Studying media is about watching, reading, discussing and evaluating media texts such as films, television and radio programmes, newspapers and magazines, and advertisements.

An important aspect of Media Studies is evaluating (this is called ‘reading’) a media text to find out what it is trying to say to the audience, and how that message is being communicated. The first AS module is usually known as ‘Reading the media’.

In the course...

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We hope that readers of this site will become writers too; we would like to invite you to participate in a number of ways.

To kick start the manifesto we asked a few media educators to provide us with their view on the purpose of media education (media studies/practice/production and media literacy). This initial set of contributions is only a starting point and is not supposed...

Click on the link below to download a frame for analysing the opening of the film ‘Children of Men’.

Film-Opening-Children-Of-Men.doc

‘It’s just an idea for group work deconstructing an interesting text (especially because, unusually, this one starts in the middle of the disequilibrium, rather than establishing an equilibrium first of all, so is good for narrative theory.  Also, our “hero” is rather unheroic (he doesn’t return to the...

Kid’s Today! Skins: The Wild Bunch

To the horror of parents and the delight of just about everyone else, the TV drama Skins blew the lid off what untamed teenagers get up to when let off the leash. With the second series due, Cassandra Jardine went behind the scenes to meet the show’s surprisingly sensible cast and its frighteningly young writers. If you don’t want to know the score, look away now… (Jardine, 2008)

This standfirst (an...

Trailer: BBC Extended

On 10 April 2007 Sam Tyler, the protagonist of Life on Mars (Kudos, 2006-07), committed suicide (or returned to 1973 depending on your viewpoint) in front of 7.7m viewers, a record for the serial in its final episode.

Although the first series of the classic police drama Z Cars (1962-78) reached nearly double that when it appeared, the 7.7m is a very respectable figure in the multi-channel environment of contemporary...

One of the first lessons media students get to attend is ‘What are the key concepts?’. Then the rest of the students’ Media Studies life is spent applying them to media texts, issues and debates. Here we investigate what they can they tell us about Heroes (series 1, 2006-07).

Most media texts are commodities; that is they are produced to make money. This is probably most evident in American television where shows exist only if they get...

Source: http://www.manifestoformediaeducation.co.uk/

Get Involved

We hope that readers of this site will become writers too; we would like to invite you to participate in a number of ways.

To kick start the manifesto we asked a few media educators to provide us with their view on the purpose of media education (media studies/practice/production and media literacy). This initial set of contributions is only...

Click on the link below to download a frame for analysing the opening of the film ‘Children of Men’.

Film-Opening-Children-Of-Men.doc

‘It’s just an idea for group work deconstructing an interesting text (especially because, unusually, this one starts in the middle of the disequilibrium, rather than establishing an equilibrium first of all, so is good for narrative theory.  Also, our “hero” is rather...

Kid’s Today! Skins: The Wild Bunch

To the horror of parents and the delight of just about everyone else, the TV drama Skins blew the lid off what untamed teenagers get up to when let off the leash. With the second series due, Cassandra Jardine went behind the scenes to meet the show’s surprisingly sensible cast and its frighteningly young writers. If you don’t want to know the score, look away now… (...