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OCR Media Studies

AS Media Studies
2730 Foundation production

Ch 1: Interpreting Media Texts
Ch 11: Production Organization
Ch 12: Production Techniques
Ch 3: Genre and other Classifications
Ch 4: Case Study: TV as Institution
Ch 8: Case study: Selling Audiences
Ch 9: Advertising and Branding
Ch 6: Ideologies and Power
Ch 8: Case study: Selling Audiences
Ch 9: Advertising and Branding
Ch 7: Case study: The Music Industry, Technology and Synergy

Thriller
Children's Television
Magazine Advertising
Teenage magazines
Packaging Computer games
Radio Advertising
Websites and Music Industry promotion
2731 Textual Analysis

Ch 1: Interpreting Media Texts
Ch 6: Ideologies and Power
Ch 7: Case study: The Music industry, technology and synergy
Ch 9: Case Study: Celebrity, Stardom and Marketing
Ch 5: Questions of Representation
Ch 2: Narratives: Computer Culture
Ch 6: Ideologies and Power

Action Adventure Films
Consumerism and Lifestyle Magazines
Music, Culture and Radio Celebrity and Tabloid newspapers
Gender and TV Sitcom
Conflict/competition and Video/Computer Games

2732 Case Study: Audiences and Institutions Ch 7: Industries
Ch 15: Whose Globalization?
Ch 16: 'Free Choices' in a 'Free Market'
Ch 7: Case study: The Music Industry, Technology and Synergy

Production Practices
Media Institutions
Media Audiences
Media Technologies

Ch 11: Production Organization
Ch 12: Production techniques
Ch 7: Case study: The Major Players in the Media Industries
Ch 8: Audiences
Ch 10: Case study: Researching Mobile Phone Technologies

 

A2 Media Studies
2733 Advanced Production
Centres devise briefs for this unit: the specifications include a number of 'suggested briefs' many of which can be related to specific sections of the book

 

2734 Critical Research Study

 

Ch 10: Research
Ch 8: Case study: Selling Audiences
Ch 9: Advertising and Branding
Ch 8: Audiences
Ch 7 Industries
Ch 2: CSI: Miami and Crime Narratives
Ch 6: Ideologies and Power
Ch 7: Industries
Ch 8: Case study: Selling Audiences
Ch 4: TV as Institution
Ch 2: Narratives
Ch 5: Questions of Representation
Ch 13: Distribution
Ch 16: 'Free Choices' in a 'Free Market'
Ch 7: Case study: The major Players in the Media Industries

Advertising
Children and the Media
Community Radio
Crime and the Media
Politics and the Media
Sport and the Media
TV Drama
Women and Film
World Cinema

2735 Media Issues and Debates  Ch 7: Case study: The Music industry, Technology and Synergy
Ch 5: Case study: Images of Migration
Ch 6: Case study: News
Ch 4: Case study: TV as Institution
Ch 13: Distribution
Ch 13: Case Study: Contemporary British Cinema
Ch 3: Genre
Ch 3 Case study: J-Horror and the 'Ring cycle'
Ch 6: Ideologies and Power
Ch 16: 'Free choices' in a 'Free Market'
Ch 11: Production organisation
Ch 6: Case study: News
Ch 4: Institutions
Ch 7: Case study: The major Players in the Media Industries
Ch 6: Ideologies and power
Ch 6: Case study: news

Music Programmes on TV
Broadcast News and Current Affairs
Contemporary British Broadcasting
Contemporary British Film
The Concept of Genre in film
Censorship in Film
The Magazine Industry
Local Newspapers
Freedom, Regulation and Control in the British Press

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