Notice

Popular documents

	Specification (second edition)	PDF, 2152 Kb
	Specimen assessment materials - All units	Zip, 412 Kb

View all documents associated with this qualification.

Overview

This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to harness their media literacy through a comprehensive exploration of the products of media production processes. Throughout the course, students learn a variety of approaches, including the act of production, in order to develop their enjoyment of media texts, by building a framework for critical analysis of their meanings and contexts.

Media Studies, as a subject, complements the study of many subjects in the GCSE curriculum, including English Language and English Literature, as well as other arts and humanities subjects.

With this qualification, students may progress either directly to employment, or to study for an Advanced Level qualification.

Specification aims

This specification is designed to facilitate:

• The development of media literacy skills to enable students to achieve critical independence in their knowledge, experience and enjoyment of the media.
• The development of technical and creative production skills to encourage imaginative and aesthetic activity in media contexts.

The aims of the specification are to:

• Develop students' own prior knowledge and experience of the media, by learning the key approaches to studying the media, through the assessment of the conceptual framework.
• Develop students' knowledge and understanding of the ways in which meaning is constructed through the forms and conventions of the media.
• Develop students' critical knowledge and understanding of the various economic, cultural and ideological ways in which the media function in society and of the associated debates arising from its functions.
• Develop students' awareness of historical contexts of media texts and the relationship between media representation and cultural diversity.
• Enable students to develop an informed understanding of the factors that influence media production processes, by engaging in the production and evaluation of their own practical media production.
• Develop practical media production skills, which offer opportunities for creativity, imagination, enjoyment and self-expression.
• Enable students to utilise ICT opportunities in their media production work.