A whole SOW for the Crime Drama unit of study, which is part of the EDUQAS GCSE Media Studies specification. The SOW includes 10 lessons that focuses on the 4 different areas of the theoretical framework; media language, representation, audience and industry. It also includes a mid-term assessment.
A full bundle of lessons covering the complete range of theory, concepts and set products required for teaching A-Level Media Studies. This collection was originally created for OCR Media Studies and was fully aligned to the 2024 specification at the time of creation. All materials are fully adaptable and can be used to support any exam board offering Media Studies at A-Level or GCSE.
This bundle includes:
• Complete Media Theory content taught across all core areas required at A-Level
• Lessons covering key industries and media forms including Film, Television, Radio, Videogames, Print Advertising, Magazines, Newspapers and Online Media
• Detailed lessons and tasks for a wide range of close study products, including:
– The Jungle Book
– Stranger Things
– Forbrydelsen
– Minecraft
– The Guardian
– Daily Mail
– The Big Issue
– Old Spice print advert
– Lucozade print advert
– Shelter print advert
– New specification print adverts: Dove, River Island, Shelter
– The Radio 1 Breakfast Show
• A student NEA guide with clear, structured support for completing the print and music video options
This resource is ideal for departments seeking a comprehensive, adaptable set of lessons to teach all major areas of Media Studies at A-Level, with transferable content suitable for a range of specifications.
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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.
This fully editable worksheet is designed to match the specification and is perfect for homework, cover lessons, or independent study. Each task is carefully structured to help students consolidate key content, deepen understanding, and support effective revision. Ideal for home learning, retrieval practice, flipped learning, or in-class support. Ai was used to help create these accessible and engaging, this no-prep resource helps boost progress while saving teacher time.
Scheme of work booklet for Paper 1 Section A of OCR Media Studies: Newspapers Case Study. Focusing on Daily Mail and The Guardian.
Exam practice questions included throughout with an exam walkthrough section including question plans and exemplar answers at the end of the booklet.
Big question focus includes:
What is component 1?
What are the differences between tabloids and broadsheets?
What is the purpose of newspapers?
How is the newspaper industry structured?
How are news values represented?
How are print newspaper audiences targeted?
How do newspapers utilise media language?
How do newspapers incorporate viewpoints and ideologies?
What is online news?
How are online audiences reached?
How is media language used in online news?
How does online news construct representations?
Can I apply knowledge to a specific newspaper case study?
COMPARING COVERS - Examples for revision
What does Paper 1 look like?
What is Question 1?
What is Question 2?
What is Question 3?
What is Question 4?
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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Perfect for classroom display or student revision!
Bring Media Studies to life with this vibrant and accessible set of Media Theory Posters designed specifically for the Eduqas GCSE Media Studies course. These eye-catching posters simplify key media theorists and theories into student-friendly summaries, memorable quotes, and bold visuals – ideal for helping learners understand and recall core concepts.
What’s Included:
17 full-colour posters (A4 or A3 printable)
Each poster features:
• Name of the theory and theorist
• Simple one-sentence explanation
• Direct quote from the theorist
• Bold image for dual coding
Covers theories on representation, narrative, identity, media language, gender, race, and audience
Theorists Included:
Stuart Hall, Roland Barthes, David Gauntlett, Levi-Strauss, Propp, Dyer, Andrew Goodwin, Alvarado, , Dyer, Goodwin, Propp, Todorov, Blumler & Katz, Katz and Lasarsfield, Stanley Cohan, Steve Neale, Levi-Strauss, Mulvey, Van-Zoonan, and more!
Designed by a Media Studies teacher with over 25 years teaching experience, for use with mixed-ability groups – perfect for displays, revision walls, theory lessons, or student folders.
Printable PDF – ready to download and print at home or school.
Aligned with the Eduqas GCSE Media Studies glossary and exam content, but also suitable for other specifications (AQA, OCR) or KS5 introduction.
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Student work book with questions and information linking to Media Language, Representation, Audience and Industry and Powerpoint of the new curriculum.
Extended exam style questions and short knowledge questions.
Each lesson has:
Date and Title
Do now task
Questions
Key terminology
linked to the specification of AQA
Pictures/images of the Kim Kardashian
Independent tasks
Can be used with a power point.
Media theories in a nutshell - A3.
Perfect for a classroom display, or can be printed for revision support.
