Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

You will enjoy this academic course if you have a serious interest in the media, including TV, film, magazines and newspapers, computer games, music videos, social media, online, and advertising. Over the space of two years, you will engage in critical debate, discussion, and analysis to understand the importance and power of the media. You will also put theory into practice by producing a cross-media creative piece of your design. You will focus on a range of case studies across all of the media industries, including vintage and contemporary products. You will consider the purpose of the text, how it can be interpreted, and explore the effect on the audience. In addition, you will also learn about the historical, cultural, social, and political contexts in which the texts have been created and look at how the ideologies of the media producers are encoded within the media texts.