Eduqas GCSE Media Studies audiences overview quiz quiz

The attitudes, values and lifestyles that an audience holds about the wider world around them

A type of camera shot used to make an audience feel close to a character

The set of rules and codes that the media regulator enforces on producers

The measurable characteristics of an audience, such as age, gender, class and region

The measurable age, gender and social class of an audience group

A funding model used by a media company to pay for its products

A type of editing that cuts quickly between several different shots

The attitudes, values, lifestyles and interests of an audience

The price that a member of the audience has to pay in order to buy the media product itself

The particular genre or category that a media product clearly belongs to

The way a product speaks to its audience (formal or informal, aspirational or familiar)

The official regulator that sets the rules for the media industry

Rejecting the preferred meaning and reading against the product

Ignoring the media product completely and not engaging with it

A type of low-angle camera shot that makes a subject look powerful

Accepting the preferred meaning the producer intended

Fully accepting the preferred meaning exactly as the producer intended it to be read

A funding model that a media company relies on to pay for its products

Rejecting the preferred meaning and reading against it, because of differing values

A familiar genre convention that audiences expect to see in a product

Stuart Hall

Liesbet van Zoonen

Vladimir Propp

Blumler and Katz

Regulation (the official rules the media industry must follow by law)

Distribution (the way a finished media product is released out to the general public)

Personal identity (relating to characters and exploring one's own identity)

Convergence (the way different media technologies merge into one device)

A theory that audiences are always active and interpret the media in their own many different ways

A funding model that media companies rely on to pay for making their products

A type of regulation that controls what the media are allowed to broadcast

An early passive-audience model that the media inject messages into a passive audience

Audiences are completely passive and simply absorb whatever messages the media choose to give them

Audiences have no real role at all in shaping the meaning of a media product

Audiences are active: they interpret, choose and use media according to their own needs and values

Audiences only ever watch the news and ignore all other kinds of media

A professional media producer only, who never consumes any media themselves

A type of regulator that sets the rules for the media industry to follow

A funding model that media companies use to pay for their products

An audience member who both consumes and produces media

Content made only by professional studios with large budgets and big production crews

Content that has been banned by the regulator for breaking the rules

Media content created and shared by audiences rather than professional producers

A type of camera shot used to draw an audience into the action

It has no real value at all to producers and is generally just a waste of their time

It is required by the regulator, who forces producers to allow it by law

It reduces the size of the audience and drives loyal viewers away

It brings loyalty, reach and free promotion as audiences share and create content