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| GCSE Media Studies is an OCR course designed to build on existing media awareness and contribute to future learning. Pupils who opt for the Media Studies course can choose to further their skills in A level courses and at degree level with a view to various careers within the media. |
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| The Course |
There is a great deal of flexibility within the course for pupils to specialise in areas they are most interested in. Through a variety of approaches, this course will allow candidates to develop their enjoyment of media texts, in addition to developing a framework for critical analysis of meanings and contexts.
The course specification integrates theoretical and practical approaches to the subject which includes two Controlled Assessment Units and one examinable unit. |
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| Unit B321 - The Individual Media Studies Portfolio |
| Candidates produce an individual portfolio containing an assignment, production exercise and a planning and evaluative commentary based on at least two media texts. Some of the topics offered are: |
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Film Genres |
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Popular Music |
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Celebrity |
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Soap Opera |
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Sport in the Media |
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News |
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Advertising |
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Video Games |
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| Unit B322/B323 - Textual Analysis and Media Studies Topic |
| This is an examinable unit where Candidates in Section A analyse and respond to a short, unseen moving image or print extract |
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The set choices until 2013 are:
Action Adventure films or Lifestyle Magazines. |
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| In Section B, candidates answer questions based on Audience and Institution through the study of Television COmedy and/or Radio comedy texts. |
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| Unit B324 - Production Portfolio in Media Studies |
| Within this unit, each pupil produces a major practical production. They also produce their own evidence of research and planning alongside an evaluation of their finished product. |
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| Candidates can choose from a series of the following set briefs: |
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Newspaper sample |
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New magazine sample |
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A print based advertising campaign |
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A new computer/video game cover |
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| Career Opportunities |
| If the GCSE Media Studies is followed up in Further Education then skilled individuals can go on to work in: |
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Television |
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Marketing |
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Radio |
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Theatre |
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Advertising |
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News |
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