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A-Level Media Studies (AQA 7572), against the DfE/Ofqual subject content.
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A-Level Media Studies (AQA 7572), against the DfE/Ofqual subject content.
Complete topic map
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An overarching analytical model built from four interlocking areas through which all media products are studied across the course.
How media products use codes, conventions, modes and technical elements to construct and communicate layers of meaning.
How media products portray events, issues, social groups and identities, and the values and viewpoints these portrayals encode.
How ownership, funding, production, distribution and regulation shape media products within commercial and institutional contexts.
How audiences are categorised, targeted, reached and how they receive, interpret and use media in differing ways.
A set body of academic theories, including semiotics, narratology, genre, representation, regulation and fandom, applied to analyse products.
The social, cultural, political, economic and historical circumstances that influence how media products are made and understood.
Study across a required range of forms including television, film industry, radio, newspapers, magazines, advertising, online and social media, video games and music video.
A defined set of prescribed media texts examined in depth as the basis for applying the theoretical framework in the examinations.
In-depth study of set long-form television products analysed across all four framework areas and their contexts.
Comparative study of contrasting print magazines exploring media language, representation, industry and audience.
Study of online, social and participatory media products and the ways digital platforms reshape production and audience interaction.
The skill of drawing together knowledge from different areas of the specification to build sustained, evaluative arguments.
Analytical groundwork comparing how related products work across two media forms, underpinning the production brief.
Creating an original cross-media product for an intended audience by applying the theoretical framework to a set brief.
Where this subject applies
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AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
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