OCR GCSE Media Studies Component 01 television and promoting media overview quiz quiz

Music videos from two different decades, studied as a pair of set products

The news, comparing a historic and a contemporary newspaper front page

A television crime drama across a historic and a contemporary set product

A magazine, studied in depth across its layout, codes and target audience

To save time, since studying one drama from each era is quicker than studying two from the same era

Because only old crime dramas still exist, so a contemporary one has to be paired with them

To compare two completely unrelated genres and show how different they are from one another

To show how the genre develops over time, reflecting changing attitudes, technology and conventions

A type of editing, such as a cut, a fade or a dissolve placed between two quite different shots in a scene

Everything arranged in front of the camera: setting, costume, props, lighting, colour and body language

The film's distributor, the company that releases the finished product to cinemas

A regulator that sets the rules a broadcaster must follow before transmission

Sound that comes from within the world of the scene, such as a character speaking

A camera angle, such as a high-angle or a low-angle shot used to frame a character on screen

Sound added to a scene that does not come from within its world, such as a soundtrack

A type of poster used to promote a film, programme or video game to its audience

Follow the plot closely so you can summarise exactly what happens in the extract

Ignore the visuals completely and concentrate only on the spoken dialogue instead

Memorise the dialogue word for word so you are able to quote whole lines back in the exam

Watch for the technical codes, audio codes and mise-en-scene rather than the story

There is no difference at all between the two of them, since both are funded in exactly the same way and follow precisely the very same remit

A public service broadcaster (the BBC) is licence-fee funded with a remit to serve all; a commercial broadcaster (ITV) is advertising-funded

A public service broadcaster shows only adverts and is funded entirely by the companies that pay for that advertising time

A commercial broadcaster such as ITV is funded by the licence fee, while the BBC is funded entirely by advertising revenue

The BBFC

The BBC

Ofcom

The conglomerate

A television crime drama, studied in real depth across a historic and a contemporary episode

The news, comparing how two rival channels report the same story differently

A radio programme, analysed for its audio codes, audience and broadcaster remit

Promoting media from one global conglomerate: a film poster, trailer and tie-in video game

A camera technique used to film a fast-moving action scene in a trailer

Promoting one property across many connected forms, each promoting the others

A type of audience grouped together by their shared age, gender or main interests

A rule set by the regulator that all promotional media products must follow

A small independent studio that makes only a single film with a very limited budget

A government body that very closely regulates what media companies are allowed to produce

A very large company operating worldwide that owns many businesses across different media

A type of magazine aimed at fans of a particular film franchise or video game

Describing each product in isolation, with no link between the poster, trailer and game

Ignoring the audience entirely and focusing only on the technical codes of each product

Listing the conventions of each product only, without explaining the meaning they create

Explaining how the products work together to promote one property (synergy, convergence)

It is not assessed in Section A at all, so you can safely ignore it and focus only on the media language found in each drama

The historic and contemporary pairing shows how social attitudes, technology and conventions shaped the dramas differently

It only applies to the promoting media poster in Section B, and has nothing to do with the crime dramas in Section A

It replaces media language entirely, so context is the only thing you ever need to write about in your exam answers