News: Refer to your example of the Observer online. Analyse the use of media language to create meaning in the online Observer home page. Give two examples from Extract 3.

Using your deconstruction of the Online Observer, you need to answer the exam question.
Write the exam question as your title indoor books.

TV Drama: The Opening Title Sequences

Task: Watch the title sequence from The Avengers and answer the following questions in your book.

1. How does the music style suggest what genre the show is?
2. What does the typography of the graphics suggest about the show's era?
3. Explain how Patrick Macnee's character is represented via costume, props and facial expression.
4. How is the flower prop used to link the two characters together?
5. Explain how Diana Rigg's character is represented via costume, props and facial expression.
6. What does the term 'teleplay' mean or what is the modern terminology? Why do you think The Avengers is called this?
7. How is editing linked to the music?
8. How are the use of props and body language used to present the characters towards the end and what are the audience expectations of the show as a result?

Extension Task: Compare this opening sequence with the one below by picking out the similarities and differences and explaining what they suggest about how television technology has developed and how audience expectations have changed.

News: Deconstructing the Observer homepage

Using your news glossary, label all of the conventions you can find on the homepage. You can click here to access the online newspaper site for yourself in order to explore the conventions used.  You need to then answer the following questions in your book in full sentences.

1. What are the key advantages and disadvantages of publishing news in a digital format rather than a traditional print format?
2. How is the homepage branded so it is clearly produced by the Guardian's Sunday paper? What conventions are included?
3. How does the newspaper use colour to brand the site and to help readers navigate it easily?
4. How are hyperlinks useful for a reader and why do you think they appear at the top of the page?
5. How are the different sections of the news illustrated on the homepage? What conventions are used?
6. How important are the images on the website? How might they appeal to the reader?
7. How are readers encouraged to interact with the news stories and why do you think this might be important to the newspaper?
8. Why does the website feature such large advertising banners? How is the online version of this newspaper paid for by the reader?

Extension task: Write a comparison (similarities and differences) between the conventions of a print newspaper and an online newspaper, with reference to the Observer.

Tv Drama: The Avengers Research

Find out as much information as you can on the following:

• The company or companies that produced the show.
• The TV channel that it was broadcast on.
• The number of UK TV channels in 1965.
• The most popular TV programmes on UK TV in 1965. What type of programme was each one?
• The viewing figures for the show with reasons for the figure.
• The main political events in the UK and around the world in 1965.
• The main cultural events in 1965 - which bands and singers were popular and what films were in the top ten of the UK box office that year.
• Information on Patrick Macnee and Dianna Rigg as famous celebrities in the 1960s.
• Reasons for Diana Rigg's character Mrs Peel being so groundbreaking.
• Reasons for this sort of programme being so popular at the time. What other similar TV shows and films were produced around the same time.

Tv Drama: Cuffs - textual analysis

How have the technical elements been used to introduce setting and character in the TV Crime drama Cuffs?

Refer to your notes. Also, make sure you use the terminology we discussed in class last lesson.

Terminology you must include:

• continuity editing
• cross cutting
• shot reverse shot
• cut
• establishing shot
• close up 
• mid shot
• non-diegetic sound
• diegetic sound

News: The Observer: An Introduction to The Guardian's Sunday paper

For this lesson you are going to research The Observer newspaper in pairs. You are going to create a presentation based on the following questions. Credits are awarded for a combination of the quality of written analysis and the clarity and creativity of the presentation. Click on The Observer logo above to find the newspaper website.

1. Media Industry

• Who publishes the newspaper?
• How long has it been running?
• Who owns the newspaper?

2. Media Language

• What stylistic features does The Observer newspaper format have?
• Analyse the front page (deconstruct the conventions using the news glossary to help you label all of the elements). Explain in detail how The Observer uses these conventions to appeal to those readers.
• What is the newspaper's Target Audience and how can you tell?
• How does the layout of the newspaper work to appeal to consumers?
• What features of the front page would you consider the most important and why?

News: Press Regulation: Who reports on the reporters?

The owners of newspapers can influence the editorial stance of a newspaper. The motives and agenda of newspaper owners and editors, and how they try to influence our understanding of certain events, is important when analysing how newspapers tell stories. Newspapers will also attempt to influence how the public vote in elections, with certain newspapers openly backing specific political parties.

With this much power, it is important that newspapers stick to a code of conduct or rules set out by independent organisations. This is known as regulation.

Regulation and Press Complaints

Sometimes it is not facts that are reported but the opinions of journalists and editors. This is known as bias. This is one of the reasons why newspapers are subject to regulation. Journalists often go to extreme lengths to find their story and news organisations are regulated to protect people from press intrusion or harassment.

