OCR A-Level Media Studies set products overview quiz quiz

The Sun and The Times, the two News UK tabloid and broadsheet titles

The Daily Mirror and The Daily Telegraph, one left and one right leaning

The Metro and the Daily Express, a free sheet paired with a mid-market title

The Guardian and the Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is right-leaning, The Guardian left-leaning

Both the Daily Mail and The Guardian are left-leaning papers with very similar politics

Both the Daily Mail and The Guardian are right-leaning papers with very similar politics

Neither the Daily Mail nor The Guardian has any political alignment at all in its coverage

Score hair cream

This Girl Can

Galaxy

Kiss of the Vampire

Three music videos chosen freely from a single combined list of set products

Any music video the student likes, with no fixed list set by the exam board at all

One text from List A and one from List B, deliberately contrasting

Only music videos by a single named artist, studied across that artist's whole career

GQ

Vogue

The Big Issue

Adbusters

Media industries and audiences

Media language only, focusing on the codes and conventions of the broadcast

Representation only, focusing on how social groups are presented on the show

Narrative only, focusing on how the running order structures each broadcast

It cannot be played online at all, so each player is completely isolated from others

Players create, build, mod and share content in a large community

It has no audience at all, since nobody ever watches or shares what players make in it

It can only ever be watched as a video and can never actually be played by the audience

Representation only

Audiences only

Media industry only

Media language only

Two English-language dramas, compared with each other across the same time period

Only a single non-English-language drama, studied closely on its own without comparison

A single drama of any language, studied in depth on its own rather than comparatively

One English-language and one non-English-language drama

Through the online and social extensions of the set products, especially the news brands

As a completely standalone examination paper devoted to it and nothing else on the course

It is not studied anywhere on the course, as it falls outside the nine media forms entirely

Only through the study of video games, with no link to any of the other set products at all