OCR GCSE Media Studies Component 02 music and news overview quiz quiz

A single television crime drama series, studied alongside its tie-in video game and merchandise

Promoting media, covering film posters, trailers and the marketing campaigns that sell products

Music: a pair of music videos, a radio product and a music magazine

The news only, looking just at one printed newspaper and nothing else across the whole component

A literal photograph of the artist's birth star sign, printed somewhere on the music magazine's cover

A type of camera used to film the artist in low light during the shooting of the music video itself

A government regulator that approves which artists are allowed to release music videos to the public

A constructed identity for the artist, built through performance, close-ups and iconography

To save time, since marking one pair of videos is quicker for examiners than marking many separate ones

So the comparison reveals different constructions of gender or identity

Because only two music videos exist in the entire genre, so the examiners have no other choice of products

To avoid representation altogether, so that no awkward questions about gender or identity can ever come up

Commercial broadcasting, funded purely by advertising sold against its most popular peak-time shows

A magazine, printed monthly and sold on a cover price to a niche, knowledgeable readership of music fans

Public service broadcasting (the BBC, licence-fee funded with a remit)

A conglomerate, meaning one large parent company that owns many radio stations and other media businesses

By the licence fee, in the same way that the BBC funds its radio and television services

By the government only, through a yearly grant paid directly to every magazine publisher

By the regulator, which collects a fee from readers and passes it back to the magazine

By a mix of sales (cover price) and advertising

Everyone in the country equally, since the magazine deliberately avoids targeting any particular group of readers

A specialist, knowledgeable, often older music fan who values heritage and authenticity

Only very young children, who are drawn in by the bright colours and cartoon characters on every cover

Only advertisers, because the magazine is written purely to please the brands that buy advertising space

News is a perfectly neutral mirror of events, reporting exactly what happened without any selection or viewpoint

News has no audience at all, because nobody reads, watches or shares it once a story has been published

News is constructed through selection and mediation, offering one version of events with a viewpoint

News is never regulated in any way, so newspapers and broadcasters can print whatever they like with no limits

Choosing the printer and the paper stock that the finished newspaper will eventually be printed on

A type of headline written in very large bold type to grab the reader's attention on the front page

A camera angle used by news photographers to make a subject look more powerful or more vulnerable

Editors choosing which stories lead, which images run and which voices are quoted

Media the audience only receives passively, with no way to comment on, share or add to the content at all

Media that let audiences take part: commenting, sharing, contributing and creating

A type of newspaper printed in a smaller format and aimed at a busy commuter readership on the move

A government regulator that decides which stories audiences are allowed to comment on and share online

They make it strictly one-way, so the producer simply broadcasts and the audience can only sit back quietly and receive it

They remove the audience completely, since online news brands publish stories that nobody is able to read

They make it two-way: audiences comment, share and contribute, blurring the line between producer and audience

They have no effect at all on the relationship, which stays exactly as it always was in the days of print

Describing each cover separately one after the other, without ever drawing any links or comparisons between them

Ignoring context completely and judging both covers purely on which one looks the most attractive today

Listing the conventions of each cover only, without analysing why they were used or what they mean to readers

Comparing the same feature across both and tying differences to the contexts of each era

To deliberately confuse the audience by spreading the same story across as many different platforms as possible

Convergence lets it reach audiences wherever they are, faster and more interactively than print alone

Because the regulator legally requires every news brand to publish on print, a website and social media

To avoid mediation, since publishing in many places somehow stops editors from shaping or selecting the news