coursework brief to complete.

This written exam lasts for 1 hour 30 minutes. There are a range of questions relating to an unseen source and the Close Study Products. One extended response question is worth 20 marks.

Section A will focus on Media Language and Media Representations. Questions in this section can test any two of the following forms:

• advertising and marketing
• online, social and participatory media and video games.

Section B will focus on Media Industries and Media Audiences. Questions in this section can test any two of the following forms:

• music video
• online, social and participatory media and video games
• film (industries only).

This 1 hour 30 minutes written exam contains short, medium and extended response questions assessing depth of knowledge and understanding of the course.

Section A will be based on a screening from an extract of one of the television Close Study Products and can test any area of the theoretical framework.

Section B will be based on either newspapers or online, social and participatory media and video games and can test any area of the framework.

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Non-exam assessment (nea).

You have the choice of one of five annually changing briefs, set by AQA. You are being assessed on your application of knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework.

You need to produce a statement of intent and a media product for an intended audience.

Past Papers and Mark Schemes

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Assessment Objectives

The exams and non-exam assessment will measure how you meet the following assessment objectives.

AO1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the theoretical framework of media
• contexts of media and their influence on media products and processes.

AO2: Analyse media products using the theoretical framework of media, including in relation to their contexts, to make judgments and draw conclusions.

AO3: Create media products for an intended audience, by applying knowledge and understanding of the theoretical framework of media to communicate meaning.

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• Paul Gilroy
• Liesbet van Zoonen
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• The Bechdel Test
• bell hooks and Intersectionality
• The Cultural Industries
• Hypodermic Needle Theory
• Two-Step Flow Theory
• Cultivation Theory
• Stuart Hall’s Reception Theory
• Abraham Maslow
• Uses and Gratifications
• Moral Panic
• Camera Shots
• Indicative Content
• Statement of Intent
• AQA A-Level
• Exam Practice

Representation

• GQ represents itself as a magazine for men who have status and are a cut apart from others.

Successful and aspirational

• Sterling's success is connotated through his necklace, bracelet, and watch.
• These items appear on the upper half of Sterling's body in the absence of other clothing.

• This appeals to traditional expectations of men.
• This representation is a de facto stereotype of what men should be.
• With his muscles on display, Sterling represents the current trend of spornosexual men in media.
• Sterling serves as a highly positive representation for young, black men.

• The use of gold connotes wealth.

Progressive

• Belt bags are often seen as feminine.
• By offering approval, GQ is representing a metrosexual idea of masculinity.
• GQ represents itself as a more progressive force in the representation of men.

1.1 Media Language

1.1.1 Media Language

1.1.2 Media Language 2

1.2 Audience

1.2.1 Audiences

1.2.2 Audiences 2

1.2.3 End of Topic Test - Media Language & Audience

1.3 Representation

1.3.1 Stereotypes

1.3.2 Gender

1.3.3 Audiences

1.4 The Media Industry

1.4.1 Media Industries

1.4.2 Ownership

1.4.3 Funding & Regulation

1.4.4 End of Topic Test - Representation/Media Industry

2 Component 1: Section A

2.1 Magazines

2.1.1 Magazines

2.1.2 Pride

2.1.3 Pride 2

2.2.1 Context

2.2.2 Narrative

2.2.3 Representation

2.3 Advertising & Marketing

2.3.1 Advertising & Marketing

2.3.2 Analysing Adverts

2.3.3 Analysing Adverts 2

2.3.4 Theories & Principles

2.3.5 End of Topic Test - Magazines & Advertising

2.4 Print Advertisements

2.4.1 Quality Street

2.4.2 This Girl Can

2.5 Film Posters (Marketing)

2.5.1 Spectre

2.5.2 The Man with The Golden Gun

2.5.3 The Man with The Golden Gun 2

2.6 Newspapers

2.6.1 Ownership & Regulation

2.6.2 News Selection

2.6.3 Media Language

2.6.4 Genres

2.6.5 Newspaper Conventions

2.6.6 Representation

2.6.7 Audience

2.6.8 Theories

2.6.9 End of Topic Test - Newspapers

2.7 The Sun

2.7.1 Context

2.7.2 Narrative

2.7.3 Language & Images

2.8 The Guardian

2.8.1 The Guardian

2.8.2 Narrative

2.8.3 Language & Images

3 Component 1: Section B

3.1 Video Games

3.1.1 Video Games

3.2.1 The Big Six

3.2.2 Technology

3.2.3 End of Topic Test - Video Games & Films

3.3.1 The Radio Industry

3.3.2 Categories of Radio Station

3.3.3 Technology & Radio Audiences

3.3.4 Theories

3.3.5 End of Topic Test - Radio

3.4 No Time To Die

3.4.1 Context

3.4.2 Narrative

3.4.3 Representation

4 Component 2: Section A

4.1 Television

4.1.1 The Television Industry

4.1.2 Types of Broadcasting

4.1.3 Media Language & TV

4.1.4 Representation & Audiences

4.1.5 Theories

4.2.1 Sitcoms

4.2.2 'The Final Countdown'

4.2.3 Representation

4.2.4 The IT Crowd

4.2.5 Friends

4.2.6 Friends 2

4.2.7 End of Topic Test - Sitcoms & TV

4.3.1 Context

4.3.2 Media Language

4.3.3 Representation

4.3.4 Audience

4.3.5 Industry

4.4 The Sweeney

4.4.1 Context

4.4.2 Media Language

4.4.3 Representation

4.4.4 Audience

4.4.5 Industry

5 Component 2: Section B

5.1 Music Video

5.1.1 Music Videos

5.1.2 The Music Industry

5.2 Michael Jackson

5.2.1 ‘Black or White’

5.3 Taylor Swift

5.3.1 Bad Blood

5.3.2 Intertextual References

5.3.3 Media Theories

5.3.4 Representation

5.3.5 Social Media

5.4 Bruno Mars

5.4.1 Uptown Funk

5.4.2 Analysis

5.4.3 End of Topic Test - Music Videos

5.5.1 Context

5.5.2 'Good as Hell'

5.5.3 Media Language

5.5.4 Representation

5.5.5 Audience

5.5.6 Industry

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GCSE Year 1 Media

Monday 11 january 2021, magazines: representation and social contexts.

• The way the media portrays the world. 
• The media takes a story/set of facts and (re)presents them in a certain way. 
• In Media Studies we are particularly interested how the media portrays events, issues, individuals and social groups.
• Some groups are misrepresented (represented inaccurately) or under-represented by the Media.
• Media messages have to be communicated quickly which often means relying on stereotypes . 
• A stereotype is a standardised, oversimplified picture of a person, group, place or event.
• Stereotypes act like codes that give audiences a quick, common understanding of a person or group of people—usually relating to their gender, class, ethnicity or race, sexual orientation, social role or occupation.
• In print media (news and magazines), a picture editor selects the photo from a whole series of images to be used to illustrate a news story. The image may be cropped, resized and, in some cases, photoshopped so it does not reflect reality.
• A news editor will decide on the way the news story will be presented, and the use of captions to affect the meaning of the image. 
• Conventional:  typical, the usual, expected representation. 
• Subversive:  untypical or unexpected representation, differing from the norm. If a representation in the media is NOT what we expect, we say this subverts the usual stereotype in the media. 
• Stereotype:  A ‘set’ idea that people have about what someone or something is like (not necessarily accurate).
• Mediation:  process by which texts are presented and received.
• Representation:  how groups or events or individuals are presented / portrayed.

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