Here J K Rowling complains to the regulators about press behaviour outside her home.

Case study: The Leveson Inquiry

The Leveson Inquiry was a public, judge-led inquiry. It was set up by Prime Minister David Cameron to investigate the press after journalists at The News of the World were accused of illegally accessing the voicemail messages on other people's phones, without their knowledge or consent. They were also accused of bribing police officers. Some of those who had their mobile phones 'hacked' in this way were celebrities, sports people and politicians.

The News of the World was closed down by its owner, News International, when this information became public. Lord Justice Leveson stated his recommendations on how the press should be regulated. They were:

• Newspapers should continue to be self-regulated and government should have no power over what newspapers publish.
• A new press standards organisation, with a new code of conduct should be created by the press industry. Legislation should be provided to ensure this new press standards organisation would be independent and effective in dealing with public complaints.

Who regulates newspapers now?

Newspaper editors must follow the rules of the Editor's Code of Practice. 

Before the Leveson inquiry, newspapers and their editors were regulated by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). 

After the Leveson Inquiry it was replaced by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).

The IPSO now investigate complaints about breaches of the Editor's Code of Practice.

Who regulates online news?

Click on the logo to find out more about Impress.

Newspaper funding in the age of the internet.

How are newspapers funded? When you buy a paper, you spend money purchasing the product. But what happens when people are reading the same stories for free via the internet? Why would people still pay for the product at all?

Since the internet has eroded traditional funding streams, it is vital that newspapers continue making enough profit to pay journalists and editors to generate the news product.

Task: How much does each newspaper cost? Research the cover price of the following newspapers. What do you notice about the prices and which newspapers cost the most or the least? Why do you think this is?

1. The Times
2. The Sun
3. The Daily Mail
4. The Guardian
5. The Telegraph
6. The Mirror

Circulation and readership

A major source of income is via advertisers who pay to market their own products in newspapers. Companies know it is a major part of a marketing campaign to advertise their product in a newspaper with a large readership because plenty of potential customers will see their advertisement. As a result, advertisers pay news organisations substantial costs to buy space in their publication, and how much they pay depends on how many readers they expect to buy the newspaper.

A newspaper's circulation is the number of copies that are distributed to newsagents and news stands on an average day. These numbers are recorded by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).

The ABC's membership comes from various media organisations, traders, advertisers and agencies that provide statistics to calculate research data.

The National Readership Survey (NRS) provides audience research to newspapers and potential advertisers on estimated readership numbers, which can often be quite different from circulation figures.

A newspaper's readership is the newspaper's total circulation multiplied by the average number of people who read each copy. For example, various family members may read the same copy of a newspaper. This 'pass-along' rate is generally thought to be about 2.5 readers per publication. This relationship between readership and circulation is known as readers-per-copy.

Task: Click on the logo above to find out the ABC figures for each of the national and regional newspapers. Create a table in your book detailing the ABC figure for each newspaper's print edition and online product.

1. The Times
2. The Sun
3. The Daily Mail
4. The Guardian
5. The Telegraph
6. The Mirror
7. The Leicester Mercury

Online news

All major UK newspapers have web editions which can sometimes include more content than the printed paper. Newspapers may offer a lot of this content for free, a number place some or all of their content behind a paywall, which means readers must pay to access it. Being able to link to existing web pages allows readers access to additional content which includes archived material. 

Online newspapers enjoy a crucial advantage over print versions in that they can be updated in real-time with breaking news. This has made online newspapers more like broadcast media channels that can transmit 24 hours a day. 

In 2005, 13 million newspapers were sold daily; by 2015, this figure fell to 7 million. The availability of newspapers online is partly responsible for this decline but the popularity of blogs, vlogs and other online content areas have made an impact too. The Independent newspaper moved to an online only publication in 2016.

Homework Task: Look at the online news products offered by the different newspapers.

Cuffs - Analysis

We're going to watch Cuffs and try to identify some of the techniques used in the making of the programme.

Make notes on the use of the following:

• Continuity editing
• Shot reverse shot
• Cross cutting
• Fast pace editing
• Establishing shot
• Point of view shot
• Aerial shot
• Hand held camera
• Steadicam
• Tracking shot
• Diegetic sound
• Non-diegetic sound

Moving Image Glossary

Moving Image Glossary from MissCTurner

TV Crime Drama - Media Representations

Media representations: how the media portray events, issues, individuals and social groups.

