Yr 11 03 CREATING MEDIA

PREP Start planning on your blog what your news website will feature:

• start with the ideas that you had for your documentary. What 45 seconds of filming would you pick to feature as a news story? 
• what would the 200 words of 'copy' be about the video report? Or would your 'copy' be about a second news item?
• research what 10-13 year olds might be concerned about: testing? social media? knife crime? local amenities? a film event?

Here is the tutorial that we watched in class.

Yr 10 MUSIC VIDEO

We have started studying our two set texts in class.
Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag

Avril Lavigne Sk8ter Boi

This is where you can see what we study in music videos on our blog.

PREP Watch the two videos again, looking in particular at differences in representation, camerawork and editing.
Your prep is to identify how the two videos differ in their representation, camerawork and editing. Pick only one example of each.

Yr 10 MUSIC MAGAZINES

PREP Start to familiarise yourself with music genres that you don't know, by first picking a music magazine, either popular or classical music.

Explore the genre (say, Reggae, punk, rap, rock, prog rock, pop, urban, heavy metal, R&B, soul, country & western, orchestral, ...)

Post all of this writing as well as your chosen magazine cover on your blog with your comments underneath.

THE OBSERVER 30 OCTOBER 1966

PREP Test on Friday 29 November on newspaper terms which you can find here on the blog and also here on The Guardian / Observer. NB 'skybox' is another name for 'skyline'.

CLASSWORK : Going over aspects of Paper 1.

1. Watch the clip from The Crown that covers the Aberfan disaster (Inpoint 5.58).

2. Jane Asher : My face and I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fadZ3SUBD6A
In what way does this title reflect how women tended to be represented in 1960s media?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fadZ3SUBD6A : 

3. George Blake: The Yard suspects Blake used two-way radio
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/dec/08/cell-mates-a-good-traitor-the-extraordinary-life-of-george-blake-the-spy-who-went-into-the-cold

MUSIC MAGAZINES: REPRESENTATION

PREP How does Country Music create representations? 
To answer, copy this magazine to your blog and add the bullet points underneath.

• What kind of music is the magazine about? What kind of cover style would you and country music fans expect? You could listen to their music as well as look them up.
• Identify the central splash and describe how they are presented (what they are wearing, how they are lit, the expressions on their faces, how these fit with the type of music)
• Comment on the use of typography in The Shires coverline.
• Looking at the cover as a whole, what can you say about the layout?

THE OBSERVER: GENRE CONVENTIONS

PREP In today's lesson we analysed the media language of a quality broadsheet newspaper.
Identify as many genre conventions of a quality broadsheet as you can from The Observer below. Copy /paste this cover onto your blog and write below it. You can find the terminology HERE that we learned. 

REPRESENTATION: CUFFS

PREP How does Cuffs represent changing attitudes towards masculinity and femininity? 
Pick two examples.

Read pages 37-39 for help.

BBC: INDUSTRY & AUDIENCE

Describe what is meant by Public Service Broadcasting (PSB). Use the BBC as an example in your answer.
Text book pages 18 - 21

PREP

HOW TO EMBED PINTEREST

1. Copy the url of your Pinterest board such as https://www.pinterest.com/jennymmann/music-magazines/
2. Open a new tab and find Pinterest Developer Widget Builder. Select BOARD.
Scroll down and copy the html and then open your blog and paste it in. Don't forget to include pinit.js once per page, right before the closing </BODY> tag.

For example:

CUFFS

In this question, you will be rewarded for drawing together elements from your full course of study, including different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts.

How far does Cuffs adapt genre conventions to fit its family audience at 8pm on BBC1?

In your answer you must:

• analyse the extract's use of genre conventions
• make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the extract adapts the conventions of police drama to fit its scheduling and audience.