Eduqas GCSE Media Studies representation overview quiz quiz

The media simply reflect reality back to the audience exactly as it really is, with no changes at all

Representation has nothing to do with values, viewpoints or the choices made by producers

The media re-present reality through selection, construction and mediation, not simply reflect it

Representation only applies to news products and never to any other media forms

A type of active audience that interprets and uses media products in its own many different and varied ways

A camera technique used by producers to make a subject look more powerful on screen

A genre of television built around panel discussions and topical debate shows

The whole process by which the media select, shape and present material, so what we see is constructed

The price that the audience has to pay to buy the media product itself

The choice of what to include in and exclude from a representation

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

The decision made by the media regulator about what is allowed

Only by fully accepting the preferred reading exactly as the producer intended it to be read

Only by completely rejecting the preferred reading and refusing to engage with the product

By accepting (dominant), negotiating, or rejecting (oppositional) the preferred reading

They cannot respond to a representation in any way at all

A unique, complex and fully rounded individual character that breaks all of the audience's expectations of a group

A type of high-angle camera shot used to make a subject on screen look weak and small

A rule set down and enforced by the official regulator of the media industry

A simplified, widely held and often exaggerated representation of a social group, repeated across the media

To repeat the familiar stereotype exactly as the audience expects to see it

To deliberately overturn it for surprise, humour or critique

To ignore representation completely and focus only on the product's genre

To define a media language code that the audience must learn to read

Only by the price that the audience has to pay to buy the media product

Only by the media regulator, who decides exactly how gender must be shown in every product by law

Through media language: casting, costume, body language, framing, narrative role and dialogue

It is never constructed at all, since gender simply reflects real life

Audiences ignore all media representations entirely and they have no effect on identity at all

Media representations have no effect whatsoever on how an audience sees itself

Only news products affect identity, while all other media forms have no influence

Audiences use the range of media representations to help construct their own identities

They cannot, because every single news product is required to report the same event in exactly the same way

Each selects different facts, images, headlines and angles, constructing different viewpoints

Because the media regulator actually changes the real event before it is reported

Because it is the audience, not the producers, who writes and shapes the news

The audience's own personal opinion of the product, formed from their own particular values and experience

A type of camera shot used by producers to draw the audience into the action on screen

The meaning the producer wants the audience to take, constructed through selection and media language

The price that the audience has to pay to buy the media product itself

To remove all values and viewpoints from the product completely

To use only natural daylight rather than any artificial studio lighting

To set the whole of the media product outdoors in a natural setting

To make the values seem obvious or natural rather than constructed

Simply describe the character's physical appearance in as much careful detail as you possibly can

Read the media language that constructs it and explain the viewpoint and values it carries

Name the genre the product belongs to and then stop without going any further

State only the price of the product and the audience it is aimed at, nothing more