Trinity AcademyCreative Media Production
Year 10
Units Taught:
- Component 1: Exploring media products
- Investigate media products
- Explore how media products are created to provide meaning and engage audiences.
- Component 2: Developing Digital Media Production Skills
- Develop and apply media pre-production processes, skills and techniques
- Develop and apply media production and post-production processes, skills and techniques to create a media product.
Main Skills Developed
Detailed analytical skills exploring the way in which the media constructs texts that target and appeal to different audiences and how those audiences respond.
Students develop an understanding of the varying representations which are used within the media to communicate messages and what impact these may have on different audience groups.
A range of narrative structures and devices are analysed to understand how products build the concept of a story and how that story subsequently fits in to a specific genre through the use of codes and conventions.
Students will undertake a range of practical workshops in which they learn essential media skills including scriptwriting, photo storyboards, typography, digital editing and flat planning.
How can parents help support learning?
Encourage students to engage with the media on a wider scale than perhaps they normally would by exploring different types of film and television programme, reading newspapers and magazines or comparing official websites to fan made sites.
Where possible, support students in their development of practical skills such as staging and taking photographs, writing copy for articles and computer based editing. There are a number of useful online programmes which can be used for editing images or writing that students can access free of charge both at home and in school.
Useful Websites
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
Year 10 students are welcome to attend after school practical skills and study support sessions on a Tuesday and Thursday until 4pm in Room 207.
Trinity Academy also participates in the BBC Young Reporter scheme (formerly School Report) with various activities taking place throughout the year.
SMSC and British Values
Close study of the contexts of production and how that may have influenced production in a positive or negative way for example, the equal rights movement.
The power of the media and the right to freedom of speech.
The exploration of audience responses and how a text may impact audience members in different ways based on their individual beliefs, feelings and values.
Year 11
Units Taught:
Component 3: Create a Media Product in Response to a Brief
- Understand how to develop ideas in response to a brief
- Develop planning materials in response to a brief
- Apply media production skills and techniques to the creation of a media product
- Create and refine a media product to meet the requirements of a brief
Main Skills Developed
Students develop their pre-production, production and post-production skills through practical work to devise a series of original texts from one or more of the three media platforms demonstrating creative and technical skill in all areas of planning and production. This is done in the classroom environment for Component 2 and under examination conditions for Component 3.
How can parents help support learning?
Encourage students to engage with the media on a wider scale than perhaps they normally would by exploring different types of film and television programme, reading newspapers and magazines or comparing official websites to fan made sites.
Where possible, support students in their development of practical skills such as staging and taking photographs, writing copy for articles and computer based editing. There are a number of useful online programmes which can be used for editing images or writing that students can access free of charge both at home and in school.
Useful Websites
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
Year 11 students are welcome to attend after school practical skills and study support sessions on a Tuesday and Thursday until 4pm in Room 207.
Trinity Academy also participates in the BBC Young Reporter scheme (formerly School Report) with various activities taking place throughout the year.
SMSC and British Values
Close study of the contexts of production and how that may have influenced production in a positive or negative way for example, the equal rights movement.
The power of the media and the right to freedom of speech.
The exploration of audience responses and how a text may impact audience members in different ways based on their individual beliefs, feelings and values.
Year 12
Units Taught:
- Music Video
- Advertising and Marketing
- Gaming Industry
- Radio
- Magazines
- Practical Production
Main Skills Developed
Detailed analysis of a variety of media texts using the Theoretical Framework as a basis. Students will explore a range of key media theories relating to: media audiences, media industries, narrative, representations and media language and will learn to apply these to the focus texts. The constructional elements of different formats will be considered as well as the contexts in which each text was produced. By analysing the structure and content, students will use this knowledge to produce their own series of media texts using a set brief and following professional standards and procedures to create an original and authentic looking product.
How can parents help support learning?
Encourage students to engage with the media on a wider scale than perhaps they normally would by exploring different types of film and television programme, reading newspapers and magazines or comparing official websites to fan made sites.
Testing students on the contents of the Theoretical Framework and key contextual facts about each of the focus texts would be highly beneficial in terms of revision and will reinforce the key aspects of the course which need to be understood in order to apply them.
Useful Websites
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02zhq5l
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
Year 12 students are welcome to attend after school practical skills and study support sessions on a Tuesday and Thursday until 4pm in Room 207.
Trinity Academy also participates in the BBC Young Reporter scheme (formerly School Report) with various activities taking place throughout the year which sixth form students are encouraged to lead on and support younger students.
SMSC and British Values
Use of a wide range of media texts from different cultures, backgrounds and historical eras.
Exploration of audience responses and how a text may impact audience members in different ways based on their individual beliefs, feelings and values.
Use of a range of texts which explore the right to liberty and freedom of speech and what that means in reality.
Close study of the contexts of production and how that may have influenced production in a positive or negative way for example, the equal rights movement.
Specific texts relating to key cultural influences and topics. (I Daniel Blake: British politics, Straight Black Panther: BLM and racial prejudices, Vogue(1960’s): Women’s rights and equality, Gal Dem: Feminism and race issues, The Big Issue: stereotypes of homelessness, The Bridge: Nordic cultural values, Life on Mars: 1970’s British societal values etc.)
Year 13
Units Taught:
- Global Crime Drama
- Practical Production
- Film Industry
- Online Media
- Advertising and Marketing
- Revision Topics
Main Skills Developed
Detailed analysis of a variety of media texts using the Theoretical Framework as a basis. Students will explore a range of key media theories relating to: media audiences, media industries, narrative, representations and media language, applying these to the focus texts. The constructional elements of different formats will be considered as well as the contexts in which each text was produced. By analysing the structure and content, students will use this knowledge to produce their own series of media texts using a set brief and following professional standards and procedures to create an original and authentic looking product.
In preparation for the external examination, students will learn revision skills and essay writing techniques to equip them for the specific requirements of the course.
How can parents help support learning?
Encourage students to engage with the media on a wider scale than perhaps they normally would by exploring different types of film and television programme, reading newspapers and magazines or comparing official websites to fan made sites.
Testing students on the contents of the Theoretical Framework and key contextual facts about each of the focus texts would be highly beneficial in terms of revision and will reinforce the key aspects of the course which need to be understood in order to apply them.
Useful Websites
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
Year 13 students are welcome to attend after school practical skills and study support sessions on a Tuesday and Thursday until 4pm in Room 207.
Trinity Academy also participates in the BBC Young Reporter scheme (formerly School Report) with various activities taking place throughout the year which sixth form students are encouraged to lead on and support younger students.
SMSC and British Values
Use of a wide range of media texts from different cultures, backgrounds and historical eras.
Exploration of audience responses and how a text may impact audience members in different ways based on their individual beliefs, feelings and values.
Use of a range of texts which explore the right to liberty and freedom of speech and what that means in reality.
Close study of the contexts of production and how that may have influenced production in a positive or negative way for example, the equal rights movement.