This attractive, high resolution poster gives a brief overview of all the theorists A Level Media Studies students really ought to know about.
The poster is A2 size, and can therefore be printed at A3 admirably.
There is a space at the bottom centre to add your school’s logo.
Brighten up your classroom and remind students of their requirement to name drop!
Includes RGB and CMYK versions.
Online Media: THIIIRD - WJEC/Eduqas A-Level Media Studies
Are you teaching A-Level Eduqas Component 2 Online Media? Immerse your students in the world of THIIIRD online magazine with this all-inclusive 10-lesson resource pack (90-minute lessons), perfectly adaptable for 10-12 sessions to suit your teaching pace.
This resource pack delves into the essential media framework and contexts, including:
Media Language
Media Representation
Media Audiences
Media Industry
Media Context
Engage with the theories of influential thinkers like bell hooks, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and others, while exploring key ideas in connection with Thiiird.
What’s Inside?
• 10 Complete Lessons: Each crafted with rich, interactive PowerPoints, embedded media, and activities that keep students engaged from start to finish.
• Comprehension Tasks & Mini Assessment Practices: Ensure that your students grasp key concepts effectively while building exam confidence.
• Set Theorist Articles: Deep dive into theorists critical for this unit, helping students to grasp complex ideas with ease.
• Sample Exam Response & Activity: Boost your students’ exam skills with a sample response, followed by a structured activity to refine their technique.
• Equip your students for success with this dynamic, ready-to-use resource.
• Creative Design Tasks & Group Presentations: Encourage students to unleash their creativity through design activities and work collaboratively on group presentations, developing both their understanding of media concepts and their communication skills.
Why You Should Purchase This Resource Pack
Designed specifically for A Level Media Studies students following the WJEC Eduqas curriculum, this comprehensive resource pack is both informative and accessible. The PowerPoint presentations are rich with essential content, and the accompanying worksheets give students the opportunity to actively apply their learning, making complex concepts easy to grasp and engaging to explore.
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Please note: I have also created a whole unit on the key concepts which you will find useful- priced at just £3.99 please follow this link: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/key-media-concepts-and-theory-full-unit-gcse-media-studies-as-media-studies-11710838
THIS RESOURCE is a one page Mat which explains each of the key concepts. Works best when enlarged to A3 and laminated in colour (great to reuse again and again). Each of the key media concepts explained in a student- friendly way.
Suited to higher ability GCSE students and all AS/ A2 students of Media.
M- Media Language
I- Ideology
G- Genre
R- Representation
A- Audience
I- Institutions
N- Narrative
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.
A Revision Guide for AQA GCSE Media Studies students sitting the 2025 exams. The guide covers every CSP and links to the Theoretical Framework for each text as well as covering media theories, past exam questions, glossary of terms and more.
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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Whole Unit of Work consisting of 73 Slides covering course content for BlackPink The Game by TakeOne/YG Entertainment based off the CSP booklet from AQA.
Tasks for students to work independently, exam questions included, links to BP Music Video CSP.
Covers all areas listed in booklet - whole CSP.
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.
A lesson focusing on breaking down Neale’s Genre theory and analysing key sequences from Scream and American Sniper (although any film products could be used). This is a set theory for Eduqas A Level media and this lesson is taught in line with this particular specification, but it is relevant to all study of film!
This is a full scheme of work covering all the required content for the set text Newspapers: The Mirror and The Times.
20 x 1 hour lessons, including 2 revision lessons and 1 assessment lesson. 114 Powerpoint slides.
Each lesson follows a similar structure:
Pre-Lesson flipped learning task
Review the students pre-learning through class discussion
Pose a ‘big question’ for the lesson
Connect/Bigger picture - Link to wider context and previous learning
Introduce new knowledge / re-cap theory
Identify and apply theory and concepts to the set text
Plan and write an essay/question response
Some modelling of answers
Pre-Learning task set for next lesson
IMPORTANT INFO: The lessons do refer to the Mark Dixon A-Level Theory book. This reference can be take out and adjusted for whatever source of information your students use for the set theorists.
A poster boiling down the theory in simple and easy terms with a worksheet to go alongside to help students create their own convincing characters. Useful for KS3 and KS4 English as well as Media Studies.
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.
This resource offers a comprehensive examination of the media industry, spanning a minimum duration of three hours. It delves into various facets, including:
Technology Convergence.
Cross-Media Convergence
Synergistic Partnerships (focused on marketing)
Key Terminology: Covering essential concepts such as oligopolies, monopolies, and integration etc.
Curran and Seaton’s Power and Media Industries Theory
The resource features a diverse array of activities and tasks, including:
Independent Study
Quiz
Exam Questions
Model Answers
Worksheet
Homework
While the primary focus is on analyzing the “How You Like That” music video by Black Pink, additional texts are also examined, such as:
Marketing materials for the “Black Widow” film.
BBC Radio One Breakfast Show.
“I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” music video.
This diverse selection of media texts allows for a rich and varied exploration of concepts and practices within the media industry.
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.
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A collection of theory handouts that I use to supplement the points taught in lesson via PowerPoint. Each handout summarises the main points behind the theory in a way which is designed to be useful for revision at the end of the year.
Have a close read as a couple have been personalised with my name which you may wish to replace with yours!
Hope these prove useful in relation to your own teaching, any feedback is appreciated.
Moral Panics and media effects, will need personalisation for groups and modernising as the years pass (as media moves so quickly) but good enough to get a Y12 group discussing what the media does to manipulate the audience.