Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

Media Studies has never held greater global relevance, making its study both exciting and widely applicable to contemporary culture. The media, as a whole, affects every person in one way or another. Through our study of media, we develop a student’s understanding of how people become informed – or misinformed – by media products, and how the ideologies that govern our lives are created and sustained. We want our A Level students to understand the influence of the media and how media industries make conscious choices about media language in order to create representations and target specific audiences. We aim to arm our learners with the ability to make informed judgements about these representations and to challenge them by exploring their own view of the truth and how the media chooses to represent it. Component One: Media Messages Section A: News and Online Media Section B: Media Language and Representation (Magazines/Advertising and Marketing/Music Videos) Component Two: Evolving Media Section A: Media Industries and Audiences (Radio/Video Games/Film Industry) Section B: Long Form Television Drama Component Three: Making Media Students will create a cross-media product in response to an OCR set brief. They will have 30 hours to produce their product.