As Media Studies: The Essential Revision Guide

✍ Scribed by Peter Wall, Joanne Barker

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

AS Media Studies: The Essential Revision Guide for AQA is the must-have, self-help resource for students preparing for AQA AS Media Studies exams. Individual sections cover the key topics, including media language, audience, representation, film and broadcast fiction, and advertising and marketing amongst many, many more. Written by experienced teachers and examiners, this excellent revision guide also provides invaluable advice and support, and includes: activities  exam questions  worked examples  advice on how to approach the exam – using the reading time, note taking, planning an answer, ordering your ideas and writing your response revision tips  suggested resources. The authors also cover important questions for students – including: why do we have exams? What is AS Level? What is AQA Media Studies? And how does the exam system work? – so that any student of media studies will find themselves armed and ready to tackle their course head on.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PART 1: INTRODUCTION......Page 12
GETTING READY......Page 13
REVISION......Page 29
RESOURCES......Page 37
HELP!!!!......Page 39
THE EXAM SYSTEM EXPLAINED......Page 42
PART 2: MED1 — READING THE MEDIA......Page 52
PART 3: MED2 — TEXTUAL TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY MEDIA......Page 82
INTRODUCTION......Page 83
FILM AND BROADCAST FICTION......Page 89
DOCUMENTARY......Page 106
ADVERTISING AND MARKETING......Page 148
BRITISH NEWSPAPERS......Page 184
PART 4: CONCLUSION......Page 198
PART 5: APPENDICES......Page 200
SAMPLE AQA MATERIALS......Page 202
DOCUMENTARY......Page 210
ADVERTISING......Page 212