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A Level Media Studies

             Unit 2b - Long Form Television

Stranger Things &

The Killing

UNIT OVERVIEW

This unit focuses on media language and representation and requires learners to consider how and why media language is used by media producers to create meaning and construct various representations of events, issues, individuals and social groups.

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You will be required to study the following media forms and texts set by OCR:

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Stranger Things Season 1 Episode 1 (Netflix)

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1. Intro to Long Form TV

2. Gender & Representation

3. Genre & Narrative

4. Industry Context

5. Applying Context to Stranger Things

6. Long Form TV Conventions

7. Fandom & Audience

8. Intertextuality

9. Marketing and Advertising

10. Media Language Analysis

11. LFTV Theory

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