With reference to episode 1 of Cuffs you need to make notes on all the following:

• Events that take place in the episode (what are they?)
• Issues that the episode deals with (first decide what they are)
• How individuals are represented (first identify what individuals are represented)
• How social groups are represented (again, first identify what social groups the episode identifies)

You'll also be thinking about the following at some point soon:

1. Social Context – how media products reflect the society in which they are produced and that of their target audience.
2. Cultural Context – how media products reflect the arts and culture, including popular culture, of their time.
3. Historical Context – how media products reflect historical events and social changes.
4. Political Context – how media products reflect political viewpoints, messages, values and beliefs.

TV Crime Drama Conventions

The following are things that are normally seen (conventions) in TV crime drama:

• Car chase
• Villains
• Police jargon
• Rookie cop
• Experienced tougher cop
• Dramatic music
• Detectives
• Violence/ fighting
• Tension between characters and in scenes (both between cops and in knife fight)
• Teamwork
• Hierarchy - the bosses and the other ranks
• Victim
• Mystery - e.g.: who was the man at the end of the episode

Referring to episode 1 of Cuffs add examples to each convention.

Mail Online - homepage analysis

Complete the following tasks:

Go to the Mail Online website.

• List all the first 30 news stories that appear on the homepage.
• Categorise the stories by type: celebrity gossip, sport, world news, UK news, politics, sport etc
• What stories appear more often?
• Why would those stories be popular? Give reasons? What does this tell you about the sort of person that reads this site?
• Look at the 'sidebar of shame'.
• List the first 20 'stories'.
• Categorise the stories - this may need to be by type of celebrity or content of the article.

Media Language - Codes and Conventions of Newspapers

The layout of newspapers follows a clear format. These typical elements such as a 'Masthead' and 'Splash' are known as the Codes and Conventions of newspaper layout and you need to name them all using accurate terminology. You will analyse newspapers as media products in your Media Messages exam.

Audience

Understanding the layout means you can immediately judge the content you expect to be reading in the product. There are two main types of newspapers Broadsheet and Tabloid and as a rule Broadsheet publications cover news stories in more depth, focusing on politics, economy and 'hard' news events, catering for an educated audience. Tabloids often include more 'soft' news such as celebrity stories and sensationalist language to appeal to a different demographic group. Broadsheet audiences are sometimes accredited with the tag 'information seekers' while Tabloid audiences are sometimes tagged 'emotional participants'.

Format

A traditional quality broadsheet would use the layout below. These newspapers were printed on sheets of paper 116.83 x 86.28cm. In recent years newspapers that have traditionally used the broadsheet size have changed their format to cope with the rising costs of paper and newsprint.

A traditional Broadsheet format

The Times and Independent have become tabloid size, while The Guardian has adopted a new Compact or Berliner format. As a result of such changes the terms 'broadsheet quality press' and the 'popular tabloid press' are now outdated terms. Some would argue that the quality press has become more like the popular or gutter press, a process known as tabloidisation.

The Berliner or Compact format

The Tabloid newspaper format is half the size of a Broadsheet, with pages measuring 58.4 x 40.6cm  and are known as the Popular Press.

The Daily Mail is a Tabloid newspaper and therefore concerned more with sensationalism and gossip as part of its news values. The news agenda of this paper is different to The Guardian. You should be able to work this out by looking closely at the content.

Task: 1. Select two front pages, one from The Guardian and one from The Daily Mail. Deconstruct the front covers, labelling the conventions you can find.

2. Ensure all work is completed and in your exercise book

Representation of teenagers - Mail Online/ Daily Mail

Research how teenagers are represented by the Mail Online.

• Google 'mail online teenagers' - see image above.
• Choose at least 5 different stories that cover a range of teenage issues and experiences.
• Save the images that have been used. Write about the types of images used and what they tell the audience about teenagers. Comment on how teenagers are represented in the images? 
• Read through the articles and list the positive and negative words and phrases used in each one. What do they tell us about the attitudes towards teenagers? Are these attitudes fair? What stereotypes are used? Who are the audience? How can you tell? Explain your thinking in as much detail as possible.

Teens in TV drama - Pretty Little Liars

Premise:

Set in the small suburban town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania (not far from Philadelphia), the series follows the lives of five girls: Spencer Hastings, Alison DiLaurentis, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin and Emily Fields, whose clique falls apart after the leader of the group, Alison, goes missing. One year later, the remaining estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious villain named "A" or "A.D.", who threatens and tortures them for the mistakes they have made before and after Alison was alive. At first, they think it is Alison herself, but after her body is found, the girls realise that someone else is planning on ruining their lives.

