Media Studies

Course summary

1. Media Messages Students study news and online, social and participatory media in depth and learn about how media language is used to construct representations and meaning in a variety of set media products. 2. Evolving Media Students consider how media industries are evolving and using technology to reach, target and address audiences through a variety of set media products. Students also consider the media language, representations and messages and values communicated by long-form television drama and how these dramas are produced and consumed globally. 3. Creating Media Students create a cross-media product for an intended audience in response to a set brief. This gives them the opportunity to work independently and develop expertise built from their study in components 01 and 02.