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Television and promoting media (Component 01)

6 dot points across 6 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you analyse the media language of the screened television extract under exam conditions?

Component 01 Section A: analysing the media language of the screened television extract, reading the technical codes (camera, editing, lighting), audio codes (music, sound, dialogue) and mise-en-scene to explain how meaning is created, and applying this to the unseen extract in the exam.
An OCR GCSE Media Studies guide to analysing the media language of the Component 01 television extract: reading technical codes, audio codes and mise-en-scene to explain meaning, and applying the toolkit to the screened extract under exam conditions.
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How does a global conglomerate use synergy and convergence to promote a property across media forms?

Component 01 Section B: how the promoting media set products use synergy and convergence to promote one property across film, marketing and a tie-in video game, the role of the global conglomerate, and how cross-media promotion reaches and persuades audiences.
An OCR GCSE Media Studies guide to convergence and cross-media promotion in the Component 01 promoting media set products: how synergy and convergence let a global conglomerate promote one property across film, marketing and a tie-in game to reach audiences.
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How are people, social groups and places represented in the television crime drama set products?

Component 01 Section A: how the television crime drama set products construct representations of social groups, gender, age, ethnicity and place, how these reflect the contexts of their eras, and how representations have changed between the historic and contemporary products.
An OCR GCSE Media Studies guide to representation in the Component 01 television crime drama set products: how they construct representations of gender, age, ethnicity and place, how these reflect their contexts, and how representations have changed across eras.
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Who makes and regulates the television crime drama set products, and how do contexts shape them?

Component 01 Section A: the industries and audiences of the television crime drama set products, who produced and broadcast them (public service and commercial broadcasters), how broadcast television is regulated, who the dramas target, and how the social, cultural, historical and technological contexts shaped them.
An OCR GCSE Media Studies guide to the industries, audiences and contexts of the Component 01 television crime drama set products: the broadcasters, the regulation of television, the target audiences, and how the contexts of each era shaped the dramas.
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What are the promoting media set products, and how are they studied?

Component 01 Section B: the promoting media set products from one global conglomerate (the film poster, trailer and tie-in video game of a film franchise), studied for media language, representation, industries and audiences, and how they promote a property across forms.
An OCR GCSE Media Studies guide to the Component 01 Section B promoting media set products: the film poster, trailer and tie-in video game from one global conglomerate, studied across the framework, and how they promote a property across media forms.
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What are the television crime drama set products, and how are they studied across the framework?

Component 01 Section A: the television crime drama set products, a historic and a contemporary episode studied in depth across the whole framework (media language, representation, industries and audiences) and their contexts, and how the comparison shows the genre developing over time.
An OCR GCSE Media Studies guide to the Component 01 television crime drama set products: the historic and contemporary pairing studied across the whole framework, the contexts that shaped them, and how the comparison shows the crime drama genre developing over time.
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