Introduction
HOD: Mrs D. Sheridan BA Hons, PGCE
Staff members: Mr C.Carney BA Hons, PGCE, Mrs S.Bamford
Drama is taught at KS3 and provides a good platform for further study. Pupils can access and develop many of the media skills they would require for further study as Media Studies is taught as a discreet area of the English curriculum in KS3.
AQA Media Studies and AQA Drama are taught to GCSE and we hope to offer Moving Image Arts as an additional GCSE in the near future.
Moving Image Arts is available in the College as AS and A2 (CCEA). We access AS and A2 Drama through the Bangor Learning Partnership programme.
Subject Information
Drama
In Drama we visit the Grand Opera House to see plays and productions by the Lyric Theatre annually for GCSE drama. We are one of 10 schools taking part in a project with the Lyric and their production of Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’. We create little productions in school e.g, a play will be put on in the drama department for Open Night called ‘The Godmother’. The Drama department is working on contributing greatly to the College’s whole school musical in 2010.
Moving Image Arts
In Moving Image Arts pupils are giving the opportunity to enter film making competitions and festivals. It can be said that no art or communication form is as influential, powerful or prolific in the modern era as the art of Moving Images. From film and television programming to advertising and web streaming, it’s a medium that resonates with people because its combination of all other art forms (performance, visual, physical, musical, lyrical, textual) most closely approximates the limitless creativity of our own dreams.
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."
Ingmar Bergman, Director
The rapid growth of digital media technologies has made the creative industries increasingly accessible and attractive to young people. CCEA’s MIA qualification gives candidates their first taste of this exciting and enterprising field while also embedding skills that will benefit them in a host of additional pursuits.
The moving image is a key driver of the creative industries. The rapid growth of digital media technologies has made the creative industries increasingly accessible and attractive to young people. The impact of these developments is being felt within the classroom, where students are seeking opportunities to learn technical skills and express themselves creatively.
Our GCE Moving Image Arts qualification is designed to help students develop their creative and critical abilities through hands-on learning in the craft of moving image arts
