Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

This is a two-year course that explores Media texts across the three platforms of Broadcast, Print, and E-Media. Students will be expected to deconstruct texts to understand how they communicate with potential audiences as well as to learn how to construct texts of their own in simulated production exercises. The course will be anchored to the four key concepts of Language, Institutions, Audience, and Representation. Students with an interest in or enthusiasm for advertising, TV, photography, film, magazines, newspapers, computer games, animation, radio, websites, and social media should consider this course. This course may also be useful to students who are considering potential Media careers in the future. Students interested in the role of the media in culture and its part in shaping or challenging ideology might enjoy some of the class discussions. Students will need to secure good passes in English or Media at GCSE to take this course. English Faculty.