key media concepts:

The four media concepts are:

• Media language-The nuts and blots of media products
• Repersentaion-How people, especailly certain groups such as men, women, young people, ethnic groups etc, are portrayed by the media.
• Audience-The ways of describing and appealing to consumers of media
• Institution-The producers and regulators of the media

The exam is split into two parts; part A and part B. both parts are essay questions which will be marked out of 50.

Part A-
Anaylse a five minute clip from a british tv drama.

• Media language-you'll be tested on your alility to ananlyse the followoing:

Cinematograpy
Editing
Sound (diagetic/non diagetic)
Mise en scene (everything in the scene, including setting, location,lighting, costume, makeup, probs, nlocking, body language).

• Representation-you'll be asked be asked to ananylse how the media language bluids a represenation of one of the following:

Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Sexuality
Religional idenity
Ablity/disabilty
Class/class status

Part B-
Audiences and insitutions

• You will be testede on your knowledge of the relationship between the people who produce, distribute and exhibit the films (institions and people who go to see films.