Media Studies

Course/ Module Aims

All AS and A level specifications in Media Studies are designed to encourage candidates to: 

• Enhance their enjoyment and appreciation of the media and its role in their daily lives
• Develop critical understanding of the media through engagement with media products and concepts and through the creative application of production skills
• Explore production processes, technologies and other relevant contexts
• Become independent in research skills and their application in their production work and in developing their own views and interpretations.

Pupils will develop:

• Their ability to examine a media text in detail, employing appropriate analytical tools and language
• An understanding that texts are constructed
• An understanding of how social/cultural groups, events and issues are represented in media texts.
• An understanding of how audiences respond to and interpret texts.

Staff

• Mr I Harrison, Subject Leader, Director of Information and Communication Technology
• Ms C Braybrook, 2nd Deputy Headteacher part-time (Curriculum)
• Mr J Currer
• Mr M Dixon, i/c Business Studies, 2nd in ICT Department
• Mr M English, E-Learning Co-ordinator
• Miss C Forsyth
• Mr P McGinn
• Miss R Mason
• Miss C Talbot, Gifted & Talented Coordinator
• Mrs L Watson