Revision Recap I

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Component one is called Media Products, Industries and Audiences. And features two sections. The first, section A is unseen material (print/audiovisual text) this is an opportunity to explore media language and representation. Meanwhile, Section B is about industry and audience and you use /your own/ case studies to answer it.

The Industries that might pop up in each section:
Section A: Advertising, music videos, newspapers. Section B: Advertising, newspapers, film industry, radio, videogames.

Component two is called Media forms and Products in-depth, which will have three questions, with the same products that come up every year. The questions focus upon one or more of media language, representation, industry and audience.

Component three is a cross-media production, of which we've already practically entirely finished. :)

Component one: Media Products, Industries and Audiences

Component two: Media Forms and Products in Depth


Component three: Cross-Media Production

Two hours and fifteen minutes long – 90 marks – 35%

Two hours and thirty minutes long – 90 marks – 35%

60 marks – 30%

Section A: analysing media language and representation 

(approx. one hour and thirty minutes) – 45 marks

Section A: Television in the global age (approx. fifty minutes)

Aims and intentions – 10 marks

Section B: analysing media industries and audiences 

(approx. forty-five minutes) – 45 marks

Section B: Magazines: mainstream and alternative media (approx.. fifty minutes)

Music video and magazine – 50 marks


Section C: media in the online age (approx. fifty minutes)


reminder: bookmarked revision guide at page 15.

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