Media

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

PHILOSOPHY & VISION

Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it. These components build on each other to motivate your students by helping on each other to motivate your students by helping them put what they’ve learned into practice and grow in confidence.

As the BTEC Tech Award in Creative Media Production is a practical introduction to life and work in the industry, your students can explore the sector while: • developing technical skills and techniques • producing a digital media product in response to a brief • reviewing and reflecting on the process and outcome. The course has two internally assessed components, and one that's externally assessed: These components build on each other to motivate your students by helping them put what they’ve learned into practice and grow in confidence.

It is all around us, make up your own mind, form your own opinions

Year 10

Coursework based over two components - Examination of existing products aimed at a selected audience as per the brief. Moving image/Print/Interactive platforms. Creation of media products using practical skills ranging from 2 minute film trailer, documentary, magazine, newspaper article depending on students strengths and preferences.

Year 11

Exam focused - Media Forms (Print) - Exploring print forms of media, newspapers, magazines, leaflets and their codes and conventions. All aspects of the exam are covered from research to design tasks. The exam pre-release is issued in January and it will be completed over 10 hours after the 6 week allocated preparation time. Students create a media product using their own assets and written copy using their research findings and design a media product as per the exam brief.

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