Approaches to teaching the AQA content
Always keep regular checks on the AQA site for any changes to content or assessment subsequent to the publication of these Units.
At GCSE, the requirement for the AQA examination differentiates itself from the other boards in what are termed Close Study Products – a series of media products that students are required to study in detail.
Like the Edusites Core Units that deal with teaching the Media Framework, the work here involves exploring:
- The role and manipulation of media language
- The representations in these products
- Issues of audience
- Institutional issues such as genre, branding, regulation
- How the media creates or represents attitudes, behaviours and beliefs
The work and ideas in this unit, like those of the subsequent Close Study Product Units, are designed to build on the learning acquired in each term’s Edusites Core Unit. Each of the Close Study Product Units tackles one or two of the prescribed products that seem to best fit into the work of that term. This AQA Close Product Unit focuses on Paper 2 Section B: Online/Social/Participatory. In the Core Media Framework units already studied we focused on developing the toolkit for tackling products and meaning. Later in the course we will be revisiting these products in order to add levels of depth and breadth to our understanding as our knowledge and learning of the Media Framework evolves.
The assumption here is that the centre is able to meet the requirements of each of the examination boards for student access…
