Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

Media shapes the way we see ourselves as well as others and can be a powerful tool for societal change. This course gives you opportunities to study many aspects of this absorbing subject and you’ll be guided and supported by our engaging specialist teachers throughout. You’ll study and learn about a range of media and how they are constructed from texts, to films, to advertising as well as creating your own in practical projects. You will research and analyse a range of texts from television, cinema and video games, the press and broadcast news and radio. You will learn specialist terminology and investigate who is constructing the text, how it is constructed and for what audience. You will study a range of media products, which reflect different social, historical, and cultural contexts. You’ll also be able to develop your knowledge and understanding of theories and concepts related to media language, representation, media industries and audiences. Finally, you’ll be able to apply your knowledge and understanding when independently creating your own media texts. You will study at least one media product produced for a non-English speaking audience and at least one produced outside the commercial mainstream. You will also learn about complex media theories including structuralism, postmodernism and theories around ethnicity and post-colonialism.