THE MEDIA STUDIES DEPARTMENT

Welcome to the Media Studies Department.

Our site is under construction so bear with us as we make it as good as we can.

If you want to check out a seriously high tech site follow this link to Mr Allison's fantastic Media Studies website.

http://www.allisonmedia.net/

 

KS3

At KS3, Media Studies is taught within English at The Ellen Wilkinson School.

Students will have an opportunity to apply textual analysis to still and moving images and learn the basic ‘grammar’ of film and video making such as shot types.

GCSE Year 10 and 11

The course involves the study of the Mass Media: TV, Video, Newspapers and Magazines, Radio, Cinema, the Internet and the associated media worlds of Advertising, Photography and Pop Music.

They are studied through a mixed programme involving both classroom analysis and construction of media products.

They can involve visits to media institutions, for example local multiplex cinemas in National Schools Film Week and the London Film Festival, the BFI IMAX cinema and The Guardian Newsroom.

 

You will analyse key concepts such as the still and moving image, narrative, representation, genre and ideology. This builds into coursework which combines the written and the practical, on topics such as Representation of Women and the Family in TV, Cinema, Newspapers, and the creation of products for a targeted audience such as a CD cover and Film posters.

During the course you will make a digital video or photo-story in a genre of your choosing. We have a range of available digital technologies such as still cameras, video cameras and I-MACS with I-Movie editing software. An essential part of making any product is a written commentary and evaluation.

 

GCSE Media Exam Body is the AQA. Click here for more information.

GCSE Assessment Procedure

The coursework folder is worth 50% of the marks, but there is also a controlled test on a different topic each year, which is worth 50%. This will be an examination on a specific TV, Film or Print genre, such as Comedy Films, The Music Press and Children’s Comics, for which pupils are issued with the question paper in advance.

Foundation and Higher tiers are available to ensure inclusion.

In 2006 our GCSE Results were 84.7% A-C so high achievement in Media Studies is accessible for all students.

 

 

A-Level

Film and Media Studies are offered as 6th form subjects.

Film Studies is designed to deepen your understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of film, the major art form of the twentieth century, and a cultural form still of great significance at the beginning of the new millennium.

The WJEC specification works out of the ‘cine-literacy’ you have developed informally since childhood. You will study Cinema as a medium, as an art form and as a social and economic institution. You will also engage with a wide range of different kinds of films, developing skills of observation, critical analysis and personal reflection.

 

The exam body for Film Studies is the WJEC. Click here for more information.

 

 

Media Studies investigates all aspects of the mass media, arguably the most important means by which information, ideas, aesthetic experiences and entertainment are transmitted. The AQA specification develops your knowledge, understanding and use of Media institutions. You will study Documentary, Advertising and Marketing, Television and Cinema as mediums, forms of entertainment and historical, economic and political institutions. You will engage with a wide range of texts,

The Media and Film Studies department is located in E Block.

For more information please see Ms Ingram or Head of Department, Mr McHale