Media/Film/Tv Studies

Course summary

Media Studies explore a range of contemporary forms of mass communication such as TV drama, music videos, video games, advertising and film marketing, newspapers and magazines, and online and social media. The course combines theoretical exploration and analysis with practice and you will develop a range of technical skills throughout the course as you explore and produce your media products. The lessons will include critical discussions, presentations, annotations and deconstructions of a range of media texts, theoretical exploration, debates and essay writing. The course shares a lot of skills with English as you explore the meaning and messages which are encoded in media products that we consume every day. Increasingly, our lives are becoming saturated with media as we use it as entertainment, for communication and to express ourselves. This course gives you a critical standpoint to be able to explore the power the media can have in shaping society. It is an essay‐based subject and, because the content of A-level Media Studies is firmly embedded within cultural, socio‐political and economic life, it sits well alongside many subjects. Media Studies can also develop a wide range of transferable skills including analysis, visual communication, problem-solving, as well as communication, presentation and organisational skills.