Covers all named theorists in Eduqas Media Studies A-Level Specification, as well as relevant Eduqas GCSE theories too. Colour co-ordinated into the different key areas of the specification: Media Language, Audience, Industries, Representation + GCSE.
Includes:
GCSE:
Blumler and Katz
Mulvey
Propp
Dyer
Alvarado
Goodwin
A-Level:
Barthes
Levi-Strauss
Todorov
Neale
Baudrillard
Hall
Gilroy
van Zoonen
hooks
Butler
Gauntlett
Curran and Seaton
Livingstone and Lunt
Hesmondhalgh
Bandura
Gerbner
Jenkins
Shirky
Hopefully there are none, but if you spot any errors, please let me know!
Scheme of learning for the Online Media unit of study as part of the Eduqas A Level Media Studies Specification. Each lesson is broken down by the key areas of assessment; media language, audience, representation and industry. Each area also covers key theoretical approaches.
Content Warning: some of the vidoes and other content taken from KSI’s YouTube and social media channels used in these lessons may be considered racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, etc. and will need to be shown at your discretion.
3 lessons worth of content.
Learning Intentions:
Define different TV Genres and their codes and conventions.
Define Hybrid Genres
Understand the audience appeal of different TV Genres
Create a guide to TV Genres
Exam-focused PDF of component 1 and component 2. \2026 AQA A-Level Media Studies prediction papers for Paper 1: Media One and Paper 2: Media Two. Includes full, unofficial revision papers in the style of the real exams, with a wide spread of likely question types across advertising, television, online media, video games, newspapers and radio.
This resource is designed for serious revision in the run-up to the exam. It gives students two full practice papers based on the 7572/1 and 7572/2 structure, with realistic timings, mark allocations and question styles. Paper 1 includes media language and representation work, industries and audiences, and longer responses on close study products including Sephora: Black Beauty is Beauty, Old Town Road, The Daily Mail, The War of the Worlds and Newsbeat. Paper 2 includes prediction questions on television, online and participatory media, and video games, with references to products such as Capital and Deutschland 83, The Responder and Lupin, Taylor Swift, The Voice, Horizon Forbidden West and The Sims FreePlay.
This 32 page booklet overviews the key media concepts and media language on Representation, Audience, Narrative, Genre, Ideology and Institution.
Representation and Audience are covered in detailed ( i will cont. to update).
There are also 5 pages that focus specifically on music video and music video theories.
Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Radio unit on KISS Radio’s Breakfast Show. 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 KISS and the breakfast show? Who are the Bauer Media Group? What Media Products do BMG own? Why are BMGs acquisitions so controversial?
Lesson 2: What is BMG Radio’s audience reach? What advantages does the cross-media ownership benefit KISS and BMG? What synergy exists between BMG brands?
Lesson 3: How is KISS funded? How is radio regulated? What are the broadcasting codes relevant to radio?
Lesson 4: How does KISS target its audience? How successful is KISS in reaching its audience?
Lesson 5: Why do people listen to KISS? What are the audience readings? What do active and passive radio audiences do?
Lesson 6: How has radio changed? How do this CSP and the Radio 1 Launch compare?
As reviewers have stated for previous Media Studies CSPs shared on TES:
“Just buy it!”
“Your resources have been life savers!”
“Well worth the money and really saved my life”
“I just wanted to say that as a non-specialist these resources are worth every single penny! Thank you so much for making and sharing them.”
“Blown away by this! Can’t thank you enough!”
“They have saved me a huge amount of time and the detail that goes into your work is second to none. You put others to shame who charge twice as much for very little. Can’t thank you enough.”
“Your new spec resources are saving me hours & hours of work! Thanks, they are really good.”
“These resources are so useful - I cannot tell you how much time they have save me - very clear to follow and easy to adapt for revision material — well worth the money”
A comprehensive 37 slide presentation on the brand new AQA CSP product 'BlackPink The Game (BPTG) added to the course in 2024.
This presentation looks exclusively at the game through the theoritical framework of Media REPRESENTATIONS.
This resource also contains multiple video files of gameplay.
I will be uploading further presentations for the other study areas.
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
A full SOW looking at the Voice online. Directs through all frameworks - including examples from the site (from 2022). There are exam questions included and all relevent theory and context is explored here, including the Notting Hill Carnival and the relation to the online paper.
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.
An A5 glossary that covers some of the key terminology for each of the media platforms covered in AQA Media Studies (print, broadcast and e-media). Each term has a definition alongside, perfect for revision and a great resource to hand out at the start of the year!