Final exams dates 2023-2024
| Mon 13 May pm (1 h 45 min) | Media Studies GCSE J200/01: Television and promoting media |
| Mon 20 May pm (1 h 15 min) | Media Studies GCSE J200/02: Music and news |
Changes to the specification’s set products 2023-2025
OCR has decided to replace some of the set products used as case of study for the exams, for first teach in September 2023 and first assessment in 2025.
Introduction to Media Studies
What is Media Studies?
Purpose of the Media
Introduction to Media Studies_Assessment task
Curriculum intent and purpose
The purpose of Media Studies is to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to become active audiences who can approach mass media messages in an analytical, critical and informed way. Additionally, the intent of this curriculum is to introduce students to aspects of media production, both graphic and audio visual which will help them to acquire the basic skills to progress on their studies at a further education level (either A level/Technical qualifications) or apprenticeship programs. This will allow students to become both analytical and critical consumers and producers of media texts.
OCR GCSE Media Studies (Specification code: J200)
In year 10, students are introduced to the foundations of the theoretical framework of Media Studies and its key concepts and terminology. Students research and analyse different media texts and platforms, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television, film and online media. They look at specific set texts and industries case studies, such as MOJO magazine and Bauer Media; BBC and Radio 1 Live Lounge; aspects of media language and representation in music videos; newspapers, with a study of The Observer; TV drama, with a detailed study of aspects of media representation, media language and audiences in Cuffs and The Avengers; and the industrial aspects of film marketing through the study of the Lego Movie. In the summer term, students start the research, planning and production of a media text based on the briefs published by the exam board for that academic year. The proposed briefs focus on either printed media (magazines) or audio-visual media production (music videos, television programs or radio programs).
In year 11, students complete their coursework production and prepare in depth for their two exams. Paper 1 focuses on issues of representation, media language and audiences in TV drama (section A) with the study of Cuffs and The Avengers, and film (section B) with the study of the industrial aspects behind the Lego Movie. Paper 2 focuses on the music industry (section A) and newspapers (Section B), with the study of MOJO magazine; set cases of study for music videos; BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge and The Observer as a case of study for newspapers.
GRADE BOUNDARIES
Grade boundaries June 2023
Grade boundaries June 2022
Grade boundaries June 2019
HOW TO USE THIS WEBSITE
This website is intended as an online bank of resources for the subject and by no means aims to constitute a definitive scheme of work to teach the subject or this specification. This website is currently a work in progress subject to updates, and additional resources may be added when needed. You can find all the exam board’s information about this specification at OCR’s website.
In this website, you (the student) will be able to find all the resources that you need in order to access all the requirements of this specification. Use this website as a bank of resources for your own revision purposes and as help to guide you through the theoretical framework and the three different units of your GCSE in Media Studies.
You can find a copy of OCR’s GCSE Media Studies specification in the link below:
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GCSE OCR Media Studies (specification code: J200) 