A-level revision sessions 2024

This post collates the revision lessons from the final six weeks of the A-level media studies course in 2024. While these revision lessons are specially tailored to students sitting the exam in May/June 2024, you can find other extremely useful revision sessions located here, and helpfully cross-posted on the industries sub-pages

Component One

Advertising

Representation - Super.Human representational analysis

Representation - analysing Super.Human (again)

Representation - Kiss of the Vampire representational analysis

Media language - Beanz Meanz Heinz - Too Good to Leave Behind unseen analysis

Media language - Persil 3in1 Bio Capsules unseen advert analysis

Newspapers

Media language, representation, industry and audience - Applying theory in the most effective way possible to the newspaper industry

Representation and audience - The newspaper industry revision

Radio

Industry and audience - revising Have You Heard George's Podcast

Music videos

Representation - ideology and representation in Formation and an unseen print advert

Representation - Gender and representation in Riptide and an unseen film promotional image

Video games

Industry and audience - video game industry revision

The film industry

Industry - Revising the film industry

Component two

Magazines

Media language - Woman, Adbusters, and textual analysis

Representation - Adbusters, Woman and the re-presentation of reality

Audience and industry - digitally convergent media, economic factors and the magazine industry

TV

Postmodernism - how to actually refer to the hardest theory in media studies

Representation, media language and representation - TV industry ultrapost

Online media

We do not have time to revise online media. However, we have only just finished this topic! Please check out the range of resources available for this industry under the industries tab above.