Media Studies
BackMedia studies is the study of communication through a range of media forms. It teaches media literacy: the ability to identify and analyse media messages as well as to react and reflect on their intent and purpose.
| Year 12 | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 |
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New Knowledge: |
Media Language, Representation and Audiences Advertising and marketing: Tide, Kiss of The Vampire, Super.Human Music videos: Seventeen Going Under, Turntables |
Film industry: I, Daniel Blake, Black Panther Newspaper Industry and Audiences: Daily Mirror, The Times Radio Industry and Audiences: Have You Heard George’s Podcast? |
Video games Industry and Audiences: Assassin’s Creed NEA: Research and Planning, Statement of Aims Introduction to Component 2: Television in the Global Age |
| Previous Knowledge Required: | Textual analysis skills |
Marketing Audience theories |
Theory: Hesmondhalgh, Curran and Seaton |
| New Skills: |
Theory: Barthes, Levi-Strauss, Todorov, hooks, Van Zoonen, Gauntlett, Butler, Hall, Gerbner Historical, social and cultural contexts |
Theory: Hesmondhalgh, Curran and Seaton, Livingstone and Lunt, Gilroy Economic and political contexts |
Theory: Baudrillard, Neale, Jenkins, Bandura Research skills – primary and secondary |
| Links to the School Curriculum: |
Historical contexts: 1950s/60s Representation of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, disability and associated sociopolitical issues |
Role of the BBC in the UK and globally Regulation of the media Impartiality and political bias |
Regulation in the online age Research skills |
| Independent Activities: |
Glossary: Resource Historical contexts: Resource |
Media Industries: Resource | TV and contexts - Blended Learning |
| Web Links: | AS and A Level Media Studies | Eduqas | AS and A Level Media Studies | Eduqas | AS and A Level Media Studies | Eduqas |
| Year 13 | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 |
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New Knowledge: |
Television in the Global Age: Black Mirror and The Returned NEA – Cross-media production Component One revision for mock exams
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Magazines: Mainstream and Alternative: Vogue and The Big Issue Media in the Online Age: KSI and THIIIRD website Submission of NEA |
Revision for Components 1 and 2 |
| Previous Knowledge Required: |
Theoretical perspectives on Media Language, Representation, Audience and Industry Media contexts: historical, social, cultural, economic, political |
Theoretical perspectives on Media Language, Representation, Audience and Industry Media contexts: historical, social, cultural, economic, political |
Theoretical perspectives on Media Language, Representation, Audience and Industry Media contexts: historical, social, cultural, economic, political |
| New Skills: |
Production skills Evaluation of theory written responses |
Theory: Shirky |
Theory: Baudrillard, Neale, Jenkins, Bandura Research skills – primary and secondary |
| Links to the School Curriculum: |
Rise of digital technology in society and effect on audience consumption |
Independent magazines, The Big Issue Foundation, homelessness |
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| Independent Activities: |
Media (TV) theory and TV - Blended Learning Black Mirror - Blended Learning The Returned: Resource |
Magazines: Resource Online media and contexts - Blended Learning |
Exam walk through |
| Web Links: | AS and A Level Media Studies | Eduqas | AS and A Level Media Studies | Eduqas | AS and A Level Media Studies | Eduqas |