Btec Creative Media
Investigate | Analyse | Create
FOUNDATION COURSE
Analysing Media Products
Defying Convention
Discover how and why media products are made the way they are.
Get Creative
Introducing Adobe
Get familiar with the Adobe CC Suite to create your own media products
COMPONENT 1
Investigating Media Products
Component 1A
Looking at a range of past and present media products, such as podcasts, magazines and mobile
apps, you will examine how media products engage audiences for a given purpose.
Creating Meaning and Engaging Audiences
Component 1B
You will select media products from one of the three sectors: audio/moving image,
publishing and interactive, and explore how genre, narrative and representation are combined
to engage their audience
COMPONENT 2
Develop Media Production Skills and Techniques
Component 2A
You will participate in workshops and classes to develop media production skills and
techniques appropriate to one, or all, of the following media sectors: audio/moving image,
publishing and interactive media.
Apply Media Production Skills and Techniques
Component 2B
You will follow the media practices of: pre-production, production and post production to re-imagine a media product for a teenage audience.
Review Skills and Practices
Component 2C
You must track their progress during this component, reflecting on their development of
skills and techniques in workshops through to the application of pre-production, production and
post-production processes and practices.
COMPONENT 3
Controlled Assessment
Component 3
You will apply and develop their planning and production skills and techniques to create a
media product in response to a client brief.