National 4 Media

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The main purpose of this Course is to analyse and create media content. The Course

enables learners to understand and develop their media literacy skills and appreciate the opportunities and challenges that occur within the media industry. This Course provides learners with opportunities to develop both knowledge and understanding of the media and the ability to create media content.

ASSESSMENT

Analysing Media Content (National 4) - learners will be required to provide evidence of the skills that are needed to analyse media content. Learners will demonstrate knowledge of the relevant key aspects of media literacy central to the straightforward analysis of media content.

Creating Media Content (National 4) - learners will be required to provide evidence of the skills and knowledge that are needed to plan and create media content and comment on production processes. Learners will apply knowledge of the relevant key aspects of media literacy central to creating straight forward media content.

Added Value Unit - The Added Value Unit will address the key purposes and aims of the Course as defined in the Course   Rationale. It will do this by addressing one or more of breadth, challenge and application.

What will my Home Learning commitment be?

You will normally be required to undertake at least 1½ hours each week at National 4 and 5. However, this will be flexible depending on if you have reading to do or an  assessment to  prepare for.

IS MEDIA FOR ME?

It is if you want to:

·  learn about how media saturates everything we do in the developed world in the 21st Century and how to analyse and critique the media to see the ways in which the media pervades our lives.

· Improve literacy skills, learn how to write detailed critiques of the media in a way that’s more intuitive than writing essays for other subjects. Learn a great deal of new terminology much of which can be used in other subjects, including English, the Social Subjects, Design Technology and Science.

· Make your own films, write your own newspapers, set up your own websites, editing software.