His Dark Materials GCSE Media Studies CSP 'City of Magpies'Quick View
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His Dark Materials GCSE Media Studies CSP 'City of Magpies'

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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. 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”
The Media and Voting BehaviourQuick View
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The Media and Voting Behaviour

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An up-to-date (March 2025) and accurate comprehensive lesson resources on the media and voting behaviour. There is enough material in here for a whole week of lessons and the PPT covers all types of media, including social media and questions around bias, persuasion and opinion polls. I am also including some worksheets looking at the key media impacts on the 1992, 1997,2010, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024 general elections.
Fake News Media LiteracyQuick View
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Fake News Media Literacy

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A detailed, engaging and well-differentiated lesson to encourage critical thinking (lasting 1-2 hours), focused on the growth of Fake News and ‘alternative facts’. These resources teach students how we must always use critical thinking skills when studying media material. Included: 1 - 2 hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, alternative facts reading comprehension, well differentiated, KS3/ KS4. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :) Or you can check out some of our most popular PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources below: Mental Health PSHE Bundle 1 Whole Year of PSHE Resources British Values Citizenship Bundle Careers, Employment and Enterprise Bundle Islam Bundle Sex and Relationships Education GCSE CITIZENSHIP 9-1
Anti-Social Media AssemblyQuick View
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Anti-Social Media Assembly

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This thought-provoking 27 slide assembly focuses on the popularity of social media, the harm it can have to an individual’s health and challenges students to make a positive change. This assembly covers: Popularity of social media Inspirational video A look at popular social media platforms with statistics (including: facebook, Instagram, snapchat and twitter). Time spent online statistics Social media and mental health Tips to use social media responsibly Second inspirational video Personal Reflection questions Please also visit my TES Assembly Store where over 100 assemblies are available on a huge range of topics. LIMITED TIME OFFER If you purchase this resource and leave a 5-star review, you receive any £3 assembly from my store FREE!! Leave a review and email Lee_Sullivan@hotmail.co.uk with your review confirmation and choice of assembly.
Experimenting with media and materialsQuick View
walneyi

Experimenting with media and materials

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This lesson will assist year 9-11 with GCSE experimentation using the theme of ‘War and conflict’. AO2: Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes. Creating a surface of coffee as a background to draw onto. This will take approx 3 lessons to complete to a high standard. Inspiration images of eyes included along side outlines for differentiation to trace if needed.
GCSE Media Studies His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies CSP bookletQuick View
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GCSE Media Studies His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies CSP booklet

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A comprehensive student work booklet for the teaching of the His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies (2020) Close Study Product for AQA GCSE Media Studies. The booklet itself covers the full course of study for the His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies (2020) CSP. The booklet is split into sections focusing clearly on Media Language, Media Representations, Media Audience and Media Industry; as well as relevant and appropriate media theory and contextual information throughout. Each section contains a variety of tasks for students to complete alongside the teaching of the His Dark Materials - The City of Magpies CSP. Booklet covers everything required by the AQA CSP Student Booklet and the AQA specification. Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child (1963) booklet also available.
A Level Sociology: Media Bundle 7192/2 AQAQuick View
Socio-Scholar

A Level Sociology: Media Bundle 7192/2 AQA

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The Complete Media Bundle for A Level Sociology offers a full, engaging, and exam-focused set of resources covering every topic required by the specification. It enables students to master the sociological study of the media through in-depth PDF summaries, visually dynamic PowerPoint presentations, and a range of skills-based and assessment-focused materials. Core content areas include: Media Ownership and Control, The New Media, Globalisation and the Media, Media Representations (of class, gender, ethnicity, age, and disability), Media Content and Audiences, and Media Effects and Audience Theories. Each topic is supported by comprehensive PowerPoint slides that break down theoretical perspectives (Marxist, Pluralist, Feminist, Postmodernist), key sociologists, and contemporary examples such as streaming services, citizen journalism, media moral panics, and the impact of digital algorithms on consumption. The bundle explores how media both reflects and shapes society, power structures, and identities, and how audiences actively interpret or resist media content. To build exam confidence and critical writing skills, the pack includes connectives worksheets, skills-based activities (e.g. PEEL paragraph practice, media text analysis, theory-application tasks), and essay planning templates. Each major topic comes with a focused podcast episode, offering accessible summaries of key theories, debates, and sociological applications—ideal for independent revision or flipped learning. The question bank features a wide range of exam-style questions and model answers, including 10- and 20-mark essay questions such as “Evaluate the view that media owners control media content for ideological purposes” and “Assess the impact of new media on audience behaviour.” A series of interactive quizzes reinforces key terms, theorists, and concepts through fun and formative assessment. Altogether, this full-course Media bundle equips students with the theoretical depth, real-world application, and analytical skill needed to excel in the media unit of A Level Sociology. It’s ideal for teachers delivering the course or students seeking a structured, content-rich, and engaging way to revise.
AQA GCSE Media Studies Workbook and Revision materialsQuick View
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AQA GCSE Media Studies Workbook and Revision materials

