Media Curriculum Statement 2025
Intent
Why Media Studies?
Try to imagine our society without the media and you might begin to appreciate the degree to which the modern world is dependent on and shaped by the media it produces. Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, advertising, film, music and the internet – media is manufactured and consumed in more forms and in greater quantities than ever before.
Media Studies provides kinesthetic learning by letting you create your own media products, like film trailers or music videos. The skills you learn in Media Studies help you in English too. If you study them together you can get better grades in both subjects.
Aims and Objectives
Media studies offers a broad, coherent and rigorous course of study, which will prepare students to make informed decisions about further study and progression to GCSE, AS and A level or employment.
Specifications in media studies must enable students to:
- demonstrate skills of enquiry, critical thinking, decision-making and analysis
- acquire knowledge and understanding of a range of important media issues
- develop appreciation and critical understanding of the media and their role both historically and currently in society,cultureand politics
- understand and apply specialist subject-specific terminology to analyse and compare media products and the contexts in which they are produced and consumedin order to make informed arguments, reach substantiated judgements and draw conclusions about media issues
- appreciate how theoretical understanding supports practice and practice supports theoretical understanding
- develop practical skills by providing opportunities for creative media production
Content
The four areas of Media Studies that we will study at Brookfield School are:
- Media language: how the media through their forms , codes and conventions communicate meanings
- Representation: how the media portray events, issues, individuals and social groups
- Media industries: how the media industries processes of production, distribution and circulation affect media forms and platforms
- Audiences: how media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them, and how members of audiences become producers themselves
And these will be applied to the following media products:
- Film/TV
- Radio/Podcasting
- Print media
- Advertising and marketing
- Online, social and participatory media
- Video games
- Music industry
KS3 Media Studies
For years 8 and 9 I have designed a curriculum based on the existing KS4 Model and implemented a bite size version taking into account differentiation and individual learner needs.
KS3 Media Studies:
Media Studies in Year 8
- What is Media?
- Media language
- Comics/Print Media/Narrative
- Video Games / Online gaming
- Film Studies
- Analysis
Media Studies in Year 9
- The music industry
- Television
- Radio and podcasting
- Newspapers/ Magazine
- Mock OCR (Create a website, magazine, website)