Course Overview
The aim of Media Studies is to enable you to understand the impact media agencies and products have on our lives; to communicate clearly and to express ideas using different mediums; to develop skills in organization and working to deadlines; to encourage working collaboratively with others; to increase personal confidence and skills in the practical handling of media technologies; to understand how people, issues and places are represented by the media and to understand the production processes involved with media. There are a number of different standards offered in Media Studies. Some of them are essay based and require a strong grasp of essay writing skills. Of the remaining standards,, one requires you to create a detailed plan of a media product. The other requires you to create a media product. The third requires you to write a script or screenplay for your media product (usually a short film).
This class will be entered in four internals. One of which will be decided upon after consultation with the class at the start of the year. The class will also select one of the two externals on offer. One external explores the relationship between a genre and society and builds upon the genre external from level 2. The other external explores a media industry and theoretically builds upon the media product external from level 2. Note: you do not need to have taken level 2 Media to be successful in this class.
Topics covered include:
- Screenplay writing
- Media interpretation and analysis
- Media genre and society
- Media products (planning, creating and influence)
- Media Industries
Tags covered include
The Teacher
Richard Wallis
0Students 2 Courses
Course Details
| Standard No * | Standard title | credit value | Internal/External |
| 91494 v2 | Produce a design for a media product that meets the requirements of a brief. | 4 | Internal |
| 91495 v2 | Produce a media product to meet the requirements of a brief. | 6 | Internal |
| 91497 v2 | Write a media text to meet the requirements of a brief. | 3 | Internal |
| AND | 0 | ||
| 91496 v2 | Demonstrate understanding of a significant development in the media. | 3 | Internal |
| or | 0 | ||
| 91491 v2 | Demonstrate understanding of the meaning of a media text through different readings | 3 | Internal |
| 91492 v2 | Demonstrate understanding of the media representation of an aspect of New Zealand culture or society. | 3 | Internal |
| ALSO | Students will be entered in ONE of these two externals (to be determined after consultation with the class). | 0 | |
| 91490 v2 | Demonstrate understanding of an aspect of a media industry. | 4 | External |
| 91493 v3 | Demonstrate understanding of a relationship between a media genre and society | 4 | External |
Learning Exchange
1.00 placement
OR Cost
$1725.00
