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Media studies is about the active exploration, analysis, creation, and enjoyment of the media and its products.
Media studies examines the dynamic role of the media in society, how the media constructs messages about individuals, communities, and cultures and how media products are produced, controlled, and distributed.
Through media studies students gain the knowledge and skills to conceive, plan, design and make media products that engage audiences.
This course offers a combination of both internal and external credits
UE approved domain
UE literacy credits
Course endorsement available
Media Studies Scholarship Available
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WHY STUDY media studies AT YEAR 13?
WHY STUDY media studies AT YEAR 13?
Media Studies is designed to develop your critical thinking and analytical skills. Through the examination, analysis and critical application of a range of theories, along with the practical application of your understanding of the production process, you will gain the confidence to be more discerning about the impact of media on society.
This is a Level 3 NCEA Media Studies course. It offers students the opportunity to study a number of aspects of film theory, undertake research and film production.
Through exploring how and why media texts are developed, produced, and distributed you will gain an appreciation of the impact of media on shaping perceptions, social ideologies and perpetuating dominant ideologies. Through developing this understanding you will be able to be more discerning towards the way media texts impact their view of the world and gain a critical understanding of how the views of others are shaped. You will also be able to:
Ask questions, gather information and background ideas, and examine relevant current issues.
Explore and analyse people’s values and perspectives.
Consider the ways in which people make decisions and participate in social action.
Reflect on and evaluate the understandings they have developed and the responses that may be required.
What will I learn?
What will I learn?
You will learn how and why the construction of media texts shape perceptions about groups, cultures, issues, morals and values in society.
You will write a screenplay adhering to the formatting of such texts and undertake a documentary production which will explore a relevant and current issue in today’s society.
You will examine media texts in order to develop your understanding and appreciation of the way society creates its own mythologies.
You will examine the social, political and economic implications of media texts in society through examining a significant film genre, and the representation of specific groups in media texts.
You will develop a thesis and research secondary sources which examine a current development in the media.
What WILL I DO?
What WILL I DO?
You will:
View and analyse a range of media texts, specifically film and documentaries,
Write a screenplay for a documentary.
Produce a documentary.
Engage with a range of secondary sources to support your understanding.
Learn how to select authentic, credible sources to support your critical understanding of media text.
Write academic essays which respond to a given thesis.
Undertake a research topic which will require you to develop a thesis, research relevant credible sources which you will use to support your thesis in the form of an essay or report.
wHAT will I NEED?
wHAT will I NEED?
You should:
Have a keen interest in the production of media texts and the impact they have in society.
Be motivated to source and engage with media texts and secondary sources which interests you.
Be motivated to develop your critical thinking and extended abstract thinking skills.
Have a desire to improve your academic writing.
Be motivated to participate in class discussions.
Be interested in learning how to better engage with online resources that will support your learning.
Have completed Level 2 Media Studies, English, History or Classical Studies.
How is this course assessed?
How is this course assessed?
Internal Assessments
AS91492 (3.3) [3 credits] Demonstrate understanding of media representation of an aspect of New Zealand culture or society will be an essay which responds to a given thesis.
AS91497 (3.8) [3 credits] Write a media text to meet the requirements of a brief will be a script for your documentary
AS91494 (3.5) [4 credits] Produce a design for a media product that meets the requirements of a brief will be a portfolio outlining how you will undertake the making of your documentary including discussion on the techniques and conventions you will use, an analysis of your intended audience and pre-production activities.
AS91495 (3.6) [6 credits] Produce a media product to meet the requirements of a brief will be a practical production of a documentary
External Assessments:
AS91493 (3.4) Demonstrate understanding of the relationship between a media genre and society will be an essay response to a chosen statement based on the Gangster Genre.
NZQA Subject Resources
https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/subjects/media-studies/levels/
School Policy for NCEA Assessment
You should be aware of the school procedures for NCEA assessment. They can be found on the school website at this link. There you will find answers to frequently asked questions about how NCEA works as well as guidance about how to apply for extensions, reconsiderations or the process for withdrawing from a standard.
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Dan Slater is in charge of Media Studies – please feel free to contact him:
d.slater@wc.school.nz
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