2023+ Heat GCSE Media Studies Magazine CSP

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.

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