AQA GCSE Media Studies Student Book

38 This sort of genre and subgenre hierarchy can also be seen in the magazine industry: CONSUMER MAGAZINES Hobby Fishing Coarse fishing Carp fishing You may suspect that at this level in the hierarchy there could only be one magazine … but you would be wrong, as the selection of carp fishing magazines on this page shows. DOVETAIL GAMES PS4 GIVEAWAY! CARP FISHING’S BIGGEST-SELLING MAGAZINE TAMING WEEDY LAKES WITH ADAM PENNING SPOD ROD BUYER’S GUIDE BUY THE BEST SETUP IN FOCUS! TRAKKER’S HUGE 2017 PRODUCT LAUNCHES! LEARN DAVE LEVY’S SECRETS TO MAKE THIS YOUR BEST SPRING TO DATE APRIL2017 £4.50 CATCH YOUR BIGGEST CARP EVER! CARP FISHING’S BIGGEST NAMES DAVE LANE MARK PITCHERS LEWIS READ JAMES ARMSTRONG NICK HELLEUR Z I G F I S H I N G W I T H M R P E C K ! A L A N B L A I R DARRELL REVEALS HIS ZIG RIG EDGES THAT WILL WORK FOR YOU NASH’S MAIN MAN CONTINUES HIS HUNT FOR CARP FROM ALTERNATIVE VENUES OFC_TC_03_Cover.indd 1 13/03/2017 13:34 EXPLAININGTHE SCIENCEBEHIND WINTERCARP EXCLUSIVE      £4.50 APRIL2017 SPRING SUCCESS WASINGADVENTURES OXLEASESTUNNERS ANDCATCHINGTHE PARROTTWICE! JIM SHELLEY’S DUO OF BIGPIT FORTIES C ATCH A WHACKER THIS MONTH THESHARPEND THEONLYTWOBOTTOM BAITRIGSYOU’LLEVERNEED NIGELSHARP THEROTARYPIT ATCHINGTHEPASSENGER ATOVER44LB KRISSPENCER ZIGDISCUSSION ‘THE’TACTICFORBIGCARP THISSPRING? JERRYHAMMOND,NICKHELLEUR, JIMWILSON POLARISED SUNGLASSES INDETAIL TESTED GO LONG GETYOUR RIGWHERE NOONE ELSECAN p001_ACF_04_COVER1.indd 1 21/02/2017 12:58 Build up a genre and a subgenre hierarchy in the following areas: • online and social media • television. Activity 1.12 Recognising genres Media products that fall within a particular genre must have recognisable features in common with the other products in the same genre. One of the most important functions of media language is to communicate the membership of genres through shared codes and conventions. Let’s look at some television examples. Both of the still images on the left are clearly from television news programmes. The following signs help us to identify the genre: • formally dressed presenters • direct gaze at camera • studio setting • backdrop (city skyline, world globe). Hierarchy A system with different levels based on rank, size or importance. Key term AQA GCSE Media Studies