Yr 10 CUFFS

Starter activity: analyse the film language of Imagine Dragons Thunder.
Classwork: CUFFS from where we left off yesterday to the start of the raid on Benson's house.
Focus: explain how social and cultural contexts influence the messages and values in television programmes.

• gender: the inclusion of strong women
• changing attitudes to ethnicity
• changing attitudes to sexuality
• changing attitudes to masculinity

Yr 11D CUFFS

You will have your own copy of the CUFFS questions and answers from. the second OCR practice paper 01 Television & Promoting Media. We must expect the unexpected in the exam (hence our recent focus on the green guides) but it is also useful to practise answering actual set questions.
In today's lesson, we look at the media language in CUFFS.
PREP Copy /paste this question into your prep post then answer it. Your extract starts at the raid outside Benson's house and finishes outside in the yard when Jake has saved Ryan's life. The image below shows the start point on ClickView.

Question 1 (5 marks):  Analyse how mise-en-scene is used in the extract to create meaning. Refer to at least two examples from the extract in your answer.
(Hint: mise-en-scene can include setting, vehicles, animals, casting, clothes & props, lighting. Mise-en-scene refers to everything that is on set.)

Yr 10 FILM LANGUAGE

Media language of television is tested in 01 TELEVISION & PROMOTING MEDIA.
You will view an extract from either Cuffs or The Avengers and be asked a 5 mark question.
It could be on sound, mise-en-scene, camerawork or editing. Below is the first practice paper's question on sound which we will cover in class. 
Use TEA
Identify the terminology
Give the example
Analysis of how meaning is made

For instance: The arrest of the self-important, aggressive bohemian woman includes diegetic sound in the form of dialogue terminology. She haughtily talks about her powerful lawyer mother in an attempt to intimidate the arresting officer example. This constructs her in a negative way as an unlikeable character who has abused justice and thinks that she is above the law.Analysis

A second example of dialogue is also very pointed terminology: when PC Ryan retorts that the officers at the Station do not care who people's parents are, he is making a point to both the woman and to PC Jake example. He is putting down Jake whose father, Superintendent  Vickers, pulled rank to get Jake his promotion. The meaning is not lost on Jake's colleagues who smirk at his humiliation while Jake looks embarrassed. The audience might have sympathy for Jake in this public but covert put down, or they may feel that he deserves it. Analysis

Second example. We also worked through the example in which Jo is called in by Superintendent  Vickers. We analyse both the dialogue and also how it is said, such as her hesitation and struggling to find the right words, how her body language is at odds with her actual words.

PREP Copy /paste this question into your prep post then answer it. Your extract starts at the raid outside Benson's house and finishes outside in the yard when Jake has saved Ryan's life. The image below shows the start point on ClickView.

Question 1 (5 marks):  Analyse how mise-en-scene is used in the extract to create meaning. Refer to at least two examples from the extract in your answer.
(Hint: mise-en-scene can include setting, vehicles, animals, casting, clothes & props, lighting. Mise-en-scene refers to everything that is on set.)

Yr 10 NEWS

To day we look at several individual print editions of The Observer /Guardian.
We then turn to the OCR green guide on the news industry. You must make yourself familiar with all its content as any of it may be tested in the 02 Music and News exam.
Today in class we cover pages 3, 4, 5 and test each other.
PREP Pages 5-9 Starting at page 5 'Historical print newspapers and social, cultural, political and historical contexts', read and learn the ideas in the guide up to the end on page 9. Prepare to be tested.

LOOK FOR THE WORDS 'SPONSORED CONTENT'

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Yr 11C: NEWS

PREP pages 5-9 is based on continuing today's revision: study pages 5-9 of the OCR green guide News (print and online): Industry and Audience.
Starting at page 5 'Historical print newspapers and social, cultural, political and historical contexts', read and learn the ideas in the guide up to the end on page 9. Prepare to be tested.

CLASSWORK In class today, we look at several individual print editions of The Observer /Guardian.
We then turn to the OCR green guide on the news industry. You must make yourself familiar with all its contents as any of it may be tested in the 02 Music and News exam.
Today in class we cover pages 3, 4, 5 and test each other.

LOOK FOR THE WORDS 'SPONSORED CONTENT'

POP-UPS INVITE SUPPORT BY DONATION / SUBSCRIPTION
FOR A FUNDING MODEL THAT PROTECTS INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FOR ALL

Yr 10: DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKING

Understanding documentary film making practice.
Our brief for 2020 is outlined in this link.
PREP Explore documentary style: notice the codes and conventions used in any of these in the Scoop.it prepared for you. 

To access my Scoop.it!, open this link.

Yr 11D THE OBSERVER

Screenings of creative work .
Feedback on your 03 Creating Media.

PREP Revise The Observer  by opening this link and working through the actual front cover, the notes and the 'green booklet' guidance.

Yr 11 CLASSWORK FRIDAY 15 MARCH

Rahim: please transfer your Production to the memory stick again and test it for sound on a different Mac in the classroom.
Sam: please complete the edit of the bit on the front cover that you spotted.
Daisy: please give me your final piece in a format that can be opened by the Moderator
Harrison: please load your Production to the memory stick again and test it for sound on a different Mac in the classroom.
Everyone: please email me your Statement of Intent with those words in the header. As far as I know, these are the only ones that I have received so far, and three are not updated ones (see the dates):

Once these tasks are complete, please look at yesterday's Year 10 post on The Observer and revise this front cover as well as the 'green guide' info below it.

PREP I have emailed the whole green guide to you entitled News (print and online) Industry and audience

Please study it ready for a test next lesson.

