YEAR 11 PREP WED 30 JANUARY: LEGO MOVIE AD BREAK

I am stage manager of the school production and will be in the rehearsal.

Individual work to make progress with your Production work, which is due in by the deadline of Friday 15 February.

Makt: Focus on your front cover design and I will see your progress on Thursday. Check the 'page' 03 MUSIC MAGAZINE at the top of the class blog. Remember: At least 6 cover lines on the front cover 

as well as cover price, bar code, edition number. 

Ben: you may do your photos of Rahim if you want, if you have remembered the guitar, then get on with your cover. See my reminders to Makt above about content.

Sam: I would spend time researching your double page design as well as composing the text etc for your cover. I would create a folder on the Mac desktop and have ready in it the text for your cover lines, cover price, bar code, edition number. 

Seb: I’d like you to work on your front cover. See notes to Makt and Ben.

S.E.B’s album is called MAELSTROM, by the way. It is now in the double page spread.

Nathan: edit the title of the track / performer as discussed last week. When complete, see below for Avengers exam work, which you must complete on your blog.

All other pupils: You should work on your soap opera editing. 

PREP FOR ALL If you are not able to work on this without me being there, please go to the Year 10 cover work for today and complete that on your blog. It is taken from the brand new exam question that OCR issued this week so it is really helpful for us to do this well.

Yr 10 AVENGERS: REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER

COVER WORK for WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY Period 1
PREP for Year 11
I am stage manager with the school play Dress Rehearsal this morning, so please do the following work on your blog. Complete for PREP.

Title of your classwork blog post is THE AVENGERS: REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER

First line of your blog post: HOW DOES THE AVENGERS CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER TO REACH A 1960's AUDIENCE?

In your answer, analyse how both Peel and Steed are presented, supporting your comments with examples of what they do and say, what they wear, and how they behave with each other. You can take examples from anywhere in the programme, which you may listen to on ClickView with headphones (if you have headphones). 

• Is Peel a strong female lead? Does she use her intelligence to solve the case? Does this challenge traditional stereotypes of men being in control and holding all the power?
• What evidence is there that Peel is adventurous, cool, unflappable, a skilled fencer, physically brave, well educated, financially independent?
• Does she answer Steed back and hold her own? Does he assume command? Is there a jokey, equal  quality to their relationship?
• Is Steed urbane, self-confident, 
• Do Peel's tight-fitting costumes sexualize her? Is this a common stereotypical treatment of women?
• Are they any occasions when Peel is seen to be 'rescued'? Is this a traditional stereotype?
• The programme was broadcast after the nine o'clock watershed. Has this allowed for more 'romantic' elements in the narrative?

MOJO Q.4 BOB MARLEY

I am posting the next 2 preps to help you plan.
FRIDAY 25 JANUARY PREP YEAR 11C Refer to Extract 1 in the insert. Analyse the representation of Jamaican Reggae music and

musicians such as Bob Marley in this MOJO front cover. (5 marks)

WEDNESDAY 29 JANUARY PREP YEAR 11C
I have emailed you with a new OCR folder. Tonight's prep is to download and organise into folders these new OCR Specimen Papers and Mark Schemes. 

I would like you to keep one set of these in the original folder (making it easy to distinguish the new from the old) and another set in with the 01 and 02 folders that you have already made. 

You will have time to look at the new questions, as well.

MOJO Q.4 JONI MITCHELL

PREP for both year 11 groups (TUESDAY 22 January and Wednesday 23 January) and for Year 10 WEDNESDAY 23 January.
MOJO Another quick and easy revision prep, worth 5 marks. Base your analysis on MOJO's March 2019 issue. The exam question may have the covermount (free CD). If it does, refer to it.

Tips:

THE OBSERVER Q.8 MEDIA LANGUAGE

PREP
To revise the 'media language' question, you focus on the layout. It is a quick and easy question, worth 5 marks and only 2 examples needed. Please copy the question onto your blog and write the 2 examples taken from the recent Observer online. The answers below will help you.
Exam q.8 (5 marks, write 1/2 a page; give 2 examples)

Read the green booklet that you received entitled News (print and online): industry and audience.  Work through this page, clicking on each link and studying the visuals, which are the exam case study. To understand The Observer, you will find page 9 of News (print and online): industry and audience helpful.

Yr 10: OBSERVER 6 NOVEMBER 1966

First, you are taken through tonight's PREP so that you understand what to do.

Second, we take 02 NEWS q.10 on one of the three historical Observer texts and practise identifying what we need to know for the exam question.

