GCSE Digital Media and Film - Teaching from 2026

The GCSE Digital Media and Film qualification will support the Curriculum for Wales by:

• Supporting the statements of what matters by giving learners the opportunity to:
  • engage with genres, techniques, tools, materials and practices that enables them to become curious and creative individuals
  • develop an understanding of how the expressive arts communicate through visual, physical, verbal, musical and technological means
  • develop their imagination and draw upon their own experiences, skills and talents to become creative artists themselves
  • explore work from diverse cultures and societies and learn about these influences, histories and impact
  • consider creative work in a range of digital media, forms, genres and styles
  • learn the important skills of refinement and analysis
  • reflect on the effectiveness of their own work and that of others, including the work of diverse artists from Wales and beyond
  • be innovative and bold, and to create individual work
  • communicate through a variety of digital media forms.
• Supporting the principles of progression by encouraging learners to:
  
  • explore, experience, interpret, create and respond to increasingly complex meaning
  • develop an increased sophistication of conceptual learning
  • develop a more sophisticated use of relevant skills and the ability to transfer existing skills and knowledge into new context.
• Supporting the subject specific considerations for Digital Media and Film by giving learners the opportunity to consider: 
• Aspects of pre-production, production and post-production, including editing, cinematography; sound, production design (including mise-en-scène), narrative, style, genre. 
• Products and forms: film, television, audio (podcasting and digital radio), video games, websites. 
• Distribution and exhibition: online platforms (including social media and streaming sites), cinema, digital television, video gaming platforms. 
• Producers and audiences, including users, ‘prosumers’, spectators, content creators. 
• Messages, ethics and issues: representations of people, identities, places and society, digital divides, social media issues (including privacy, bias and misinformation).