Media

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Media studies allows students to explore how the media produce and distribute information, entertainment and ideas. Media studies develops skills in the areas of critical and creative thinking, personal and interpersonal skills, research and producing media texts. The ability to critically assess media output and manipulation of ideas is important to enable students to access the media knowledgeably and help prepare them for life, learning and the world of work.

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Broad General Education

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All S1 and S2 pupils receive 1 hour of Drama / Media per week.  Therefore, the time is split between both subjects.  In S1 students will have Drama from Aug – Dec and then change to Media from Jan – June.  In S2 this changes to a unit by unit approach starting with a Unit of Drama (Aug-Oct), changing to a Unit of Media (Oct-Jan) and then finishing with a combined unit (Feb-June).  The courses are aligned to the BGE Expressive Arts, Literacy and Health and Wellbeing benchmarks and offer opportunities to develop skills through a variety of practical based activities.

In S1 and S2 students are introduced to the basic concepts of media. We look at the key aspects of media representation, audience and media language. Skills are developed through a variety of written and practical tasks such as analysis and production of adverts, film posters and film genres.

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