OCR A Level Media Studies Paper 2 2025 Mark Scheme

Download the official OCR A-Level Media Studies H409/02 Long Form Television Drama June 2025 mark scheme PDF — the examiner-approved document used to award marks in the 2025 OCR A-Level Media Studies examination. This PDF includes complete indicative content, AO breakdowns, examiner guidance, level descriptors, and detailed assessment criteria for film industry ownership, video game audiences, long-form television drama analysis, and media theory evaluation.

The mark scheme covers key OCR Media Studies topics including Disney film ownership and economic contexts, Animal Crossing: New Horizons audience theory, realism in long-form television dramas, and theoretical approaches from Lévi-Strauss and Baudrillard. It also includes detailed references to set products such as Stranger Things, Killing Eve, Lupin, Money Heist, Deutschland 83, Trapped, Atypical, and Mr Robot. Students can use this document to understand exactly how OCR examiners reward analysis, contextual understanding, theory integration, media language evaluation, and comparative judgement writing in the 2025/2026 specification.

Perfect for revision, timed practice essays, self-marking, classroom standardisation, and improving AO1/AO2 exam performance. Optimised for desktop and mobile viewing with instant PDF download access from markscheme.net.

This document is designed for OCR A-Level Media Studies students preparing for the 2026 examination series, including Year 13 candidates, retake students, independent learners, and home-schooled students studying Long Form Television Drama and Media Industries (H409/02). It is especially useful for students revising media contexts, audience theory, representation, postmodernism, structuralism, television drama realism, and video game audiences.

It is also highly valuable for Media Studies teachers, private tutors, sixth-form departments, revision providers, and parents supporting exam preparation at home. The mark scheme can be used for examiner-standard essay marking, classroom moderation, AO-focused feedback, mock exam preparation, and identifying weaknesses in contextual analysis and theory application before the OCR 2026 exams.