Media Studies (Welsh Board)
This course develops your understanding of the ways in which the media work.You will study TV programmes, films, advertising, popular music and newspapers and the impact of new media technologies including the Internet.You will study the ways in which the media industry works and how audiences receive and use the media products.
Entry Requirements
Students should have gained 5 GCSEs at grade C or above including English Language.
Course Content
Media Concepts
The media concepts running throughout the course are: Media Language; Representations;Audiences; Institutions and Media Genres.
AS Unit 1: Media Representations and Responses 2 hrs 30 mins exam
This unit provides a framework for analysing the media and explores representations and audience/user responses.You explore the media through a study of genre, narrative and representation and make connections between texts and audience/user responses to them. In the developing area of interactive media, this involves considering users and their interaction with texts.The representations of social/cultural groups, events, issues and their underlying messages and values will be explored using a range of approaches.
AS Unit 2: Media Production Processes
This unit enables you to demonstrate knowledge, understanding and skills in media production processes.
You will be required to produce three pieces of linked work:
• a pre-production reflecting research and demonstrating planning techniques
• a production which has developed out of the pre-production
• a report on the production process
A2 Unit 3: Media Investigation And Production
This develops the knowledge and skills acquired at AS. In particular, it is designed to demonstrate the importance of research in informing media production.
You are required to produce three pieces of linked work:
• a research investigation (1400 - 1800 words)
• a production (informed by the investigation)
• a brief evaluation (500 - 750 words).
A2 Unit 4: Media - Text, Industry And Audience 2 hr 30 mins exam
This unit develops your understanding of the relationships between media texts, their audiences and the industries which produce and distribute them; and the debates surrounding the nature of that relationship.