We've put together a whole range of activities for students thinking of studying A Level Media:
Preparation for A Level Media
If you're thinking of studying A Level Media Studies, there are a large variety of activities you can do over the next few months to help prepare for post-16 study.
Just like GCSE Media, our A Level Media course is blog-based. You will complete the majority of the work on your A Level Media blogs and all our tasks and notes are available on our main blog hub Media Macguffin. The first thing you can do is take a look at the A Level Media blogs to get an idea of the work we do:
> Year 12 A Level Media blog
> Year 13 A Level Media blog
The best A Level Media students have a good understanding of the world around us and the wider media landscape. The way to develop this understanding is simply engaging with the media on a daily basis. The following activities will really help with this:
Read the news every day - the BBC website is always a good, free starting point. You should also visit the Guardian website regularly and also consider news websites with different or neutral political perspectives such as MailOnline or the i Newspaper website.
Watch critically acclaimed films and TV series - both are media topics that are covered in A Level Media.
Read through copies of Media Magazine - a dedicated magazine for A Level Media students that we have a subscription to at Greenford. You can find our Media Magazine archive here.
Preparation activities
We are very lucky that the brilliant people at Media Magazine have created a whole booklet of articles tasks designed to prepare students for A Level Media. You can find the Media Magazine A Level preparation activity booklet here.
Work through these tasks by reading the article and then answering the questions. It's up to you how you do this - you may want to simply make brief notes or bullet points or type up well-deveoped answers and email them to us to start a discussion. It's completely up to you!
We particularly recommend the following activities as a useful starting point:
- Task 5 - Long Form TV Drama: Genre, Character and Narrative
- Task 8 - Magazines: Recreating Men’s Health for a Non-binary Audience
If you haven't studied GCSE Media
Don't worry if you haven't studied GCSE Media - we will teach you everything you need to know over the two-year A Level Media course.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding A Level Media or these preparation tasks you can email the Head of Media Mr Halsey using your school email.
A Level Media is also taught by Mr Pall and Mr Bush and you are welcome to email them with any questions too.
We look forward to working with you in Media next year!
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