Resources designed to support the teaching of the 2001 film The Others and a related critical essay. Includes a PowerPoint (also included as a PDF file), worksheets, a talking task and a critical essay plan.
Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Magazine unit on Tatler. The 34 slide, 7 lesson resource includes all resources and seven lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Tatler and the nature of its target audience.
Lesson 2 and 3: Completing a detailed semiotic analysis of the Tatler front cover including verbal, non-verbal and technical codes. Also, the codes and conventions of magazine design.
Lesson 4: Modelled semiotic analysis of an unseen magazine media product.
Lesson 5: An analysis of the narrative structures using media theories including Propp, Todorov and Barthes.
Lesson 6: How groups, people and events are represented in Tatler and why.
Lesson 7: Comparing Tatler to Heat. Practice examination questions.
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Online, Social and Participatory unit on Marcus Rashford. The 55 slide 10 lesson resource includes all resources and ten lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSP.
Lesson 1: Who is Marcus Rasford?
Lesson 2: Why is Marcus Rashford a CSP? How has Marcus Rashford redefined celebrity through his online presence?
Lesson 3: Who is the audience for Marcus Rashford and why do they engage with his online presence?
Lesson 4: Analysing the codes and conventions of his social media channels.
Lesson 5: Analysing the official Marcus Rashford website.
Lesson 6: Audience positioning and narrative structures.
Lesson 7: Who selects the various representations of Marcus. The rise of social media managers and PR companies.
Lesson 8: The growth of social media companies and who owns them? Who regulates social media companies?
Lesson 9: How do social media companies make money? What businesses link with Marcus Rashford and why?
Lesson 10: Marcus Rashford, the political powerbase and public policy.
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A comprehensive guide for students sitting their AQA Media Studies exams in 2024.
All CSPs are covered with the key information broken down into the Theoretical Framework focus areas. The guide is written for students in easy to manage sections and the information is broken down into easy to remember chunks.
As well as information on the CSPs, the Revision Guide features Two Practice exam style questions per CSP, a glossary of terms, revision tips and key information and dates for the exams.
Ideal for AQA GCSE Media Studies revision (2023 onwards). Complete set of knowledge organisers for core areas of two-year course (exams from 2023 onwards- updated CSPs). 13 included- perfect for revision and retrieval!
What’s included?
8 revision/ practice questions on TV (HDM + DW)
8 revision/ practice questions on newspapers (the Mirror + the Times)
7 revision/ practice questions on OSPM/ video games (Marcus Rashford, KKH, LCG)
60+ key words/ terminology and definitions
Key media theories knowledge organiser
Camera shots + angles knowledge organiser
Newspapers knowledge organiser
TV drama knowledge organiser
Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Magazine unit on Heat. The 48 slide, 7 lesson resource includes all resources and seven lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Heat and the nature of its target audience. Also, introduction to the celebrities on the cover and the context of the stories.
Lesson 2 and 3: Completing a detailed semiotic analysis of the Heat front cover including verbal, non-verbal and technical codes.
Lesson 4: The values and beliefs of Heat magazine.
Lesson 5: An analysis of the narrative structures using media theories including Propp, Todorov Levi-Strauss and Barthes.
Lesson 6: How groups, people and events are represented in Heat and why.
Lesson 7: Comparing Heat to Tatler. Practice examination questions.
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Ideal for AQA GCSE Media Studies SOWs. Complete set of knowledge organisers for core areas of two-year course (exams from 2023 onwards- updated CSPs). 13 included- perfect for revision and retrieval!
What’s included?
An introduction to media
Tier 2 + 3 vocabulary
Media theories
Key media theories
Camera shots + angles
Advertising
Magazines
Radio (BBC Radio 1)
Radio (KISS FM)
Film marketing
Music videos
Newspapers
TV drama
A revision resource for A Level Media Studies focused on the WJEC Eduqas specification and the theorists listed in the exam board Teaching Guides.
I encourage my students to highlight the sections on the sheet as we cover the material. It also serves as a basis for checking knowledge later on. It is designed to fit on a single side of A4 paper, though it scales decently to A3 for displaying.
The two-page resource summarises each theoretical viewpoint briefly and organises the theorists according to the appropriate theoretical framework.
This resource pairs reasonably well with the A Level Media Studies - Exams Structure and Theories knowledge organiser available on the store.
Both the .pdf and the .pub are included so that you can customise it to your teaching groups.
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies Revision tasks. This resource has been made for year 11 students to complete over the easter holidays. It has 15 days worth of revision tasks focusing on both Component 1 and Component 2 - suitable for 2024 examinations. It also has all of the links to the facts sheets given by the exam board and all past examination questions.
