Eduqas A-Level Media Studies media in depth and exams overview quiz quiz

Magazines as a print and digital form

Online media and social participation

Television in the Global Age

Radio as a long-running broadcast form

To make the written paper longer and harder to complete in time

Because British-made television dramas are banned from the specification

To avoid having to study representation in any of the set products

So the global dimension is built into the comparison

A mainstream title versus an alternative or independent title

An old vintage magazine set against a newly launched magazine title

A print-only edition compared with a purely online digital edition

A weekly publication schedule compared against a monthly one

Todorov and Propp (narrative structure and character roles)

Shirky and Jenkins (the participatory audience)

Barthes and Neale (semiotic codes and genre repetition)

Curran and Seaton on ownership and concentration only

Because he personally invented the internet and early social media platforms

Because his work was solely about the regulation of national newspapers

Curated online selves circulate simulacra and stage hyperreal authenticity

Because he is named on the prescribed media industries theory list

Only contemporary television drama studied across the whole framework

Only magazines and online media, with no other media forms examined anywhere in the paper

Only feature film as a single narrative and industrial media form

A breadth of forms: advertising, newspapers, radio, video games, music video, film

Social, cultural, economic, political, historical

Past, present, future, local context and global context

Camera, sound, editing, lighting and colour palette

The five assessment objectives AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4 and AO5

Assume the set product lists never change from year to year

Confirm your centre's chosen products and the current Eduqas list

Ignore the prescribed list and simply study any product you prefer

Only ever study set products that come from a single country

1 hour split into a single section covering media language only, worth 90 marks overall

3 hours split into three equally weighted sections of thirty marks each, with the whole written paper booklet marked out of ninety

2 hours 15 minutes, Section A (Media Language and Representation) and Section B (Media Industries and Audiences)

2 hours 30 minutes consisting of one long extended essay on a single set media product

One single long extended essay covering all three studied media forms together

Two sections worth 45 marks each, covering television and magazines only

A short multiple-choice paper testing recall of theorists and set products

2 hours 30 minutes, three equal sections (Television, Magazines, Online Media)

AO1 35%, AO2 35%, AO3 30%

AO1 50% and AO2 50%, with no separate AO3 weighting at all

AO1 30%, AO2 30% and AO3 40%, with the NEA carrying the most weight

All three assessment objectives weighted equally at 33% each

Writing as much as you possibly can to fill every line of the answer booklet

Naming a theory, applying it to specific features, and reaching a supported judgement

Describing what happens in the product in as much detail as you can manage

Listing every single set product you have studied across both of the written examination papers