Media Studies
“The media represents a world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realising what it really is.” – Jean Baudrillard
As part of the Performing Arts Faculty Media shares a common approach to the school’s leaning ethos. For more Information about learning in the performing arts, please click here
Overview
Media is about communication, particularly mass communication with lots of people. The media creates products that are designed to entertain and inform, created for lots of people to hear, watch or read, often at roughly the same time. Whenever you are watching television, streaming films, scrolling through social media or listening to a podcast, you are consuming media.
Media is part of the Performing Arts faculty and allows students to develop their analytical and production skills in an area of study that is rapidly changing and is a significant feature of our everyday lives in the 21st Century
Analyse & Explore
Media Studies involves the close analysis of the images, sounds and text that we experience via the media. It is the study of individual media texts (such as films, TV shows, magazines, websites) and
- Who made them (“institution”)?
- How they were made (“process”)?
- Why they were made (“purpose”)?
- Who they were made for (“audience”)?
- What rules were followed when making them (“conventions” and “genre”)?
Create & Develop
In Media Studies you will apply your knowledge and understanding developed through analysis and exploration in the creation of digital media products. You will be supported in this through the use of software tools such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Audition and Premier in our specialist Mac Suite.
Share & Evaluate
Successful media studies students evaluate their work at all times ensuring that they are aware at all times of the following:-
- Audience
- Context
- Content
You can find more information about Media including Curriculum Information on the KW-Arts website here.