AQA GCSE Media Studies Revision Guide - Revised Edition

You may also nd print versions of one or more of your CSPs, with related questions. However, questions about the CSPs may not include visual support, so you will need to revise the products themselves to be able to answer them. You will not know which two media forms have been chosen for each section of the paper, so ensure you know all the CSPs. Short-answer questions will often test your understanding of terminology, such as the word ‘ connoted ’ in Knowledge Check 0.1. In this example, the key term is used within the question, and your answer will show that you understand the terminology. You may also be asked directly what a key term means and be expected to provide a de nition. Short-answer question example: Briefly explain what is meant by the term ‘stereotype’. [2 marks] Longer-answer questions in this section will usually ask you to present an analysis of a product; this could be on an unseen source or one of your CSPs. This analysis could focus on a speci c aspect such as narrative or gender representation . It could also be a more open-ended question, giving you the opportunity to choose which elements to discuss. You may have found from your lessons that there can be more than one ‘correct’ approach and more than one ‘correct’ answer when you are analysing media products . Knowledge Check 0.2 An analysis question for the Age UK advert on page 8 could be: Analyse the Age UK advert to show how different elements communicate meaning. [12 marks] If you had to write a 200-word analysis in response to this, which aspects would you choose to write about? Knowledge Check 0.3 9 Introduction Copyright: Sample material