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This course aims to teach you how to analyse television, video, film, radio, newspapers, magazines, comics, photography, the music business, advertising, language, conventions, producers and audiences.
You will work on a number of projects and will produce a folder of coursework. The course will respond to issues of interest in the media, but you can expect to study some of the following topics:
Image analysis
Stereotyping/representation
Genre/style
News values and news production
Audience
New technology
In Year 11 you will take part in a practical production. You will have the opportunity to sustain a chosen study from your first ideas, through research and planning to a finished media product. Together with this production you will need to write a supporting account which records your research, planning and evaluation of the process.
