Media representation overview quiz - AQA GCSE Media Studies quiz

Because every product results from choices about selection, combination and editing

Because media products are always fictional and never show anything that is real

Because audiences are simply unable to understand reality without help from the media

Because all media products are regulated by a watchdog before they can be released

A detailed and accurate portrait of a group that captures all of its variety

A simplified, widely held and often exaggerated idea about a group of people

A camera angle used in film to make a character look powerful or weak

A type of media regulator that decides what producers are allowed to show

Stereotypes are always negative and can never be used in a positive way

Stereotypes never appear in modern media now that audiences have rejected them

Stereotypes can be used, reinforced or challenged by producers

Stereotypes only ever apply to gender and never to any other social group

Tzvetan Todorov

Vladimir Propp

George Gerbner

bell hooks

When the audience accepts the producer's intended meaning

When the audience rejects the intended meaning

When the audience partly accepts and partly questions the meaning

When the audience ignores the product

Accepting the producer's intended meaning fully, exactly as it was encoded

Rejecting the preferred meaning, often because of disagreement with its values

Adjusting the producer's meaning slightly so that it fits your own personal views

Refusing to engage with any media product at all and ignoring it completely

Bias presents every side fairly, while balance unfairly favours just one side

They mean exactly the same thing and can be used to describe the same coverage

Bias unfairly favours one side; balance presents different sides fairly

Bias only ever applies to film, while balance only ever applies to print media

By reporting every single fact about the event without leaving anything out

By using only completely neutral language at all times throughout the report

By avoiding the use of any images at all and printing only the written words

Through selection and emphasis, such as the choice of headline and image

Their identity, experience and culture

Only the producer's intentions, whatever the audience member is like

Only the price the audience member paid to buy or access the product

Only the length of the product and how long it takes to watch or read

It contains no values, attitudes or beliefs of any kind and is completely neutral

It can reflect, reinforce or challenge particular values, attitudes and beliefs

It is always factually accurate and gives a true picture of the real world

It cannot be interpreted differently by different members of the audience