Exam key terms
Typing practice for GCSE Digital Media and Film
Media language, video gaming and online news, plus the set films, directors and Welsh production companies whose names have to be spelled exactly right.
- Terms
- 270
- Lessons
- 10
- Spec code
- 3670QS
Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE Digital Media and Film specification, first teaching 2026.
A sample of what pupils type
One term from each topic in the pack, so you can judge the level before signing up. These are the real strings, straight out of the lessons.
- costume, hair and make-up
- mainstream production company
- Pan-European Gaming Information
- Public Service Broadcaster
- Advertising Standards Authority
- Creative Economy Atlas Cymru
- Twitch or YouTuber influencer
- non-fiction narrative devices
- Welsh Grand National
- camera shots and angles
- representations of identity
- historical production context
- user generated content
- Data Protection Act 2018
- Ofcom Media Nations Report
- genre codes and conventions
- character descriptions
- Vincent Paronnaud
What the pack covers
Topics follow the specification's own content areas, so a teacher can set the one the class is on this week.
Welsh and global films
- 1.1 How film creates meaning for audiences
- 1.2 Comparative study of Welsh and global films
Video gaming
- 2.1 Video gaming
Exploring key concepts and issues in online news and social media
- 3.1 Online news and social media
- 3.2 Regulation and ethical issues in social media
Distribution and exhibition strategies of digital media and film industries in Wales
- 4.1 Investigating production companies based in Wales
Creating digital media and film content
- 5.1 Creating and developing ideas to communicate meaning
- 5.2 Developing creative skills and reflecting on your own work
- 5.3 Set films, film-makers and named people
- 5.4 Explaining terms in your own words
How a lesson works
Each lesson has five parts drawn from its term pool, so nobody memorises one screen of text. The pass mark is 92 per cent accuracy, higher than the touch-typing course, because a misspelled technical term is a wrong answer rather than a slow one. Lessons do not lock, so pupils revise whatever they are covering in class.
Where the terminology comes from
Each pack is curated from the published specification and the Guidance for Teaching for that qualification. We list individual subject terms only, and every definition and example sentence is written from scratch.
- WJEC GCSE Digital Media and Film Specification (Undated)
- WJEC GCSE Digital Media and Film Guidance for Teaching: Unit 1 (Undated)
- WJEC GCSE Digital Media and Film Guidance for Teaching: Unit 2 (Undated)
- WJEC GCSE Digital Media and Film Guidance for Teaching: Unit 3 (Undated)
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