Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

This is a very rewarding and enriching course, which requires you to be critical of the world around you. We live in an incredibly media saturated society where we are being constantly bombarded with information and images from Television, the Internet, Social media, and any number of other sources. Studying Media allows you to analyze, interpret and evaluate these everyday products we take for granted and can further your understanding of them. For example, if a director chooses to use an Extreme Close Up on an object, this creates what’s known as ‘Forced Perspective’ whereby the audience has nothing else to look at in the shot and so the object becomes much more important and desirable. You will develop your skills of media literacy by studying a range of Media Products and exploring how they were made and what meaning they offer audiences, from film and TV to websites and apps to magazines and adverts and much, much more.