Media study guides

A complete overview of audiences in OCR A-Level Media Studies. Explains targeting and categorising audiences, media effects (Bandura, Gerbner), reception theory (Hall) and participatory culture (Jenkins, Shirky), and the Explain and essay question types the area rewards.

A complete overview of media contexts in OCR A-Level Media Studies. Explains social and cultural, economic and political, and historical contexts, how each shapes products, and the Explain and essay question types the area rewards across both papers.

A complete overview of media industries in OCR A-Level Media Studies. Explains production, distribution and circulation, ownership and power (Curran and Seaton), cultural industries (Hesmondhalgh) and regulation (Livingstone and Lunt), and the Explain and essay question types the area rewards.

A complete overview of media language in OCR A-Level Media Studies. Explains semiotics (Barthes), genre (Neale) and narrative (Todorov, Propp, Levi-Strauss), the technical and print codes of close analysis, and the Analyse and essay question types the area rewards.

A complete overview of representation in OCR A-Level Media Studies. Explains representation as construction (Hall), stereotypes and social groups, gender (van Zoonen, bell hooks), ethnicity (Gilroy) and identity (Gauntlett), and the Analyse and essay question types the area rewards.

A complete overview of the OCR A-Level Media Studies set products (close study products). Covers the news, advertising, music video, magazine, radio, video game, film and television set products across the nine forms, how each is examined, and the close study product method.

A complete overview of the OCR A-Level Media Studies Making Media NEA. Explains the cross-media production task, choosing a brief, the Statement of Intent, applying the framework in production, the cross-media link, and the AO3-led assessment.

A complete overview of the named academic theories in OCR A-Level Media Studies and how to apply them. Maps the theories onto the four framework areas, explains the named-theory and extended-essay question types, and shows how to choose, apply and combine theories for the top band.