Eduqas GCSE Media Studies media industries overview quiz quiz

A single small independent producer making one product on its own

A particular type of audience grouped together by age, taste or income

A large company that owns many media (and sometimes non-media) businesses

A government regulator that sets the rules for what the media may produce

It exists only to make as much commercial profit as it possibly can for its private shareholders

It is banned from broadcasting and may only publish in print or online formats

It has no audience at all and is produced purely as a public record of events

It has a remit to inform, educate and entertain and is funded other than purely commercially

By charging the audience a monthly subscription fee to access the content

By public funding only, through grants paid for out of general taxation

By selling the audience's attention to advertisers

By the licence fee that every household pays to fund public broadcasting

The making of the product, from the first idea through to the finished version

The regulator's decision about whether a product is allowed to be released at all

The audience's response to a product once they have watched or read it

The process of getting a product to its audience through platforms and channels

Ofcom

PEGI

The BBFC

The press complaints system

A particular type of camera shot used to build tension in a scene

A funding model used by commercial broadcasters to pay for their programmes

A genre of film aimed mainly at adult audiences in the late evening

An Ofcom rule restricting adult content on broadcast before a set time

To deliberately make all media products a great deal more expensive for the audience to buy and use

To stop all media products from ever being made and released to the public at all

To protect audiences, maintain standards and reduce harm, balanced against freedom of expression

Only to raise money for the government through fines, fees and broadcasting charges

The closing down and merging together of all the major media companies into one single state-owned organisation

A particular type of media regulation that controls which devices the audience may legally own

A genre of television built around bringing many different presenters together in one studio

The coming together of media forms, technologies and devices, so one device or platform delivers many forms

A particular type of audience research used to test a product before its release

A regulator's official code of conduct that all media producers are strictly required to follow

Promoting and linking a product across forms and platforms so the parts reinforce one another

A camera technique used to make a scene feel more dynamic and energetic on screen

Audiences can no longer access any media at all without first going through a large media conglomerate

Audiences are now required to pay the licence fee before they can use any digital platform

Audiences have themselves become the official regulators who decide what may be published

Audiences can now produce, share and circulate content themselves, blurring the producer-audience line

The BBFC

Ofcom

PEGI

The press complaints system

Assume they never change and revise the same products from a few years ago

Ignore the set products entirely and just learn the general industry framework on its own instead

Use any media product you like, as long as it comes from the right industry

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