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An overview of how different media industries work together.

70 years ago it was unusual for a household to have a TV, now 96% of UK homes have one.

In the UK alone, there are approximately 8000 different magazine titles for general sale.

Advertising can be presented in many forms; from TV adverts, to radio jingles, to internet pop ups and billboards.

Film is one of the oldest media industries as well as a major global business making billions each year.

How we buy and consume music has changed over the years. These days, we’re most likely to purchase digital downloads and listen to digital audio files.

Every day hundreds of different newspapers are published. The content and layout of each newspaper reflects its target readership.

Radio has evolved dramatically since it began in the 1920s.

Websites, like video games, offers one key feature which distinguishes them from other media texts: interactivity.

The computer and video games industry is one of the newest and most rapidly expanding media industries.

Genre describes and categorises different types of media texts.

Different media texts have codes and conventions which can be used to analyse genre.

Participants in 1974 reality TV series, The Family, talking to the producer.

All media texts have narratives, whether they are a TV drama, a newspaper or a full length feature film.

Media texts use a range of narrative techniques to tell a story.

In media studies, representation is the way aspects of society, such as gender, age or ethnicity, are presented to audiences.

The representation of gender is a powerful code in media texts.

Representations of age can influence how audiences respond to a character or real-life person in a media text.

Ethnic, national or regional identity is reinforced or undermined by how it is represented in the media.

As well as representing groups of people, the media also construct representations of issues that are important in society.

The relationship between audiences and media texts is constantly evolving.

Some media texts aim to attract a broad audience while others are for niche audiences with a specific interest.

Research is one of the most important phases of any production.

After you've conducted all your research, you need to plan your production.

Advice for producing your own media text.