Media Studies

Media Studies is a vital tool and a necessity in understanding the media’s power and significance. Our aim is to develop the valuable transferable skills and cultural capital required to enable students to develop media literacy, think critically, analyse, evaluate and construct the media. Building on practical skills students will demonstrate their creativity by constructing their own media products.

In Key Stage 4 students have the option to choose GCSE Media Studies. Students will build on the analytical skills that they have developed throughout Key Stage 3 English to analyse media products like films, television programmes and music videos, and their use of images, sound, language, and representations to create meaning. Students will explore the media industry and how the industry affects how media products are made. Students will investigate media audiences, exploring who watches, reads and consumes the products, and consider how different people might be affected by media products differently, and why. Students will build on the digital images knowledge and skills that they acquired during Key Stage 3 Computer Science and learn how to construct their own media products such as  magazines, music videos, television programmes and film marketing.

In Key Stage 5 students have the opportunity to study A Level Media Studies onsite at our Littlehampton Academy College. Students will explore and apply critical perspectives including key media and cultural theorists, and will examine how social, historical, economic and political contexts affect the construction of media productions. Students will carry out in-depth analyses of a range of global media products. Students will also have the opportunity to apply what you have learned through the construction of their own media products, exploring and creating media forms such as music videos, magazines, television, websites and film marketing.

Hours of lessons per fortnight for this subject:

- KS4: 5

- KS5: 8

Eduqas GCSE Media Studies

Eduqas A Level Media Studies

In the Media Studies department we have fully equipped classrooms with access to high tech computers with softwares such as Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro. We also have access to cameras and tripods for students to use. The College also has a Media Studies suite for College students to use during their private study sessions. 

GCSE and A Level Media Studies practical co-curricular and revision sessions.