This program also provides students with a basic understanding of the languages of film and media: Camera, Editing, Sound & Script. Education faculty as well as guest speakers provide a social, historical, cultural, and aesthetic context for the media content and facilitate post-screening discussion. After post-screening discussions, students break into groups to collaborate, write and present new content for the current media in discussion.

Mega MediaLab addresses ELA Inquiry-Based Literacy Standards and the SC Department of Education Media Arts standards, achieving the following goals:

• Students learn the basics of the language of film and media
• Foster critical viewing skills of a large cross-section of contemporary media
• Analyze, critique, and interpret ideas, issues and/or experiences presented in media texts and films alike
• Create media artwork that demonstrates an understanding and command of the principles of artistic design
• Foster public speaking and presentation skills
• Demonstrate the ability to write, revise, and edit media texts
• Identify and define the processes, techniques, and applications used in creating media work
• Create a knowledge of digital citizenship and a personal sense of responsibility in the media arts