Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

For students who are interested in film, TV, music video, video games, advertising. Interogating images seen every day. Learning about the Creativity and innovation behind TV Programmes, learn to decode texts and messages and images and learning about the context in which they are produced. The syllabus followed and outlined below is AQA. It combines practical work with theory and focuses on a variety of media forms. At AS and A level, students follow the AQA Media Studies course and are taught to apply and develop their understanding of the media through both analysing and producing media products. Students are required to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Media Language, Media Industries, Audiences and Representation. These areas are explored through a range of contemporary and pre-1970 Media including television, film, radio, newspapers, magazines, advertising, music video and video games, as well as through online, social and participatory media. Students that have previously studied the media at GCSE level will find that the course extends their pre-existing media knowledge through the requirement that they study at least one media product produced for a non-English speaking audience and at least one produced outside the commercial mainstream. The course also includes study of contrasting media products that possess cultural, social and historical significance. Depth of study and academic rigour is also presented through engagement with complex media theories including structuralism, postmodernism and theories around ethnicity and postcolonialism.