OBSERVER ONLINE: MESSAGES & VALUES Q.9

Study the online newspaper extract to revise exam Q. 9 (below).
To make this prep quick and easy, all you have to do is copy / paste the text below and identify all relevant articles or features that represent the newspaper's values:
1.  The major use of newspapers is to offer a sense of knowing
what is going on in the world.The Observer knows that its readers are serious and interested in international affairs. This is evident in hard news articles about.....
2. The Observer meets its audience's need for a range of cultural, sporting and artistic news. It provides these with...
3. The Observer does not shy away from 'difficult' issues that could make uncomfortable reading, such as...
4.  The Observer has sections which are designed to appeal to
different types of readers.The Observer reflects the diversity of its readership in articles on...
5.  Newspaper readership can still be used as a symbol of one’s

social identity. The term ‘Guardian reader’ connotes a certain

type of social attitude and The Observer  similarly reinforces

a set of social and political attitudes, and thus identity, in its

representations. For example, Observer  readers like to think

of themselves as open-minded and this is reflected in the

Observer’s practice of allowing both sides of an argument

equally to be put when the newspaper is clearly on one side

of this argument. There is an example of this in....

6.  The entertainment function of newspapers may take the

form of humour.  It may take the form of diversion into

a celebrity world of ‘glamour’. It may take the form of human

interest stories in which readers are invited to sympathise with

the subjects of the article. Newspapers further offer games,

puzzles, crosswords and the like. At the higher end, sections

such as the New Review in the Observer may offer the pleasure

of extremely well-written think pieces and literature reviews. An example of this is....

Yr 11 MUSIC VIDEO Q.2 MEDIA LANGUAGE COMPARISON

Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag and Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi
PREP: To revise for q.2 (4 marks), copy / paste each of the following descriptions into your blog post. Write either SB or TD at the start of each, to indicate either Avril or Wheatus. Some answers may refer to BOTH so put both initials.

This video is documentary style mostly hand-held camerawork, de-saturated colour and fast-paced editing.
This video has saturated colour, more controlled camerawork, slower-paced editing.
This video consists of mostly montage shots.
This video has more developed editing with cause and effect.
In this video, the singer values rebellion, which is seen in the narrative.
In this video, the singer values 'fitting in', conformity, albeit to an oppressive system, which is seen in the narrative.
This video is set in LA, a big city, with its connotations of street credibility.
The mise-en-scene of this video is American suburbia with its connotations of conformity. 
This video is intertextual in its narrative (=it makes references to high school drama).
In this video, the singer performs to camera.
In this video, real locations and 'everyday' costume for the performers connote a sense of naturalism.
In this video, there is a sense of linear narrative (a story is told, in the order it unfolds). 

SB: Sk8er Boi

TD: Teenage Dirtbag

Year 10: NEWS Q.9 VALUES & BELIEFS

We start by watching a video and television advertisement for the Guardian newspaper.
It is an award-winning advertisement that is an inspiring example of creative editing in its own right.  
You then read a selection of current copies of the Observer /Guardian to identify what distinguishes the 'quality' press.

• These broadsheets generally value hard news, such as political news. 
• They value an international outlook, covering foreign affairs.
• They tackle 'difficult' issues, even if they are uncomfortable.
• They serve a broad audience by including sport, culture, the arts, with many feature articles: its balance of features reflects that it values culture as well as politics and hard news
• Online versions offer interactivity, with podcasts, comments invited, readers' letters

For more info on news, look here.

For question 10, you will be rewarded for drawing together elements from your full course of study, including different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts. ‘The representations featured in the online Observer reflect its values and beliefs.’ 
Discuss how far you agree with this statement. In your answer, you must: 
· Analyse the representations featured in the extract with reference to the Observer’s values and beliefs 
· Make judgements and draw conclusions about how far you agree with the statement. [15 marks]
PREP Spend thirty minutes developing your music magazine cover. Each of you must consult the 'comments' box under your music magazine on your blog for guidance. The aim of your work is to create a convincing music magazine cover. The task is very important as it not only develops your Photoshop technical skills in preparation for your own 03 Creating Media brief, but it enables you to answer with confidence the exam questions on music magazine codes and conventions, questions 4 and 5. This link opens all the info that you need about these questions, together with sample papers and insert examples form MOJO and a comparison piece.

Year 11: NEWS Q.9 VALUES & BELIEFS

We start by watching a video and television advertisement for the Guardian newspaper.
It is an award-winning advertisement that is an inspiring example of creative editing in its own right.  
You then read a selection of current copies of the Observer /Guardian to identify what distinguishes the 'quality' press.

• These broadsheets generally value hard news, such as political news. 
• They value an international outlook, covering foreign affairs.
• They tackle 'difficult' issues, even if they are uncomfortable.
• They serve a broad audience by including sport, culture, the arts, with many feature articles: its balance of features reflects that it values culture as well as politics and hard news
• Online versions offer interactivity, with podcasts, comments invited, readers' letters

For question 10, you will be rewarded for drawing together elements from your full course of study, including different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts. ‘The representations featured in the online Observer reflect its values and beliefs.’ 
Discuss how far you agree with this statement. In your answer, you must: 
· Analyse the representations featured in the extract with reference to the Observer’s values and beliefs 
· Make judgements and draw conclusions about how far you agree with the statement. [15 marks]