GCSE Media Studies requirements
Key Concepts Covered - Media Language
- Media Institution/Industry
- Media Audience
- Media Representation
Assessment Objectives 1 Knowledge
2 Analysis/Interpretation
3 Production
Themes Addressed - Media Codes
- Image Analysis
- Advertising
- Genre/Style
- Stereotyping/Gender/Class
- Production constraints
- New Technologies
- Audience
- Representation
Assessment 50% Coursework
Three Assisgnments
(approx 700 words each, in three
different media – one of which must be
the moving image )
One Practical Production
One Supporting Account (800 words)
50% Examination
Topic set in Advance and completed by
pupils before end of May