This course provides students with the opportunity to develop the critical tools necessary to carry out their own readings of the mass media. Students will build upon their own interests, knowledge, and enjoyment of media technologies. Throughout the course, theory is combined with practice as students develop the production and editing skills needed to create original and effective media texts. In this A Level, students will acquire and apply a theoretical framework for the critical analysis of media texts through the Theoretical Framework of Language, Audience, Representation, and Industry. Students will study a range of set texts from both history and modern day and apply a variety of theories including Semiotics, Narratology, Structuralism, Postcolonialism, Regulation, and many more. Students will apply these concepts through examining texts covering cultural, historical, and social significance. This framework will then be demonstrated through practical coursework, where students are given the opportunity to respond to a brief and create a professional and original media product.