Media A Level

A Star response to the following questions: What are gatekeepers in the newspaper industry? (1 mark) Briefly explain what is meant by anchorage. (2 marks) Explain How Regulation Impacts the Newspaper Industry. Refer To the Daily Mirror in Your Answer (10) Discuss the impact of ownership on newspapers. Refer to the Times in your response (12) Explain how digital technology has impacted the newspaper industry. You should refer to the Mirror online in your response. (8)

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Slides include: 1. Stuart Hall 2. Targeting Audiences 3. Target Audience 4. Female audience 5. Female protagonist 6. Audience facts 7. Interactive experience 8. Uses and gratification 9. Handheld device 10. Types of games 11. Shirky 12. Stuart Hall - Genre theory 13. Narrative/genre 14. General audience theories 15. Jenkins 16. Bandura

Slides include: 1. Convergence 2. Success of Assassin's Creed 3. Consumption 4. Glossary 5. PEGI 6. PEGI System 7. Livingstone and Lunt 8. PS Vita 9. Ubisoft 10. Curran and Seaton 11. Hesmondhalgh

Slides include: 1. Product context 2. Historical context 3. Political/economic context 4. Social/cultural context 5. Technological context 6. Video games background

1 page key terms for gaming

Using demographics and/or psychographics, identify two possible audiences for Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation. (2) Explain how audiences interact with video games. Refer to Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation to support your points. (8)

Explain how changing audience demographics have influenced the gameplay of video games. Refer to Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation to support your points. (8)

Briefly explain two ways in which gaming publishers market their games. (4) - Exemplar A* 4 Mark Answer