Media Studies
GCSE Media Studies
Students will analyse how media products like TV programmes and music videos use images, sounds, language, and representations to create meaning. They will learn about the media industry and how the industry affects how media products are made. Investigating media audiences and exploring who the people are who watch, read and consume the products, is also an important part of the course which leads the students on to considering how different people might be affected by media products differently, and why. Students will study lots of different media forms, such as: television, online media advertising and marketing, film marketing, magazines, newspapers, social and participatory, media music video, radio and video games
There is also a significant amount of practical work where students will have the opportunity to choose a media product to produce. They will choose from a range of different options, which will encompass; music videos, magazines, television programmes, advertisements and more.
GCSE Media Specification:
https://www.eduqas.co.uk/qualifications/media-studies-gcse/#tab_overview
Enrichment
Media Studies offers a wide range of enrichment opportunities, from subject support sessions through to access to academic websites and texts that allow the students to explore their own individual interests. In addition to this we also offer a ‘watch with’ club, in which students are provided with a list of interesting television shows that they can watch at home and then discuss when they come into school.
Useful Links
https://resources.eduqas.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs.aspx?subId=20&lvlId=2
A Level Media Studies
Students, will analyse how media products like TV programmes and music videos use images, sounds, language, and representations to create meaning. They will learn about the media industry and how the industry affects how media products are made. Investigating media audiences and exploring who the people are who watch, read and consume the products, is also an important part of the course which leads the students on to considering how different people might be affected by media products differently, and why. Students will study lots of different media forms, such as; television, online media, advertising and marketing, film marketing, magazines, newspapers, social and participatory media, music video, radio and video games
Students will explore and apply critical perspectives including those of world-renowned media and cultural theorists, and will examine how social, historical, political and economic contexts affect media production. Students will also have the opportunity to apply what they have learned through the production of their own media texts, exploring and creating media forms such as music videos, magazines, television, websites and film marketing.
A Level Media Specification:
https://www.eduqas.co.uk/qualifications/media-studies-as-a-level/#tab_overview
Useful Links:
https://resources.eduqas.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs.aspx?subId=20&lvlId=1
