Why study Media Studies A Level?
Media Studies is designed to widen the intellectual horizons of the learner through the analysis of both global and historical media. This course will foster the development of critical and reflective thinking to encourage engagement in the critical debates surrounding contemporary media.
First Year Course Content
Students will explore, through the analysis of the news and television industries, how the media construct different representations and how media products are used by institutions to communicate messages to different media audiences.
Students will practically explore the creation of a television advert.
Second Year Course Content
Students will explore how media products are used by institutions to construct different representations and how media audiences interpret these products.
Students will use aspects of media theory to analyse and evaluate their own cross-media productions.
Media in the Digital Age:
Students will analyse and debate the key arguments from the media. These debates will be drawn from:
- a historical perspective
- the digital age
- global media.
Students will explore the creation of three linked media products in a cross-media production within the music industry.
A Level Media Studies has two exams, each two hours, written in May/June and are worth 70%.
The practical unit is worth 30%
Future careers linked to this subject:
- graphic design
- film production
- public relations
- event organiser
- market researcher
Grade 6 in GCSE Media Studies and/or a Grade 6 in English
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