Media/Film/Tv Studies

Assessment

At A Level we follow the OCR exam board. In the first-year students focus on media language and representation and apply it to the magazine, advertising and music video industries and the case studies (The Big Issue magazine, Old Spice, Lucozade, Shelter advertising, Corrine Bailey Rae – Stop Where You Are and David Guetta – Titanium.) Following this they will study the news and online and long form television drama industries and case studies (The Daily Mail, The Guardian, Stranger Things and Deutschland 83). Following an in-depth study, they will then apply this to the whole theoretical framework and media contexts. Using the 16 theories studied. students will evaluate the usefulness and limitations of theory in relation to their studies. In March, as the brief is released from the exam board students will start the research and planning of their coursework. In the second year of the A Level studies will learn the processes, codes and conventions of the film, radio and video games industries and case studies (The Jungle Book 1967 and 2016, BBC Radio 1 The Breakfast Show and Minecraft). Students will also revise the long form television industry and all the case studies that come along with this. In this year students will complete their creative coursework on photoshop. All classes are taught all the content to a high level as we have high expectations of all our students, regardless of ability. There is also lots of scope to build cultural capital through discuss of topics like changing ideas of sexuality, gender and ethnicity in the UK which is represented through a majority of the media products studied.