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.
Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Magazine unit on Tatler. The 34 slide, 7 lesson resource includes all resources and seven lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Tatler and the nature of its target audience.
Lesson 2 and 3: Completing a detailed semiotic analysis of the Tatler front cover including verbal, non-verbal and technical codes. Also, the codes and conventions of magazine design.
Lesson 4: Modelled semiotic analysis of an unseen magazine media product.
Lesson 5: An analysis of the narrative structures using media theories including Propp, Todorov and Barthes.
Lesson 6: How groups, people and events are represented in Tatler and why.
Lesson 7: Comparing Tatler to Heat. Practice examination questions.
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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 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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These excellent resources work perfectly in any media studies classroom! I have used these posters as wall displays, learning mats and hand outs when students are completing classwork/ coursework. My current head teacher commented on these resources stating they were “the best resources” he has seen in the classroom.
My students find them incredibly helpful during lessons especially during assessment/ coursework and revision work.
**The documents include: **
An introduction to Audience (Mass, Niche, Primary + Secondary target audience, demographic and psychometrics).
A guide to audience theories (VALS and Young and Rubicam).
Audience theories (Audience positioning, Stuart Halls Encoding and Decoding theory).
A guide to Uses and Gratification Theory
A guide to Representation
A guide to Todorov’s Narrative Theory (Including clear example, Monsters Inc)
A guide to Propp’s Character Theory
Magazine Terminology
I remember being taught media studies at GCSE and A Level and wished I had resources like this to support me when completing assessment work. I hope your students enjoy them to.
Leave a review and any suggestions for new learning mats and I’ll continue to plan and develop these resources.
Ideal for AQA GCSE Media Studies SOWs. 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?
An introduction to media
Tier 2 + 3 vocabulary
Media theories
Key media theories
Camera shots + angles
Advertising
Magazines
Radio (BBC Radio 1)
Radio (KISS FM)
Film marketing
Music videos
Newspapers
TV drama
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
Resources for the Close Study Product for the AQA GCSE Media Studies course (first teaching September 2021). Designed for AQA, and anyone examining the Magazine unit on Heat. The 48 slide, 7 lesson resource includes all resources and seven lesson’s work (with possible expansion) and pupil questions/activities. Download also includes a knowledge checklist for the CSPs.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Heat and the nature of its target audience. Also, introduction to the celebrities on the cover and the context of the stories.
Lesson 2 and 3: Completing a detailed semiotic analysis of the Heat front cover including verbal, non-verbal and technical codes.
Lesson 4: The values and beliefs of Heat magazine.
Lesson 5: An analysis of the narrative structures using media theories including Propp, Todorov Levi-Strauss and Barthes.
Lesson 6: How groups, people and events are represented in Heat and why.
Lesson 7: Comparing Heat to Tatler. Practice examination questions.
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”
This resource comprises of SOW exploring Theory, Media Language, Representation, Industry, Audiences and Contexts. Each lesson (five in total) is planned for a duration of 80 minutes).
This is a 22 slide powerpoint that teaches the A-Level Media Language concept of Postmodernism.
It explores Modernism, then goes on to explain the concepts of:
Intertextuality
Pastiche
Parody
Bricolage
Hybridity
Self-Reflexivity
Hyperreality (Baudrillard)
Versimilitude
Put in simplistic ways in which students can understand. This can then be supplemented by further reading AND application to your own set texts from whichever exam board you are with.
A revision resource for A Level Media Studies focused on the WJEC Eduqas specification and the theorists listed in the exam board Teaching Guides.
I encourage my students to highlight the sections on the sheet as we cover the material. It also serves as a basis for checking knowledge later on. It is designed to fit on a single side of A4 paper, though it scales decently to A3 for displaying.
The two-page resource summarises each theoretical viewpoint briefly and organises the theorists according to the appropriate theoretical framework.
This resource pairs reasonably well with the A Level Media Studies - Exams Structure and Theories knowledge organiser available on the store.
Both the .pdf and the .pub are included so that you can customise it to your teaching groups.
A model response produced by an experienced Eduqas A Level Examiner. This is a four part question totalling 25 marks for Industries, focusing on ‘Black Panther’.
a) = 2 marks
b) = 10 marks
c) = 1 mark
d) = 12 marks
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.
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies Revision tasks. This resource has been made for year 11 students to complete over the easter holidays. It has 15 days worth of revision tasks focusing on both Component 1 and Component 2 - suitable for 2024 examinations. It also has all of the links to the facts sheets given by the exam board and all past examination questions.
The products are:
GQ - Raheem Stirling
Pride - Naomie Harris
The Guardian - Boris Johnson
The Sun - Covid-19
No Time to Die (poster and website)
The Man with a Golden Gun
This Girl Can
Quality Street
The Archers
Fortnite
The Sun - Online
The Sweeney
Luther
Bruno Mars (Online and Uptown Funk)
Lizzo (Online and Good as Hell)
Duran Duran, Rio
Ideal for GCSE Media Studies students or for basic skill reminders for AS and A Level Media. Definition and examples for most media terms and theories e.g. different camera shots and angles, editing and sound styles as well as key theorists such as Todorov and Propp.
A collection of media terminology complete with definitions to print and put on the walls of a media classroom. I have found the key words are the center of everything I do with me media class and they always forget them unfortunately, so I thought how can I change this? How can I make them more independent in finding out the information. I have placed this on a notice board and students now get up and go to the board to refresh their memories- It works really well.
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.
A useful guide about narrative theory, covering all the key players including Todorov, Field, Barthes and Levi-Strauss. Links to film clips, consolidatory notes about each theory. Please visit alevelmedia.co.uk for more links and resources. Narrative and Media Studies