You will study texts from different media platforms, products and technologies, including print, broadcasting and e-media. You will look at contemporary media landscape and its changing contexts and will develop an understanding its influence on today’s society and contemporary media issues.

At AS Level, you will produce two linked media artefacts from two of the three media platforms. Units 1 and 2 provide an integrated and complementary introduction to the study of the media and the contemporary media landscape, underpinned by a set of key media concepts (Media Forms, Media Representations, Media Institutions and Media Audiences) and media platforms (Broadcasting, Digital/web-based media (E-media) and Print).

On completion of this course many students go on to study Media Studies at university. Other popular choices are Advertising, Communications, Design, English, Journalism, Business Management or Public Relations. Career choices may be: Journalism, Law, Advertising and Marketing, Production (Print/Broadcasting/E-media), Publishing, Teaching, ICT, Research, PR, Music.