Media Form	Current Set Product	NEW set product
Film	The Jungle Book (2016)	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), BBFC12
Advertising and Marketing	The Jungle Book (2016) film posters and teaser trailer	Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) film posters: Shang-Chi poster Ying Nan poster Katy poster and official trailer
Video games	Minecraft	Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020), PEGI 3
Television	Mr Robot	No Change
	House of Cards	Killing Eve (2018), 'Nice Face', 42m, BBFC 15
	Homeland	Atypical (2017), 'Antarctica', 38m, BBFC 12
	Stranger Things	No Change
Newspapers, Radio, Magazines, Music Video, Online, social and participatory media	No Changes

Media Form	Current set Product		NEW set product
Film	The Jungle Book (1967) AND The Jungle Book (2016)		Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), BBFC U and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), BBFC 12
Advertising and Marketing	Old Spice		River Island ‘Labels are for clothes’ campaign (2018
	Lucozade		Dove ‘Too Many Cooks’ Beautifully Real Moms campaign (2018)
	Shelter		No Change
Video Games	Minecraft		Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020), PEGI 3
Music Video	List A	Corrine Bailey Rae – Stop where you are	No Change
		Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy	Lil Nas X – SUN GOES DOWN (2021)
		Emeli Sandé – Heaven	No Change
	List B	Fatboy Slim – Ya Mama	Sufjan Stevens – Sugar (2020)
		Radiohead – Burn the Witch	No Change
		David Guetta – Titanium	No Change
Television	List A	Mr Robot	No Change
		House of Cards	Killing Eve (2018), 'Nice Face', 42m, BBFC 15
		Homeland	Atypical (2017), 'Antarctica', 38m, BBFC 12
		Stranger Things	No Change
	List B	The Killing	Lupin (2021), 'Chapter 1', 48m, BBFC 15
		Borgen	Money Heist/La Casa de Papel (2017), Episode 1 47m, BBFC 15
		Trapped	No Change
		Deutschland 83	No Change
Newspapers, Radio, Magazines, Online, social and participatory media	No Change

Media form	Current set product	New set product
TV show	Cuffs, Season 1, Episode 1	Vigil, Season 1, Episode 1
TV show	Avengers, Season 4, Episode 1	Avengers, Season 4, The Gravediggers
Music video	Pair 1: Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag and Avril Lavigne – Sk8ter Boi	no change
Music video	Pair 2: Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk and Beyoncé – If I Were a Boy	Beyonce – Brown Skin Girl and The Lathums – I’ll Get By
Music video	Pair 3: The Vamps – Somebody To You ft. Demi Lovato and Little Mix – Black Magic	Arlo Parks – Hope and Harry Styles – Adore You
Music video	Pair 4: Tinie Tempah, Jess Glynne – Not Letting Go and Paloma Faith – Picking Up the Pieces	no change

Resources and blogs to support you

To ensure you're fully supported in teaching these new set products we are providing up-to-date factsheets and other support material before first teaching begins. We’ll also update our specification documents to include the changes and how to access the set media products.

A Level Media Studies factsheets

Music video factsheets

Media studies blogs

Read as our Media Studies Subject Advisor John Hibbert discusses the new set products for A Level Media Studies, developed using teacher feedback.

Guest blogs

Dave Soltysik, A Level examiner and Head of Media Studies at a large comprehensive secondary school and sixth form, has written a number of blogs suggesting some starting points for teaching the new set products:

More blogs will be published on our website soon. We'll let you know once we've published them – remember to sign up for email updates from us.

Professional development to support you

12 June 2023 3:30pm - 4:30pm: Ask the Subject Advisor: GCSE Media Studies J200 new set products (Online Q&A)

14 June 2023 3:30pm - 4:30pm: Ask the Subject Advisor: A Level Media Studies H409 new set products (Online Q&A)

Free Teacher Networks

We’re running free, online Teacher Networks for GCSE and A Level Media Studies, where we'll be focussing on the new set products. Book your place for GCSE (6 July 4-5pm) and A Level (21 June 4-5pm).

Meet your Media Subject Advisor

We offer a personal and specific point of contact for teachers, for any qualification queries they have or to speak about the support they'd like to receive in the future. Our teams are passionate about their subjects and are committed to supporting teachers throughout their journey. As a team, they bring together impressive teaching experience and assessment expertise to directly deliver the support centres need to get the very best from their students.

John Hibbert – part of the team since 2018

"I've worked at OCR since April 2018 as Subject Advisor for Media and Film Studies. Prior to joining OCR, I taught a range of Media and Film studies qualifications in secondary schools, including 8 years as a head of department.

"Predictably, in my spare time, I'm a keen filmgoer. I also enjoy reading and listening to miserable indie music!"

GCSE, AS and A Level Media Set Products

Following feedback from teachers, we're delighted to announce that we're updating some of the set products for GCSE Media Studies (J200) and AS and A Level Media Studies (H009 and H409), for first teach in September 2023 and first assessment in 2025 (2024 for AS Level).

The set products being introduced are more contemporary, engaging and diverse for your students.

On this page:

AS Level set products – A Level set products – GCSE set products – Resources and blogs – Professional development – Meet your Media Subject Advisor

AS Level Set products (first teach September 2023)

A Level set products (first teach September 2023)

GCSE set products (first teach September 2023)