A2 Media Studies (AQA) - Year 13
At A2, candidates are encouraged to demonstrate, develop and formulate their understanding of the media and its influential role in today's society as well as debating major contemporary media issues:
Unit 3 2 hour examination 25% Critical Perspectives Section A: three compulsory questions on two unseen stimulus pieces. Section B: one essay from a choice of two pre-set topics
Unit 4 Critical investigation and linked production 25% Media: Research and Production A critical investigation (range of media forms) and a linked production piece.
| TEACHER 1 Unit 4 Critical Investigation & Production | TEACHER 2 Unit 3 Media |
| Half Term 2 (September - October) | |
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| External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No | External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 3 (November - December) | |
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| External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No | External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 4 (January - February) | |
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| External Assessment: Yes Unit 4 Submitted Internal Common Assessment: Yes Unit 4 Submitted Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No | External Assessment: Yes Unit 4 Submitted Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 5 (March - April) | |
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| External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Mock Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No | External Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Mock Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 6 (May - June) | |
| External Assessment: Yes Internal Common Assessment: No Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No | External Assessment: Yes Internal Common Assessment: No Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No |
Suggested Course reading list:
MEDIA STUDIES: THE ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTION – Rayner, Wall & Kruger (Routledge)
DESPERATELY SEEKING THE AUDIENCE – Ang (Routledge)
ILL-EFFECTS: THE MEDIA/VIOLENCE DEBATE – Barker & Petley (Routledge)
MYTHOLOGIES – Barthes (Vintage Classics)
ADVANCED LEVEL MEDIA – Bell & Rivers (Hodder & Stoughton)
WAYS OF SEEING – Berger (Penguin)
FILM ART: AN INTRODUCTION – Bordwell & Thompson (McGraw-Hill)
POWER WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY: THE PRESS AND BROADCASTING IN BRITAIN – Curran & Seaton (Routledge)
MEDIA STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION – Dutton (Longman)
READING TELEVISION – Fiske & Hartley (Methuen)
WOMEN AND SOAP OPERA – Geraghty (Polity Press)
UNDERSTANDING TELEVISION – Goodwin & Whannel (Routledge)
UNDERSTANDING NEWS – Hartley (Routledge)
MANUFACTURING CONSENT – Herman & Chomsky (Vintage)
THE NEWSPAPERS HANDBOOK – Keeble (Routledge)
NO LOGO – Klein (Flamingo)
HOW TO READ A FILM – Monaco (Oxford)
GENRE AND CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD – Neale (BFI)
MEDIA STUDIES: TEXTS, INSTITUTIONS AND AUDIENCES – Taylor & Willis (Blackwell)
THE MEDIA STUDENT’S BOOK (Branston, G, Stafford, R; 2006)
AS MEDIA STUDIES: THE ESSENTIAL REVISION GUIDE (Barker, J, Wall, P; 2006)
REVISION EXPRESS: MEDIA STUDIES (Bennett, J; 2005)
AS MEDIA STUDIES: THE ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTION (Rayner, P, Wall, P, Kruger,S; 2004)
MEDIA STUDIES: THE ESSENTIAL RESOURCE (Rayner, P, Wall, P, Kruger, S; 2003)
STUDYING THE MEDIA (O’Sullivan, T; Dutton, B; Rayner, P; 2001)
ADVANCED STUDIES IN MEDIA (Price, J, Nicholas, J; 1999)
THE MEDIA TEACHER’S BOOK (McDougall, J; 2006)
THE MEDIA STUDIES BOOK: GUIDE FOR TEACHERS (Lusted, D; 1991)
UNDERSTANDING THE MEDIA: A PRACTICAL GUIDE (Hart, A; 1991)
LEARNING THE MEDIA (Gutch, R, Wollen, T, Alvarado, M; 1987)
TEACHING THE MEDIA (Masterman, L; 1986).