Yr 10 MAKING A TRAILER

BAREBONES TRAILER
We are filming today as planned. UPDATE: the lesson was changed because of different issues beyond our control. Next lesson we move on to a new topic: making documentary films.
You will aim to have a great many very short clips.
Some ECUs (extreme close-ups), some CUs, some mid shots, some action shots, probably an establishing shot. 
A trailer (or teaser trailer) jumps rapidly through a narrative arc, meaning that the audience does not have to understand how everything connects at this stage.

PREP You have the next 2 prep times to complete this prep BUT it will mean coming into the media studio at lunch times to suit you.
Finish the last piece of editing!
You can work with your friends if you wish or do your own cut.

The film opening production that you did last week should have:

• the panning over the selected story table
• the film title
• a voice over (unless you really don't want one for artistic reasons)
• credits (name of actors, director - but don't write 'starring', just the name in capital letters)
• the live action sequence at the end after the title
• music soundtrack
• perhaps spot sounds to enhance the narrative
• finally, post the finished film opening on your blog!

Yr 10: THE OBSERVER OCT.1968

The Observer delivers hard news to its readers as well as features, information, advertisements, and stories about sporting and cultural events.

The Observer reader is interested in both home and foreign news, in particular, news stories about Europe and the US (the 'special relationship').
The front cover of The Observer for 20 October 1968 features:

• Leader is home news about the engineering union strike
• Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis (one of only 2 items featuring women). "Greek shipping magnates aren't the most lovable breed of business men. The rich ones are so disgustingly rich and their buccaneering approach to tax and exchange control is peculiarly visible."
• The hope of ceasefire in the Vietnam War (US news again)
• Anti-Vietnam march in London: police want their policy of appeasement known (not confrontation)
• The marriage of Viscount Hamsworth's son to a Rhodesian woman (sole representation of a woman of colour) "We would have no race troubles if we had more of this integration'.
• Telecast from astronauts to Houston, Texas
• Clay pigeon shooting Gold Medal at Mexico Olympics.

Right side bar

• EGO supplement aimed at women. "New pullout combining HERS and BRIEFING: Jane's economy kick.
• Advertisement features 'stockings, gloves, tights' (female needs)

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Yr 11 D and C: STATEMENT OF INTENT

We study the OCR guidance in Activity 11-STEREOTYPING. We practise writing about stereotypes in CUFFS and AVENGERS, following the examples on the sheet.

Next, we look again at our Statement of Intent. We have plenty of time to practice writing it using the guidance in Activity 4 - WRITING THE STATEMENT OF INTENT

PREP Complete your best version of your statement of intent, using the tips on the sheet.
Email it to me with the title 'statement of intent' in the email header so I can easily select it.

Yr 11D: 02 MUSIC & NEWS

We deconstruct a variety of music magazines covers chosen by each individual in the class.

Then we analyse the front cover of The Observer October 1966 in order to answer the exam question about historical and social contexts.

Q.10:  Explain how historical contexts influence the representations in newspapers from the 1960s. Refer to stories from the front pages of the set newspapers you have studied to support your answer.

PREP is to look closely at this front cover again, to revise its content ready for the inevitable exam question on one / all of The Observer 1960's covers. We looked at just this one but the mark scheme that is attached refers to a selection of items from ALL the front pages.

Yr 10: MAKING A TRAILER

Next week, we are all making a trailer.
PREP Open the Film Education Teaching Trailers resource HERE
Have a go at making a trailer.
Think about the order of each frame. 
Add intertitles in the 'text' frames.
You may find the help sheet below useful.
In the lesson next week, we will look at Teaching Trailers examples of trailers.

01 TELEVISION & PROMOTING MEDIA

Yr 11 PREP Read the exam question as you watch THE AVENGERS on Clickview

THURSDAY PERIOD 3 YEAR 10

PERIOD 2 YEAR 11

Watch CUFFS on Clickview using headphones.(spares on my desk).

Use the printed OCR exam answer sheets (on my desk) and the lined paper to make notes.

Notes on:  evidence of social and cultural contents (equality between genders, evidence of multiculturalism, gay identities, evidence of racism, drug use, knife crime etc)

Police seen in a constructive light as rounded characters with private lives, families, partners, struggles, dogs, children; as sympathetic / caring towards public

Notes on how different police officers behave and interact: know all their names and the narrative threads they're involved in.

THURSDAY PERIOD 2 YEAR 11

PERIOD 2 YEAR 11

Continue watching CUFFS on Clickview using headphones.(spares on my desk).

Use the printed OCR exam answer sheets (given to you yesterday – Immy, as you were absent, yours is on my desk) and the lined paper to continue making notes.

Notes on:  evidence of social and cultural contents (equality between genders, evidence of multiculturalism, gay identities, evidence of racism, drug use, knife crime etc)

Police seen in a constructive light as rounded characters with private lives, families, partners, struggles, dogs, children; as sympathetic / caring towards public

Notes on how different police officers behave and interact: know all their names and the narrative threads they're involved in.

Yr 10 SCRIPTWRITING

You have shot and edited your film opening. 
You have added the opening credits and the film title in capital letters.
You have added your soundtrack (non-diegetic music).
On Friday, you will film the live action sequence that follows on from the title. If your film requires special clothes, bring them in, or use the hats, shawls, kimono, greatcoat etc that is in the media room.

PREP Write the voice-over: I gave you an example in class.

01 TELEVISION & PROMOTING MEDIA

In class, we continue to revise CUFFS.
PREP Read the exam question and answer on WARNER below ready for a test next week.

02: MUSIC & NEWS: OBSERVER

PREP Read and understand. No writing required. 
You can post this on your blog ready for a 'timed test'.
Q. 9 asks us to bring together all that we know about The Observer. We can use all three editions and others too in this 15 mark question.