2025 UPDATED MAGAZINE UNIT EDUQAS GCSE: MEDIA LANGUAGE IN 'VOGUE' AND 'GQ'

ESSON 1-4 IN UNIT: This lesson is part of a 11 lesson unit (13/14 lessons with assessment time and peer marking in addition). It focuses on:

**NOTE: WHILST THE RAHEEM STERLING ‘GQ’ CAME ONTO THE EXAM IN 2024, THE MALALA ‘VOGUE’ COVER WILL NOT FEATURE IN AN EXAM UNTIL 2025 ONWARDS!
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-What is Media language?
-Contextual overview of ‘GQ’ and ‘Vogue’
-Retained learning task on key Media Lang terms applied to both covers top third.
-Readership and circulation
-Cover resource annotations with all the key magazine terminology needed e.g. masthead, skyline, kicker, course of the eye, flash button etc.
-Mode of address and anchorage text.
-Selection and Combination with application to unseen women’s magazine cover.
-Conventions of mens lifestyle magazines and lad mags.
-Theory checkpoint with differentiated help based on ‘Vogue’ and an unseen ‘Elle’ cover.
-A visual breakdown of menaing created in the ‘Vogue’ magazine cover.
-Mastery and step by step breakdown on what each part of the question is and how to attack it in the exam, I have also included a 15/15 exemplar response written by me on the same question for you to go through with students on the following question. This question is meant as an exemplar to model upon as it is on the old ‘GQ’ cover:

1.Explore how this front cover of GQ magazine uses media language to communicate meanings:

A. images [5]

B. text/written language [5]

C. layout and design. [5]

-Structured peer marking of assessment and green response task.

IMPORTANT: All resources have been included and separate sheets/ printable power point slides. Videos are embedded with a link in the notes section as well as additional help and tips on how it was delivered to the class.

H/W is a Fortnite-ly H/W sheet. We set fortnightly H/W in Media and we set it on the same day every fortnight and collect in two weeks later on the same day before we issue the new pack.It can either be printed or digitally set. It follows Dr. NO which is explained at the top of the sheet At the top you have a box:

BOX 1: YEAR GROUP/COHORT
BOX 2: FORTNITE-LY H/W SHEET IN THE SERIES
BOX 3: SET DATE
BOX 4: DUE DATE

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school is only providing Media Studies at GCSEl, as a three-year Course. Moreover, some of the tasks in lesson and for H/W are dependent upon owning the EDUQAS GCSE Revision Guide.

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