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Aimed at the GCSE AQA Media spec, the booklets contain resources and tasks to help students cover most of the major areas of the spec and the materials provided. Although some texts will change over each year those pages are easily omitted or make for excellent introductory material. A pack of resources including. -Revision Guide for Year 11 Media studies with range of tasks for all texts -Guide which covers most of the initial topics with information and tasks as a Unit of Work -A Homemade exam paper -A brief overview of the units and content for students Please feel free to check out some of my free resources to get a taste of what I make before you buy.
His Dark Materials AQA MEDIA GCSEQuick View
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His Dark Materials AQA MEDIA GCSE

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This resource comprises of differentiated tasks and activities, and PowerPoint presentations in relation to the industry and audience areas of the theoretical framework of media. (His Dark Materials) Industry Audiences Quiz on all areas of the theoretical framework of media (information that can be used to create lessons for media language and representations) Homework Theory application Creative tasks Exam questions with sentence starters, mark schemes, assessments objectives Article and video links In-depth study Clear specification links
His Dark Materials AUDIENCE AQA MEDIA GCSEQuick View
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His Dark Materials AUDIENCE AQA MEDIA GCSE

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This resource comprises of a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation includes the following: **(This is an in-depth study with a range of activities, differentiation, exam questions, clear links to the assessment objectives and specification, a wealth of information, theory application etc.) ** Specification Requirements Assessment Objectives Trailer and targeting audiences analysis Answers NRS social grades Psychographics Creative tasks Primary audience information Article reading on diversity and audiences Answers Audience appeal mindmap and worksheet Answers Opinions of the TV adaption with video link and questions Review and reactions tasks Reflection questions with answers Mindmap on reactions of audiences who have not read the book with prompts and answers Creative task Recap quiz Opening scene viewing with questions and challenge and answers Group work on how target audiences influence scheduling, marketing, and distribution of media products Answer sheet for teacher Homework task Uses and gratifications theory Exam question with paragraph structure, sentence starters, mark scheme, exemplars Stuart Hall reception theory with task and answers RAGs assessment
His Dark Materials INDUSTRY AQA MEDIA GCSEQuick View
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His Dark Materials INDUSTRY AQA MEDIA GCSE

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This resource comprises of two worksheets and a PowerPoint presentation. This PowerPoint presentation comprises of the following: Specification Requirements Assessment Objectives Product Contexts Worksheet with most of the companies involved in the series Independent study on rights to popular fiction and adaption Answers for self assessment Starter activity on research on public service broadcaster and BBC Answers Public service broadcaster in a modern world - article read and tasks Mind map in the modern world Worksheet on how the series meets the BBC’s requirements Answers Reflection questions Video links on production and note taking Group work on different areas of collaboration Prompt questions Worksheet Answer sheet Recap quiz HBO contexts Recap questions on collaboration Answers Article with questions (pair activity) Answers Fill in the blanks activity for more able and low able Independent study activity on funding and commissioning Answers for self-assessment Video on the future of TV with questions Answers Group work on benefits and challenges of convergence in television Prompt questions Answers Worksheet Answers Exam question with paragraph structure, sentence starters, exemplar and mark scheme Questions on regulation Answers Information on watershed BBC regulation Ofcom with research activity and answers Group work on regulation with prompts, worksheet, and answers Recap quiz
2024+ Daily Mirror and The Times GCSE Media Studies Newspaper CSPQuick View
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2024+ Daily Mirror and The Times GCSE Media Studies Newspaper CSP

