GCSE Media Studies (AQA)

20 free revision lessons in 4 units. Open the course or go straight to a lesson.

Media Language

How media products use codes, conventions, narrative structure and genre to communicate meaning.

1. Semiotics: Signs, Codes and Connotation
2. Selection, Combination and the Construction of Reality
3. Narrative Theory: Propp, Todorov and Audience Engagement
4. Technology and the Form of Media Products
5. Codes, Conventions, Genre and Intertextuality

Media Representations

How the media re-present events, social groups and ideas, and how audiences read those representations.

1. Re-Presentation: Selection, Construction and Mediation
2. Gender, Stereotypes and the Mulvey Male Gaze
3. Producer Choices, Persuasion and Misrepresentation
4. Viewpoints, Self-Representation and the Social Significance of Representation
5. Audience Interpretation and Hall's Reception Theory

Media Industries

How media organisations produce, distribute, fund and regulate the products audiences consume.

1. Ownership: Conglomerates, Mergers and Integration
2. Production Processes and Working Practices
3. Convergence and the Cross-Platform Media Landscape
4. Funding Models and Commercial Industries
5. Regulation, Digital Disruption and the BBFC, OFCOM, IPSO, ASA and PEGI

Media Audiences

How audiences are targeted, categorised, measured and active participants in the meaning of media products.

1. Active and Passive Audiences and Uses & Gratifications Theory
2. Targeting Audiences: Marketing, Trailers and Viral Campaigns
3. Categorising and Measuring Audiences
4. Reception, Active Audiences and Aberrant Readings
5. Media Practices, Identity and Fandom

How to revise Media Studies

• Retrieval Practice
• Spaced Repetition
• Interleaving
• Dual Coding
• Elaborative Interrogation
• Knowledge Organisers
• Timed Practice
• Theory Application Drills

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