Media Forms and Products | AQA A-Level Media Studies (7572)
Media Forms and Products
- 125 questions
- 9 subtopics
- Media forms and products
- Media One and Media Two
The nine media forms divide between the two papers.
Advertising and marketing, music video, radio, newspapers and film sit on Media One; television, magazines, online, social and participatory media and video games sit on Media Two. Film is studied for its industry only.
Sample questions from Media Forms and Products
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Advertising and marketing
How does an advertisement establish its target audience within the text itself?
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Through casting, setting, music, language and visual style chosen so that the intended group recognises the product as meant for people like them. -
Music video
Why is editing to the beat a defining technical feature of music video?
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Because cutting on the rhythm binds image to sound so that the visual pace is dictated by the track, which distinguishes the form from other audio-visual media. -
Radio
What is a station ident and what does it do?
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A short branded audio element identifying the station between items, which reinforces recognition for listeners who join partway through. -
Newspapers
What are news values?
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The criteria by which journalists judge what makes a story worth covering, including immediacy, scale, proximity, conflict, prominence of those involved and unexpectedness. -
Film as an industry
What is vertical integration in the film industry?
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Ownership of production, distribution and exhibition within one company, which allows a studio to guarantee its own films access to audiences. -
Television
What is a public service broadcaster required to provide in the UK?
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News and current affairs, original production, programming for a range of audiences including minorities, and content meeting standards set out in its remit and the Broadcasting Code. -
Magazines
How does advertising shape a magazine's content?
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Advertisers seek an environment suited to their products, so editorial content, tone and the reader profile a magazine cultivates are shaped by the advertising it seeks to attract. -
Online, social and participatory media
What is an influencer and how does the role work commercially?
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A person who has built an audience on a platform and earns income by promoting products to it, which trades on the trust and familiarity that audience relationship provides.
The 9 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Advertising and marketing | Brands and unique selling points, aspirational representation, anchorage, the ASA codes, native advertising and digital targeting. | 13 |
| Music video | Performance, narrative and concept videos, editing to the beat, star image, intertextuality, and distribution after music television. | 13 |
| Radio | Sound-only meaning, mode of address, radio as a secondary medium, station identity, public service and community radio, and podcasting. | 13 |
| Newspapers | Tabloid and broadsheet, masthead and splash, news values, political allegiance, IPSO self-regulation, and the collapse of print revenue. | 13 |
| Film as an industry | Production, distribution and exhibition, why distribution holds the power, franchises, release windows, the BBFC and UK tax relief. | 13 |
| Television | Formats and the format trade, series against serial, public service obligations, the watershed, on-demand viewing and how success is measured. | 17 |
| Magazines | Covers and cover lines, specialised audiences, the influence of advertisers, house style, and the shift to digital. | 13 |
| Online, social and participatory media | Web 2.0, user-generated content, how platforms earn from data, algorithms, influencers and the Online Safety Act. | 17 |
| Video games | Interactivity and agency, game mechanics, representation in games, PEGI ratings, microtransactions and free-to-play models. | 13 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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