Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

Media Studies is a course that will be new to most students. It is designed to develop students’ awareness, appreciation and ability to understand and critique the role of the media and specific media texts. Students will evaluate audio-visual texts (tv, film, radio, advertising and marketing, video games and music videos); online texts (social and participatory media, video games, music video, newspapers, magazines, advertising and marketing) and print texts (newspapers, magazines, advertising and marketing). The course has a practical and applied element as the coursework is worth 30% of the A level grade. For the coursework, students will produce a media product (like a newspaper spread, music video, website or advertisement) of their choice that will be as close to what is produced in industry as possible. Creativity and ICT skills will certainly help with this. If students would like to work on their coursework outside of school, Adobe programmes (available through an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription) are incredibly helpful in allowing the production of a high-quality product.