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Vision
To develop media skills that will enthral, intrigue and affect audiences in a positive manner
Disciplinary Concepts
- Explore and develop digital skills and techniques
- Produce digital products in response to a brief
- Review and reflect on processes and outcomes
- Understand the processes that underpins effective ways of working in creative media production
- Explore the relationship between genre, narrative and representation in media products
- Extend your knowledge and understanding by deconstruction existing media products
- Explore media terminology, semiotics, theories, concepts and messages
- Make connections between polysemic messages underpinning media representations and their related values and effects on wider society
- Use various editing techniques to create meaning and communicate messages
Big Questions
- How do audiences interpret media content?
- How do developers create/design content to engage the audience?
- Why are the audience and purpose essential to designers and developers?
- How to maximise the IT resources at our disposal in a given scenario?
- How to interpret the needs of a given IT client?
- How can we design systems that are intuitive yet minimise user errors?
- What is the most efficient way of creating a management information using databases?
- What impact does social media has on businesses?
- What is the most effective way of using social media in businesses?
- How to plan, create and implement the use of social media in a business.
Curriculum Content
Year 10 – Edexcel BTEC Level 2 Tech Award in Creative Media Production
Component 1 – Exploring Media Content
Component 2 – Developing digital media production skills
Year 11 – Edexcel BTEC Level 2 Tech Award in Creative Media Production
Component 2 – Developing digital media production skills
Component 3: Create a Media Product in Response to a Brief
Year 12 – Edexcel BTEC Level 3 Creative Media Production
Unit 1: Media Representations
Unit 8: Responding to a Commission
Year 13 – Edexcel BTEC Level 3 Creative Media Production
Unit 4: Preproduction Portfolio
Unit 10: Film Production - Fiction