‘This is undoubtedly the most professional media set-up we have ever seen. Anywhere. Squillions of pounds and a wealth of experience on the teaching side. This is professional stuff. The media/theatre complex is huge; think masses of green rooms, mixing studios, dance studios, recording studios, video studios’ The Good School Guide.
In a world awash with media products and messages it is increasingly important for us to understand and challenge the way in which the media impact on us. With state-of-the-art technology and high levels of expertise and instruction, Hurtwood provides a media education that is dynamic, provocative and rewarding and unparalleled at this level. It gives students the freedom to be creative and the technical and intellectual tools to achieve at the highest level.
Students learn to write, direct, shoot, mix and edit films, music videos, advertisements and documentaries using digital cameras and digital editing suites; they produce radio shows in the school radio station; they learn print and journalistic skills, layout and design, graphics, photography and editorial management and, in the ‘new media’ they produce web work to a professional level using industry-standard software.