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AQA GCSE Media Studies
Paper 1

AQA GCSE Media Studies · 8572

AQA GCSE Media Studies Paper 1

Media One

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Marks: 84
Weighting: 35% of the GCSE

From the AQA specification (opens in a new tab), Version 1.4, PDF page 7.

6 sections · 41 revision notes · 6 past papers

What’s on Paper 1

3 The theoretical framework

Media language · Media representations · Media industries · Media audiences · Contexts of the mediaOn both papers15 notes

Media language

Signs, communication and modes of address
Technical, print, symbolic and verbal codes

Paper 1 past papers

June 2025 Paper 1
Question paper Mark scheme

June 2024 Paper 1
Question paper Mark scheme

Other papers

Genre, intertextuality and technology

Narrative and Propp's character types

Media representations

Re-presentation and reality
Stereotypes and misrepresentation
Gender and feminist approaches
Viewpoints, significance and audience interpretation

Media industries

Ownership, production and convergence
Funding and global media industries
Regulation and digital technologies

Media audiences

Targeting and categorising audiences
Active and passive audiences, interpretation and response
Uses and Gratifications, identity and fandom

Contexts of the media

Social, cultural, historical and political contexts

The theoretical framework overview

3.1 Newspapers

NewspapersOn both papers3 notes

3.1 Newspapers

The Daily Mirror
The Times
Analysing newspapers: front pages, inside pages and political bias

Newspapers overview

3.1 Online, social and participatory media and video games

Online presence · Video gamesOn both papers8 notes

3.1 Online presence

Marcus Rashford: online media language and representation
Marcus Rashford: industries and audiences
Kim Kardashian: online media language and representation
Kim Kardashian: industries and audiences

3.1 Video games

Lara Croft Go: media language and representation
Lara Croft Go: industries and audiences
Blackpink The Game (2027 exams)

Online, social and participatory media and video games overview

3.1 Advertising and magazines

Advertising and marketing · Magazines5 notes

3.1 Advertising and marketing

Galaxy: the Audrey Hepburn advert
NHS Blood and Transplant: Represent
OMO (1955)

3.1 Magazines

Tatler (January 2021)
Heat (21–27 November 2020)

Advertising and magazines overview

3.1 Film, music video and radio

Film · Music video · Radio6 notes

3.1 Film

Black Widow (2021)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)

3.1 Music video

Arctic Monkeys, I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Blackpink, How You Like That

3.1 Radio

Radio 1's launch: Tony Blackburn's first breakfast show (1967)
Kiss Breakfast

Film, music video and radio overview

2.2 Paper 1: answering the questions

Paper 1 questions4 notes

2.2 Paper 1 questions

Paper 1 Questions 1 and 2: the unseen source
Paper 1 Section A: questions on the Close Study Products
Paper 1 Section B: industries and audiences questions
Paper 1 Question 9: the extended response

Paper 1: answering the questions overview

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