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GCSE Media Studies.
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The theoretical framework: four ways to study the media
The theoretical framework: four ways to study the media
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Theme 1: Getting started in media studies
Theme 2: Media language
Theme 3: Media representations
Theme 4: Media industries
Theme 5: Media audiences
Theme 6: Media contexts
Theme 7: Media forms in focus
Theme 8: Producing your own media
01Theme 1: Getting started in media studies
3 lessons · 3 units
Unit 01
The theoretical framework: four ways to study the media
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Media forms and the products we study
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Analysing and writing about media products
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02Theme 2: Media language
11 lessons · 11 units
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Signs and meanings: introducing semiotics
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Technical codes: camera, editing and sound
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Print codes: layout, typography and colour
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Symbolic and non-verbal codes: mise-en-scène, dress and body language
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Selection, combination and exclusion
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Narrative: structure, character types and audience appeal
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Genre: conventions, repetition and variation
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How genres change: evolution and hybridity
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Technology and media products
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03Theme 3: Media representations
9 lessons · 9 units
Unit 01
Re-presenting the world: mediation and realism
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Producers' choices: purpose, positioning and bias
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Under-representation and misrepresentation of social groups
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Gender and representation: feminist perspectives
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Viewpoints, values and self-representation
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Why representations matter: themes, issues and news values
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Unit 08
Representations in context: changing values
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Unit 09
How audiences interpret representations
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04Theme 4: Media industries
7 lessons · 7 units
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Media production: who makes the media and how
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Ownership and control: conglomerates and integration
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Global media industries
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Unit 06
Regulating the media
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Unit 07
Regulation in the digital age
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05Theme 5: Media audiences
8 lessons · 8 units
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Mass, niche and segmented audiences
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Targeting audiences through marketing
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Reaching and measuring audiences
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Active and passive audiences
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Uses and gratifications: why audiences use the media
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Unit 06
Media, identity and fandom
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Different readings of the same product
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Unit 08
Changing audience responses over time
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06Theme 6: Media contexts
4 lessons · 4 units
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Media contexts: products and their times
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Social and cultural contexts
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Historical contexts
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Political contexts
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07Theme 7: Media forms in focus
15 lessons · 15 units
Unit 01
Television today: studying a contemporary programme
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Television from the past
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Crime drama: a television genre study
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Sitcom: a television genre study
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Unit 06
The magazine industry and its readers
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Unit 07
Newspaper front pages
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Unit 08
The newspaper industry
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Unit 09
Online, social and participatory media
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Unit 10
Advertising and marketing: adverts, posters and trailers
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Unit 15
Music online: artist websites and social media
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08Theme 8: Producing your own media
5 lessons · 5 units
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Responding to a production brief
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Research and planning
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Your production statement
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Creating your media product
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Unit 05
Working independently: original content and helpers
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