Media Studies is the kind of course in which students are very actively involved and, as a consequence, confidence and expertise can increase quite sharply. Practical work forms part of the course and students are given the opportunity to create their own cross-media production. We look at both traditional and new media and consider many of the big changes that have occurred in the media world and their impact on our lives. Course Content Production work is 30% of the course and is delivered through an industry-standard brief. You will have a choice of options and will then have to develop a product to meet the brief that’s been set. This is fully practical and will see you involved in photography, graphic design, image manipulation, moving images, video editing, website production, radio broadcasting, and film promotion. You choose the brief and the media technologies to play to your strengths and interests – a real selling point of the course we think. Everything in Media Studies A Level falls into four main areas of study – language, representation, audience, and industry so this means that whatever you’re learning about will be able to be related to one of these four concepts in some way. This applies to your own practical work as well.