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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 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”
GCSE AQA Media Studies (9-1) Revision BookletQuick View
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GCSE AQA Media Studies (9-1) Revision Booklet

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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. These resources support the popular CSP resources that are on TES. Reviews have stated: “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! Excellent AS Eduqas revision tool. 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”
AQA media studies A level Film Blinded By the LightQuick View
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AQA media studies A level Film Blinded By the Light

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Full lessons and tasks on: Film – Blinded by the Light: (Gurinder Chadha, UK, 2019) This is a Targeted Close Study product for which you will need to focus on the following areas of the Theoretical Framework: • Media Industries Students are not required to watch the film for the assessment Film: Blinded by the Light is an example of low-medium budget film making. Students do not need to watch the film but will need to be familiar with the production context and distribution materials including: o website(BenditNetworks) o website(Warners) o posters o trailer osocialmediapresence(twitter,Instagram,facebooketc). The film should only be studied in relation to Media Industries.
R093 Creative iMedia in the Media Industry WorkbookQuick View
erickg

R093 Creative iMedia in the Media Industry Workbook

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This all-in-one workbook bundle covers every topic from the R093: Creative iMedia in the Media Industry unit of the Cambridge Nationals in Creative iMedia course. Designed to reduce your planning load while keeping students focused, this resource is ideal for lessons, homework, revision, and cover work – no computer access required! What’s Included: • Engaging workbooks and reading materials for each R093 topic area • Retrieval practice questions throughout to support spaced learning • Full answer keys provided for all tasks – great for independent or guided marking • Classroom and cover-friendly format – print full booklets or individual pages as needed Topics Covered: • Media industry sectors and products • Job roles in the media industry • Client requirements and audience segmentation • Research methods and data types • Planning documents used in media production • Legal and ethical issues, intellectual property, and regulation • Distribution platforms and digital file formats Perfect for: • Independent revision and self-study • In-class activities and homework • Retrieval practice and knowledge recall • Emergency or planned cover lessons – no IT required! Whether you’re delivering lessons, setting cover work, or preparing students for the R093 exam, this workbook bundle is flexible, ready-to-use, and built to support outstanding progress in Creative iMedia. Just print and go – everything you need in one place!
Media, Materials, and Processes: A visual guide to Art and Design Practical developmentQuick View
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Media, Materials, and Processes: A visual guide to Art and Design Practical development

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This resource is a comprehensive visual-procedural guide designed to bridge the gap between creative execution and pedagogical theory. It provides a structured road map for mastering materials and methods, translating complex artistic processes into clear, step-by-step instructions. By aligning practical “how-to” demonstrations with current educational frameworks, the resource ensures that every technique is grounded in purposeful learning outcomes. It is designed to foster both technical fluency and conceptual depth, making it an essential toolkit for educators and practitioners who value a rigorous, research-informed approach to art and design. Empower your classroom with a research-informed approach to making. This comprehensive resource is the definitive guide for educators looking to bridge the gap between technical instruction and pedagogical excellence. Designed specifically for teachers and curriculum leads, it transforms complex material processes into clear, visually-rich instructional units that fit seamlessly into any modern art and design curriculum. What is Inside: Visual Step-by-Step Guides: High-quality imagery paired with concise instructions to support diverse learners and foster independent practice. Framework-Aligned Pedagogy: Every method is underpinned by current educational standards, focusing on substantive knowledge, disciplinary skills, and procedural fluency. Scaffolded Learning: Strategies to move students from basic material exploration to sophisticated, intentional making. Classroom-Ready Tools: Ready-to-use processes for a wide range of media Why Choose This Resource? More than just a “how-to” manual, this guide provides the theoretical scaffolding necessary for deep learning. It saves hours of planning by providing a structured, professional-grade toolkit that ensures your students don’t just “do” art, they understand the how and why behind every mark. Elevate your teaching. Inspire their making.
Advertising and Marketing GCSE MediaQuick View
stacey86lyttle

Advertising and Marketing GCSE Media

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So, these are all the lessons I have done so far for this year's WJEC GCSE Media Studies exam. Hope they make sense and help you. Most of the images about ads are hyperlinked to the actual adverts.
MaterialismQuick View
duckboytom

Materialism

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An introduction to the idea of Materialism in a topic about Buddhism. Students reflect on what materialism is and whether they are materialistic