Assessment overview

Students must complete all components (01, 02 and 03 or 04) to be awarded the OCR GCSE in Media Studies.

Students who are retaking the qualification may carry forward their result for the non-exam assessment component.

Students who wish to retake the non-exam assessment component must undertake the brief set for the year of assessment.

Content overview

Component 01: Television and promoting media

There are two sections:

• In section A: Television, students engage with an in-depth study of one contemporary and one historic television products, responding to questions covering the whole of the theoretical framework and a range of media contexts
• In section B: Promoting media, students study media products from the same global conglomerate producer illustrating the media forms of film, advertising and marketing, and video games.

Component 02: Music and news

There are two sections:

• In section A: Music, students engage with one in-depth study covering magazines, a comparative study of music videos and a study of contemporary radio.
• In section B: News, students engage with one in-depth study of online news, including its social and participatory media. Students also study contemporary and historical newspaper front pages and how they illustrate changing social, cultural, historical and political contexts.

Component 03/04: Creating media

Students apply their knowledge and understanding of media language and representations to create media products of their own, using the theoretical framework to express and communicate meaning to an intended audience.