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A-level Media Studies Study Group 2023-2024

:hello: Welcome to the A-level Media Studies Study Group! :hello:


This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams :grouphugs:

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough! :yes:

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers, or to take conversations off-site to do these things. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this! :yeah:

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Reply 1
:hello: Welcome to the A-level Media Studies Study Group! :hello:



This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams :grouphugs:

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough! :yes:

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers, or to take conversations off-site to do these things. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this! :yea

Hello there,
hope you're doing absolutely wonderful,
I took media studies for the very first time in AS level AQA British board
I was wondering if you have any note, resources or websites which could be helpful for me as its my first time.
I would appreciate your help
thanks
Reply 2
:hello: Welcome to the A-level Media Studies Study Group! :hello:


This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams :grouphugs:

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough! :yes:

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers, or to take conversations off-site to do these things. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this! :yeah:

Hello there,
Hope you’re doing great,
Just wanted to ask as this is my fist time taking media studies for AS level AQA do you have any resources,recommendations ,past papers or websites which could be useful for me?
Need urgent help ?
hey!!! quick question, is this the group i'd go to for film studies? i don't do media but i couldn't find a similar study group post :frown:
:hello: Welcome to the A-level Media Studies Study Group! :hello:



This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams :grouphugs:

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough! :yes:

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers, or to take conversations off-site to do these things. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this! :yeah:
Reply 4
Original post by shinxscientist
hey!!! quick question, is this the group i'd go to for film studies? i don't do media but i couldn't find a similar study group post :frown:

Does anybody has AQA,AS level media studies resources and past papers
Original post by shinxscientist
hey!!! quick question, is this the group i'd go to for film studies? i don't do media but i couldn't find a similar study group post :frown:


Hiya, I've just made an A-level Film Studies Study Group and you can find it here :smile:
Reply 6
:hello: Welcome to the A-level Media Studies Study Group! :hello:


This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams :grouphugs:

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough! :yes:

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers, or to take conversations off-site to do these things. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this! :yeah:

Hi,so can anyone pls tell me what media studies is rlly like? im starting Alevels soon and im not sure if i should opt for it. Is it like socio,full of theories?
Reply 7
Original post by areebaumair
Hi,so can anyone pls tell me what media studies is rlly like? im starting Alevels soon and im not sure if i should opt for it. Is it like socio,full of theories?
not a lot of theories only 8 we need to remember the theory side is easy
Original post by xtaylorx
not a lot of theories only 8 we need to remember the theory side is easy

there's a lot of theories for eduqas!!
Reply 9
Hello,

I'm doing the CIE IAL media course.

The exam is in two weeks and we've only just started learning about the second half of the paper - the side about industry. I am so lost and I con't fully understand what I need to know.

If anyone knows of any websites, resources or just anything helpful, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks.
Reply 10
Original post by davidcrystal
there's a lot of theories for eduqas!!

im edquas we only need to know 8 lol
Reply 11
Original post by xtaylorx
im edquas we only need to know 8 lol

I wish we only did 8 ☹️ There are some theories that the exam board say we have to know, but we also learn many that will just help us.
I am STRESSED about the media exam 😭 Does anyone have any helpful revision tips? Like how to memorise certain topics?
Original post by davidcrystal
there's a lot of theories for eduqas!!

Uh but someone just said only 8
Original post by HayVickay
I wish we only did 8 ☹️ There are some theories that the exam board say we have to know, but we also learn many that will just help us.
I am STRESSED about the media exam 😭 Does anyone have any helpful revision tips? Like how to memorise certain topics?

What exam board do u have?
Original post by areebaumair
Uh but someone just said only 8

eduqas have around 19 theories we have to know - but then there are also some others we can choose to learn which may be useful - i'm not entirely sure why this person said there's only eight but it's possible that some teachers choose which they think are the most important and only teach those.
Reply 15
Original post by PB1234567890
What exam board do u have?

Eduqas
Oh ok I do aqa
The main theories we do are butler, van zoonen, gilroy, bell hook, mulvey, Alvarado, katner, hall, gauntlett, blumler and Katz, Curran and seaton, hesmondhalgh, livingstone and Lunt, gerbner, laswell, shirky, Jenkins. There are probably more but those ones I can think off at the top of my head rn, not sure whether u have heard of any of these/whether any of these are assessed in eduquas tho
Reply 17
laswell and katner Alvarado and Blumer and katz are not set theorists you wont get marks for them
Original post by xtaylorx
laswell and katner Alvarado and Blumer and katz are not set theorists you wont get marks for them
For aqa? I think these are theories covered in GCSE maybe (I never did it for gcse so I don’t know) but other theories can be applied well
Original post by xtaylorx
laswell and katner Alvarado and Blumer and katz are not set theorists you wont get marks for them

blumer and katz's uses and gratifications theory is something you should know for eduquas !! if the question wording asks how audience use a media products its essentially hinting at you to apply their theory.

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