AQA GCSE Media Studies Revision Guide - Revised Edition

In both exams you will need to show that you are able to: • Recall the information you have learned during the course. • Draw together information from the di erent areas of the course. • Apply your knowledge and understanding to the questions set, including analysing media products you haven’t seen before. • Analyse and compare products to show how they communicate meanings . • Write answers that show your knowledge and understanding of media issues . • Use specialist subject speci c terminology appropriately. Both papers will ask you to demonstrate and use your knowledge and understanding of the areas of the theoretical framework , historical , social , cultural and political contexts for the media , and to analyse media products . Media One Media One is divided into two sections: • Section A covers Media Language and Media Representations , testing your knowledge and understanding of any two of: • magazines • advertising and marketing • newspapers • online, social and participatory media and video games . • Section B covers Media Industries and Media Audiences , testing your knowledge and understanding of any two of: • radio • music video • newspapers • online, social and participatory media and video games • lm (industries only). Some of the questions will be about your CSPs. You will have an unseen source in the paper and some of the questions will be about that product. You are not expected to know about the product already. You will be using the analysis skills from your GCSE Media Studies course to write about the Media Language and Media Representations in that product. There could be further unseen sources elsewhere in the two exam papers. The paper will contain at least one unseen source – a media product that has not been set as a CSP, which can be reproduced in print form within the exam paper. Tip IMPORTANT NOTE Updated information on the CSPs is published each year by AQA. It is possible that some CSPs may be removed and replaced, so it is important that you check to make sure you are working on the current CSPs. 7 Introduction Copyright: Sample material