The Access 3 qualification in Media Studies offers learners the opportunity to identify the various elements that make up media texts, thus opening them to analysis. The media texts may be newspapers or magazines, television or radio programmes, cinema films, advertisements, music videos or websites.
Learners come to see all media texts as constructs, each made from the point of view of a producer targeting a particular audience. The course also develops planning and production skills using media technology. Learners reflect on their production experience and evaluate their own and the group’s strengths and weaknesses during the production process.
The Access 3 Media Studies Course is at SCQF level 3.
Access 3 level has no external exam. Students work through modules in class time, with some additional homework. The course is pass/fail depending on the work which students produce.
The three units are –
analysis:fiction;
analysis:non-fiction and
production.
