10C and 10 D FILMING AND EDITING

In class, we watch the iMovie tutorial and edit our footage.

PREP: write a post on your blog entitled PRACTICAL LESSONS. In the post, explain what you had to do for your filming practical and what challenges there were. Use film language terms, like tracking shot, two-shot, shot reverse shot, close-up, tripod, focus, plot, dialogue, soundtrack.  

When you are next in class, you can upload a still from your work , a photo of you editing or  screenshot of the iMovie in progress.

10 D PRACTICAL LESSON

Today we learn how to use the Canon cameras before going out filming.
We film a simple sequence that we will edit in iMovie.
 
PREP: watch an iMovie tutorial (open here).

10 C PRACTICAL LESSON

Today we learn how to use the Canon cameras before going out filming.
We film a simple sequence that we will edit in iMovie.
We watch an iMovie tutorial (open here).

10 D CONTRASTS BETWEEN THE AVENGERS AND CUFFS

We can compare the differences between the two texts: THE AVENGERS and CUFFS
PREP Continue with our table. 

Aim to complete prep the night set, please, so that I can check /mark it before our next lesson. If you wait until just before the lesson, I will have checked and made a 'late' mark in my mark book.

10C THE AVENGERS

01 Television
Our specification asks us to learn about television, its institutions and audiences through the comparison of two case studies (see below).

Today we learn about our second case study, a 'historical' television drama programme that we compare with Cuffs. We are introduced to it in the documentary programme (open link on left).
PREP: Watch 20 minutes of the programme (from the start) that I introduced to you in class. 
Make bullet points in a blog post on the social, cultural and historical context..
Call your blog post

The Avengers - Must See TV

LATE PREP WARNING: Some of you have not uploaded your recent preps onto your blogs.

You should have posts on BBC1 scheduling and Cuffs.

 

10D THE AVENGERS

01 Television
Our specification asks us to learn about television, its institutions and audiences through the comparison of two case studies (see below).

Today we learn about our second case study, a 'historical' television drama programme that we compare with Cuffs. We are introduced to it in the documentary programme (open link on left).
PREP: Watch 20 minutes of the programme (from the start) that I introduced to you in class. 
Make bullet points in a blog post on the social, cultural and historical context..
Call your blog post

The Avengers - Must See TV

10 C MAKING A BLOG

Today everyone in the class makes their individual blog using Blogger. Developing transferable skills are one of the advantages of the media studies course.
You customize your blog:

• layout and theme
• widths of main spread and sidebar
• background image
• blog title image
• gadgets such as search engine
• class list

PREP:
Make your first blog post. Go to 

• new post (you will find this at the top right of your blog)
• put the title of post in capital letters: CUFFS
• contents of post: answer the questions below, using a new paragraph for each question. and press 'publish'. Write in full sentences.

CUFFS.

• What is the function of an opening sequence for a TV programme? 
• How did this opening sequence appeal to its audience?
• What aspects of the title sequence tell a story about Brighton's diversity?
• In the programme, how did spread of different characters engage the different strands of the mainstream audience?
• Cuffs is before the watershed. How is this reflected in the handling of themes?
  

10D CUFFS

Starter activity while I am registering you:

• Watch the title sequence to Sherlock on The Art of The Title 
• Analyse the film language 
• What is the function of an title sequence for a film?
• How does it signal its genre and its Victorian period?

First we customize our blogs:

• alter the widths of the main blog and sidebar
• find out how to add a background image
• Find out how to add a title image

Next, we move on to Cuffs:

• What is the function of an opening sequence for a TV programme? 
• How did this opening sequence appeal to its audience?
• What aspects of the title sequence tell a story about Brighton's diversity?
• In the programme, how did spread of different characters engage the different strands of the mainstream audience?
• Cuffs is before the watershed. How is this reflected in the handling of themes?

PREP Friday night: research Cuffs online. You may want to watch a bit more of the episode, too. Aim to answer the bullet points above.

BBC1 TELEVISION SCHEDULING

PREP Find and watch our text:

Cuffs, Series one, episode one             
BBC1 25 October 2015 8 p.m     

CLASSWORK
Starting on Sunday 10 September, look at BBC1 scheduling (open the link) through the week. 
Make a blog post entitled TELEVISION SCHEDULING and write down / screenshot what crime / police /detective programmes are offered each night of the week. Note down the time of the broadcast.

For example:
BBC1 Sunday 10 September 9 p.m. Strike

You may have to click on the programme link to check its genre. You are looking only for
crime / police /detective programme. 

Does long form narrative  seem to be a popular form? 

BBC: MISSION AND VALUES
We look at the BBC's mission statements and Charter.

INTRODUCTION TO J200

 01 TELEVISION
What kind of television do you watch? Does your viewing include the crime, police and spy genre? It is helpful to have a broad overview of what audiences are offered.
On our course, we have a pair of case studies that we have to know and compare, one contemporary and one historical: Cuffs and The Avengers.

Cuffs, Series one, episode one              The Avengers 'The Town of No Return'
BBC1 25 October 2015 8 p.m                Series four, episode one
                                                               ITV 2 October 1965

We will learn about the dominance of the police drama genre, the importance of the serial narrative form, the role of BBC1, how representations reflect context and how audiences are attracted.

Do you notice what channels broadcast the programmes that you watch? Each channel has its own brand identity and ethos, its own audience and its own way of attracting audiences.

To start us off, let's look at the first five minutes of the opening sequence of the mainstream BBC 1 detective drama, currently broadcast on Sunday evenings at 9 p.m., so after the watershed. It is based on the novels written by J.K.Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The first episode premiered on 10 August 2017 at the British Film Institute and on 27 August 2017 on BBC television.

• Television crime drama Strike The Cuckoo's Calling Episode 1

• film language: how meaning is created through camerawork, editing, mise-en-scene and sound
• we look at how the detective is represented through film language and we consider what makes this programme exciting and watchable. Developing these skills in today's lesson will help you understand how audiences are hooked by long form narrative (this is a three-part narrative and is set to be a popular Sunday night staple for BBC). It will help you see that television drama reflects society (a particular social period) such as, in this episode, the contrasts between the glamorous life of the fashion model Lula's world and the drab, hand-to-mouth situation of the protagonist, Cormoran Strike.

In today's lesson, you also create your individual blog.

PREP: starting your ScoopIt! 
Look at the site and sign up You are making a page called TV CRIME DRAMA where you will 'scoop' (collect / collate) websites that give you information on television crime drama. 

I have created a similar ScoopIt as a model for you.

Here are some of the programmes that you might search for and 'scoop':

• traditional English crime drama like Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Jonathan Creek, Death In Paradise
• US crime drama like CSI, NCIS
• police crime drama like Cuffs, Lewis
• Scandi crime drama like Wallender
• private investigators, like Strike
• historical texts, like The Avengers

Notice which channel broadcasts them, as you go.
You may know quite a bit about the codes and conventions of TV crime drama already. 
Check what you know against this useful resource here.

WELCOME TO GCSE MEDIA STUDIES OCR J200

Welcome to the new course OCR J200 and the Media Studio.
We have two GCSE groups:

• prep for 10 C on Tuesday and Thursday
• prep for 10 D on  Wednesday and Friday
• clinic Thursday lunch time 1.40 (let me know if you are coming)
• media club Wednesday lunch time 1.40 (drop in: I will be there)

Congratulations to the class of 2017 on achieving 100% A* to A grades, with three A*s and three As!