Contexts of the media overview quiz - AQA GCSE Media Studies quiz

Camera, editing, sound and lighting

Social, cultural, historical and political (including economic)

Production, distribution, exhibition and regulation

Tabloid, broadsheet, magazine and online

The technology available when it was made

The identities, groups, issues and inequalities of a society

The company that owns and funds it

The genre and narrative of the product

A society's values, beliefs, traditions and ways of life

The age certificate given by the BBFC

The marketing budget of a product

The camera shots used in a scene

The opinions of its target audience

The period it was made in, including the technology and events of the time

The number of platforms it appears on

Its profit and funding model only

Costume, lighting and colour

Power, ideology, ownership, funding and regulation

Denotation and connotation

Genre conventions and narrative

Because all audiences read products in the same way

Because the same feature can mean different things to audiences in different times or places

Because context never affects meaning

Because only the producer decides the meaning

Describe the historical period in general

Link a precise feature of a set product to its context and explain the meaning

Avoid mentioning context to save time

Use context only for video games

Only media language

All four frameworks, as a layer added to each

Only media industries

None of the frameworks

It avoids the need to analyse features

It forces you to show how context determines meaning

It is quicker than analysing one product

It removes the need for terminology

It has no effect on what is made

Ownership and funding shape the scale, choices and reach of a product

It only affects the audience, not the producer

It only matters for newspapers

The use of a close-up to show emotion

An older advert reflecting the gender attitudes of its period

The denotation of a colour

The genre conventions of a crime drama

Write a history of the time period

Name the context, link it to a precise feature, and explain the effect on meaning

List all four contexts without examples

Focus only on the product's plot