The products are:
GQ - Raheem Stirling
Pride - Naomie Harris
The Guardian - Boris Johnson
The Sun - Covid-19
No Time to Die (poster and website)
The Man with a Golden Gun
This Girl Can
Quality Street
The Archers
Fortnite
The Sun - Online
The Sweeney
Luther
Bruno Mars (Online and Uptown Funk)
Lizzo (Online and Good as Hell)
Duran Duran, Rio
Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Film unit on Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Black Widow. The 27 slide, 6 lesson resource includes all resources and approximately 6 lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSP.
Lesson 1: What is Black Widow and what is the MCU franchise?
Lesson 2: Who owns Marvel [includes conglomerate, vertical and horizontal integration]. Genre analysis and impact on global sales.
Lesson 3: Representation and influence in the production of Black Widow and why. Analysis of Star Power. Examining the costs of production.
Lesson 4: How did Black Widow perform at the box office and why? Distribution channels used and the impact of the COVID pandemic.
Lesson 5: Film certification. The marketing and merchandising of Black Widow.
Lesson 6: Hollywood and the links to globalisation and cultural imperialism.
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A 48-slide revision package written to support the AQA GCSE (9-1) Media Studies course 2023 specification. This can be projected with the class, completed by the pupils in using computers or photocopied onto A4/A5 and used as a homework project.
The package deals with the key media theories outlined by AQA and links to the CSPs. It also covers key media language and terms linked to various CSPs with pupil activity involved. The final slides deal with key terms that may be assessed for 2 mark responses and then more detailed exemplar questions for 6, 8 and 12 mark questions.
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2022). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Newspaper unit on The Daily Mirror and The Times. The 73 slide, 12 lesson resource includes all resources and twelve lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to The Daily Mirror and The Times. The politics of the press and impact on content.
Lesson 2: Comparing tabloids and broadsheets including key media language terms and analysis of pages.
Lesson 3: Detailed Daily Mirror analysis and media language and representation.
Lesson 4: Detailed Times analysis and media language and representation.
Lesson 5 and 6: A semiotic analysis of The Daily Mirror and The Times using media theories including Propp, Todorov, Barthes and Levi-Strauss.
Lesson 7: Audience analysis of The Daily Mirror and The Times including using media theories such as Blumler and Katz and Stuart Hall.
Lesson 9: How groups, people and events are represented in The Daily Mirror and The Times CSPs and why.
Lesson 10: The changing nature of newspaper circulation and distribution.
Lesson 11: Ownership of The Daily Mirror and The Times and how they have adapted in the light of changing audience habits.
Lesson 12: Press regulation
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Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the TV series unit on His Dark Materials: City of Magpies. The 53 slide, 10 lesson resource includes all resources and ten lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSP.
Lesson 1: What is ‘His Dark Materials: City of Magpies’ and what are the key themes of the episode.
Lesson 2: Target audience analysis.
Lesson 3: Audience and Marketing/Promotion links. Character links to target audience.
Lesson 4: Audience response to His Dark Materials – including audience numbers, critical response and preferred/oppositional readings of His Dark Materials.
Lesson 5: A semiotic analysis of His Dark Materials – including CLAMPS.
Lesson 6 and 7: Media Language theory including genre, Propp, Todorov, Barthes and Levi-Strauss.
Lesson 8: Representation in His Dark Materials.
Lesson 9: The remit and funding of BBC. The production companies behind His Dark Materials. The BBC/HBO link. The multi-platform, multi-channel media landscape.
Lesson 10: Comparing His Dark Materials and Dr. Who.
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This is a 22 slide powerpoint that teaches the A-Level Media Language concept of Postmodernism.
It explores Modernism, then goes on to explain the concepts of:
Intertextuality
Pastiche
Parody
Bricolage
Hybridity
Self-Reflexivity
Hyperreality (Baudrillard)
Versimilitude
Put in simplistic ways in which students can understand. This can then be supplemented by further reading AND application to your own set texts from whichever exam board you are with.
A bundle which includes all the theory lessons for a reduced price.
Lessons 1 and 2 includes exam practice.
Good for teaching new theorists to students and a great revision tool. Teachers can insert theories into their lessons.
LO ON LESSONS 3 AND 4 NEED ADJUSTING- SORRY FOR THE MISTAKE.
This resource comprises of two lessons exploring: political contexts, industry, theory and application. Each lesson is planned for a duration of 240 minutes, thus four single lessons in total.
A model response produced by an experienced Eduqas A Level Examiner. This is a four part question totalling 25 marks for Industries, focusing on ‘Black Panther’.
a) = 2 marks
b) = 10 marks
c) = 1 mark
d) = 12 marks
An overview of what a media audience is and how they are categorised by media organisations. Key terms, fragmented audience and impact of new technology on audiences. Taken from www.alevelmedia.co.uk
Breakdown of adverts styles and links to A/V adverts. Activity on Guinness Advert 'noitulovE.'
Good for discussion.
Good for recap.
Using it with WJEC GCSE but covers the basics.