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The music industry
Introduction to music videos and the set texts
How to apply celebrity and metanarrative to the music industry
Postmodernism and music videos
A textual analysis of Riptide
Applying binary oppositions
Riptide and the representation of women
Riptide and intertextuality
How to use theory when discussing the representation of black and minority ethnic groups
How are themes of conflict encoded in the video to Formation by Beyonce?
Applying pick and mix theory to Formation
How are representations of women encoded in media products?
Applying Gilroy to Formation
TV
Videogames
A brief and extremely biased history of the videogame industry
How are videogames a specialised industry?
Videogame development and marketing
Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and the role of trailers
Ubisoft and media diversity
The regulation of the videogame industry
How will Assassin's Creed Valhalla minimize risk and maximise profit?
Indie videogame study 2 Mushihimesama 2004
Absolutely every A-level media studies theory
1 - Semiotics - Roland Barthes
Applying binary oppositions
Postmodernism and music videos
Hyperreality, bricolage and Formation
Theory
Absolutely every A-level media studies theory
1 - Semiotics - Roland Barthes
4 - Structuralism - Claude Lévi-Strauss
Applying binary oppositions
5 - Postmodernism - Jean Baudrillard
Hyperreality, bricolage and Formation
6 - Theories of representation - Stuart Hall
How to use theory when discussing the representation of black and minority ethnic groups
7 - Theories of identity - David Gauntlett
Applying pick and mix theory to Formation
8 - Feminist theory - Liesbet van Zoonen
How are representations of women encoded in media products?
10 - Theories of gender performativity - Judith Butler
Humans key scene analysis11 - Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory - Paul Gilroy
How to use theory when discussing the representation of black and minority ethnic groups
Applying Gilroy to Formation
13 - Regulation - Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt
14 - Cultural industries - David Hesmondhalgh
Ubisoft and media diversity
17 - Reception theory - Stuart Hall
18 - Fandom - Henry Jenkins
Exam technique
Coursework
How to fill out the pre-production workbook (terrible sound, sorry...)
How to complete the aims and intentions essay
Adobe Lightroom Classic basics
Tutorials
How to record a podcast with Audacity
Adobe Lightroom Classic basics
Bonus theory
B18 - Manuel Alvarado - Racial stereotypes
How to use theory when discussing the representation of black and minority ethnic groups