Paper 1

What is Paper 1: Media Messages about?

This paper is studying five media forms, two in-depth and the other three (in Section B) for a specified framework; language and representation.

Section A: News and Online Media

This section consists of two linked in-depth studies that focus on contemporary news in the UK, requiring learners to explore how and why newspapers and their online counterparts are evolving as media products and the relationship between both online and offline news.

Section B: Media Language and Representation

Learners will explore media language and representation, through media products set by OCR in the following media forms:

• magazines

• advertising and marketing and

• music videos