OCR A-Level LFTVD Viewing Sheets

A useful OCR A-Level Media Studies resource pack containing viewing and analysis sheets for Stranger Things S1E1 and Lupin S1E1.

This resource pack is designed for OCR A-Level Media Studies Paper 2: Evolving Media, Section B – Long Form Television Drama. It supports students while watching or revising the two set LFTVD episodes: Stranger Things, Season 1 Episode 1: The Vanishing of Will Byers and Lupin, Chapter One.

The pack includes structured viewing sheets that guide students through key areas of the media theoretical framework, including media language, representation, audience, contexts and media theory. Students are prompted to make notes on camerawork, sound, editing, mise-en-scène, narrative, intertextuality, historical context, social context, stereotypes, audience appeal and streaming platform conventions.

The Stranger Things viewing sheet focuses on the 1980s setting, Cold War paranoia, Hawkins Lab, science and experimentation, nostalgia, intertextual references to 1980s media, gender roles, childhood identity and audience appeal. It also includes theory reminders for Steve Neale, Stuart Hall, Judith Butler and Reception Theory.

The Lupin viewing sheet focuses on the Louvre heist, French colonial legacy, class inequality, intertextuality with the Arsène Lupin novels, Assane as protagonist, gender roles, French national identity, Netflix global audience appeal and binge-watching. It includes theory reminders for Steve Neale, Stuart Hall, Judith Butler, Reception Theory, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes and David Gauntlett.

This resource covers:

OCR A-Level Media Studies
Paper 2: Evolving Media
Section B: Long Form Television Drama
Stranger Things S1E1
Lupin S1E1
LFTVD viewing sheets
Media language
Representation
Audience
Contexts
Media theory
Mise-en-scène
Sound
Camerawork
Editing
Narrative
Intertextuality
Nostalgia
Streaming platforms
Binge-watching
Cold War context
French colonial legacy
Class inequality
Gender roles
National identity

What is included:

Stranger Things A-Level viewing sheet PDF
Lupin A-Level viewing sheet PDF
Structured analysis prompts
Core episode questions
Context prompt sections
Media language note-taking boxes
Representation note-taking boxes
Audience note-taking boxes
Social, historical and political context prompts
Key theory reminder sections
Student spaces for applying theory examples
Useful key terminology word banks

This resource can be used as:

A viewing lesson resource
A first-watch note-taking pack
A revision pack for LFTVD
A homework or independent study resource
A cover lesson resource
A Paper 2 Section B support pack
A Year 12 or Year 13 Media Studies resource
A comparison preparation resource for Stranger Things and Lupin

This resource is provided as PDF viewing sheets.

This resource is independently created and is not endorsed by OCR.