Media Studies

Applications for 2025 entry open on Wednesday 6th November 2024. Please do not submit your application before this date. Please apply via PS16 on via our website.

Shaping the Media of tomorrow

The A Level Media course will explore these and many other questions through contemporary and historical media texts from the UK and other parts of the world, and productions from outside the commercial mainstream.

Content - As a GCE Media Studies student, you will analyse how media products use language and representations to create meaning. You will learn about the media industry and how the industry affects how media products are made. You will investigate media audiences, exploring who are the people who watch, read and consume the products and considering how different people might respond to products differently, and why. You will study many different media forms, such as:

• Television

• Online Media

• Advertising and Marketing

• Film Marketing

• Magazines

• Newspapers

• Music Videos

• Radio

• Video Games

You will explore and apply critical perspectives including those of world-renowned media and cultural theorists, and will examine how social, historical, political and economic contexts affect media production. You will also have the opportunity to apply what you have learned through the production of your own media texts, exploring and creating media forms such as music videos, magazines, television, websites and film marketing.

Assessment will comprise of a mixture of examined and non-examined assessment

• Component 1: 35% of qualification Written examination - 2 hours 15 mins

• Component 2: 35% of qualification Written examination - 2 hours 30 mins

• Coursework: Cross-Media Production, 30% of qualification

General entry requirements with a grade 5 or above at English language

Over one hundred universities offer courses in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies in the UK. A GCE in Media Studies helps you to progress to these courses, as well as to those in other areas such English, Humanities and Social Sciences.

There is a huge array of career opportunities in the media, which is an industry that is growing at an exponential rate. If you are looking for a job in this area, studying Media at GCE and at degree level is a route into careers such as TV and film production, advertising, journalism, interactive media, and digital marketing. It could help to provide you with the foundation to secure roles in technical production, special effects, web design and post production.