OCR GCSE Media Studies media industries and audiences overview quiz quiz

A small independent producer that makes one media product and sells it to a larger studio

A single audience group defined only by its age, gender and social class characteristics

A large company that owns many smaller companies across different media and industries

A government regulator that classifies films and sets standards for broadcast content

By advertising revenue sold against its most popular peak-time programmes

By a monthly subscription that viewers must pay to unlock any of its channels

By selling its programmes abroad only

By the licence fee as part of a public service remit

It has no effect at all on the content of the product or on the kind of audience the product tries to chase down

It removes all commercial pressure and lets the makers freely ignore who is watching or reading the product

It pushes the product towards mainstream appeal and shapes content around what advertisers want

It guarantees a small niche audience and frees the product from chasing mainstream popularity

They are the same process, since making a product and circulating it always happen together

Production is about regulating and classifying a product; distribution is about how it is funded

Production only applies to film, while distribution only applies to newspapers and magazines

Production is making the product; distribution is getting the finished product to audiences

Regulates broadcast television and radio output across the United Kingdom

Collects the licence fee and uses it to fund the BBC and its services

Classifies films and video games by age suitability

Owns and runs several national newspapers, including The Observer

Only to increase the advertising revenue of producers by forcing every audience to sit through far more commercials

To make every media product look identical so that audiences cannot tell one apart from another

Only to set the prices that audiences must pay to access films, newspapers and streaming services

To protect audiences (especially children), uphold standards, and balance free expression against harm

The closing of all newspapers as audiences move away from print and towards online news sources

A type of camera shot in which the lens slowly zooms in to focus tightly on a single subject

The coming together of previously separate media technologies, forms and industries, especially through digital technology

A funding model in which audiences pay a single subscription to access many different platforms and channels owned by one large company

A government regulator that classifies media products and sets standards for what they may contain

A passive audience that simply receives media messages and is influenced by them, without ever questioning or reinterpreting them

A type of newspaper aimed at a mass readership and funded mainly through advertising rather than sales

Promoting one property across many connected forms (a film, a tie-in game, merchandise), each promoting the others

They are the same thing, since both simply describe an audience by its age, gender and social class

Demographics describe how a product is regulated and classified by age; psychographics describe how the product is funded and sold

Demographics are measurable characteristics (age, gender, class); psychographics are lifestyle, values and attitudes

Demographics only apply to print media, while psychographics only apply to film and television products

An audience that simply receives media messages and is directly affected by them without questioning

An audience that does not watch, read or use any media products at all and therefore makes no meanings from them whatsoever

An audience that is chosen and grouped by the regulator before a media product is released to the public

An audience that interprets, selects, questions and uses media for its own purposes, making its own meanings

Accepting the producer's intended meaning in full, exactly as it was meant to be understood

Partly accepting the intended meaning while disagreeing with or adapting some parts of it

Rejecting the intended meaning and reading against it

Ignoring the product entirely and forming no reading of its meaning at all, whether for or against

How finished media products are circulated to audiences through cinema, streaming and shops

Who owns the BBC and how the licence fee is collected, set and spent across its many services

How to classify a film or a video game by its age suitability so that younger children are protected from harm

Whether the media can influence audience behaviour and attitudes, assuming a more passive audience