media

**__Media Studies GCSE (OCR)__**  **" . . . In the modern world, media literacy will become as important a skill as maths or science. Decoding our media will be as important to our lives as citizens as understanding great literature is to our cultural lives"** (//Tessa Jowell, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport)//


====Media Studies is an option for pupils entering Year 10. ====


====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> This exciting, practical course will give pupils opportunities to develop an understanding of how newspapers, magazines, films, websites and adverts are created and affect their targeted audience. Entrants will study how the media has changed over time, from the rise of radio to the increasingly important internet. ====

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==== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">As well as practical tasks, pupils will also focus on media theory in both a classroom environment and independently through utilising a newly-designed course website ( <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|www.heartlandsmedia.wikispaces.com] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">), and also using their acquired knowledge and practical skills to contribute to an online magazine entitled ‘Heartlands Voice’ throughout their 2 year course to extend and reinforce their skills. ==== ==== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The Year 10 students will also work together to run the student newspaper for the Heartlands community - run by students, for students. The online news magazine [|www.heartlandsvoice.wikispaces.com] will extend media skills and encourage whole-school literacy and critical thinking. ====

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==== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The course is also designed to improve pupils’ ICT skills, preparing the way for further education and giving students the creative skills to express themselves in today’s modern world. ====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Pupils will undertake a range of tasks to produce a ‘media portfolio’ throughout the course, which makes up 50% of the final assessment at GCSE level. Pupils will also sit two exams at the end of Year 11 which make up the other 50% of their assessment. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Some of the topics studied on the course include: <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> §  Newspapers <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> §  TV and Magazines <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> §  Advertising <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> §  Film Genre, Narrative and Marketing <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> §  New Media <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> §      <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Media language and theory

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[|Media Studies at Heartlands]