Year One Year One Media Studies will introduce learners to four key elements : Media Language - how the media encodes through their forms, codes, conventions and techniques communicates meaning. Learners will consider the different ways in which audiences may decode, interpret and respond to the messages and values presented by the media. Media Representation - how the media portrays events, issues, individuals, and social groupings (for examples gender and social class). Learners will investigate how media language is used to construct and communicate representations and the implications of these representations. Media Industries - how the media industry as a whole works, the processes of production, distribution and marketing. Learners will explore how different industries will produce different texts, aimed at different audiences, often with different themes, values, attitudes and beliefs. Media Audiences - how media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them and how members of the audience become producers themselves. Year Two Year Two Media Studies will delve deeper into these elements At both levels learners will have the opportunity to also create their own media products. For AS Level learners will produce one media product (e.g. a music video or website to promote a new artist/band, a television commercial). At A Level learners will create a cross-media portfolio made up of a number of media products across a range of forms (for example a music video, a website, a magazine advert, a digi pack to promote a new artist/band)
Name: Media Studies Qualification title: - Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment Awarding - Created 20161117 11:44:47 Updated 20161117 11:44:47
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