Watch episode one and make notes on the following:

1. How realistic are the teenage representations in the episode?
2. What works and what seems a little far fetched?
3. What is interesting about the mise en scene?
4. What stereotypes are used?
5. Why are those stereotypes used?
6. In what ways do the representations challenge stereotypes (offer countertypes)?

Introduction to TV Drama: Representation of Teens

Do you believe these characters are real? A writer's job is tricky, especially with science fiction genre programmes. They must engage the audience and make them invest in the characters in order to deliver a satisfying narrative resolution. 

Class is made for BBC 3, a channel that caters for young people. So you can expect the characters to seem realistic because the target audience need to believe they are seeing themselves presented as real people.

Task: Watch the trailer again and jot down any elements of the characters that make them seem like realistic teenage characters.
In media lessons, you will be finding out how teenagers are represented in TV Drama and thinking about whether they are fairly and accurately portrayed by writers or whether they are heavily stereotyped. Do you think teenagers are presented using traditional stereotypes or do they seem more realistic in the programmes that you enjoy watching? It is usual for teen characters to be oversimplified if they appear in a programme made to appeal to an older target audience. Programmes created for young adults tend to have more convincing, realistic interpretations of how teenagers behave.

Task: Working in pairs, you need to create a powerpoint presentation looking at how teenagers are represented in TV Drama. You can choose the TV Dramas that you know to outline how some programmes are more convincing and successful than others.

News - How are teenagers represented in newspaper articles?

Click on the image above to read this article about how language used in newspaper articles creates a negative impression of teenagers and promotes the negative stereotypes about that demographic group.

Click the image of different British teenagers from around the country to read their views about the stereotypes they battle against.

But while news tends to focus on either end of the scale from the academic bright stars or the criminalised 'youths' there are some columnists who have written about this unfair portrayal. Click on the logo below to read this opinion piece about the accepted stereotypes and how they are unfounded.

Representation - Teenage stereotypes

Stereotype (brief definition):

'a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing'.

Are teenagers represented in a fair way in the media?

Find a variety of images representing the  typical teenager. Is it easy to find positive images or are most of them negative? What are the reasons for this?

Research Task:

1. Collect a range of images (at least 10) of teenagers, both positive and negative. Make a mood board or poster using these images. (use Photoshop). Print out and stick in your book.
2. Find three news articles which involve teenage stars. Copy and paste the headline and relevant text from these. Print out and stick in your book.

Using these images and articles as your evidence, answer the following questions:

• What you think the key stereotypes are that teenagers have to cope with? 
• Do you think these are fair or not? 
• In your opinion are teenagers represented accurately in the media? Give reasons for all your answers.

Extension Task:

Can you think of anywhere in the media where teenagers are presented in a really positive light. 

Add this to your work to try and balance your argument about teenage stereotyping.

10W - work to do (Monday 3rd - Wednesday 5th June)

• Make sure all your research and planning is in your folder.
• Draw flat plans for your cover, contents page, and double page spread - use your research to guide the design decisions you make
• Start working on photoshop

1. Use the time properly
2. You should have workable drafts of your cover and contents pages by the end of Wednesday's lesson

10W - work to do

Complete the following tasks in this order:

1. Make the changes to your essays.
2. Continue with the magazine work.

Only commence working on your magazine when the essay has been amended.

Year 10 work - Google Drive

Click on the image to access the folder.

Monday 5th - Wednesday 7th June - Magazine research

Complete all the research tasks in the blog post below.

Extension task:

Draw flat plans of your cover, contents page and double page spread.

Magazine Research - Part 1

Research the following:

• Research the genre-conventions of the magazines within your chosen genre
• Examples of existing titles within the genre
• Analyse a cover, contents page and double page spread from an existing title within your genre
• Colour palettes-five examples of colour palettes you may use. Add examples from your genre.
• Fonts-five examples of the type of font you may use. Add examples from your genre.
• Language register (A/A*)
• Moodboard-create at least one for the ideas that have inspired you.
• Audience research (UK Tribes)-which tribe would buy your magazine? They are the tribe/ target audience you are aiming your magazine at.
• Use SurveyMonkey to create a Questionnaire aimed at your audience. Ask at least 5 people to answer it.
• Create audience profiles for a male and a female audience member.
• Analyse the media institution that will publish your magazine

Add as much detail as possible. Look at the guidance on the blog for extra help. Look at the examples for ideas.

Magazine research: half-term homework

• Colour palettes-five examples of colour palettes you may use. Add examples from your genre.
• Fonts-five examples of the type of font you may use. Add examples from your genre.
• Audience research (UK Tribes)-which tribe would buy your magazine? They are the tribe/ target audience you are aiming your magazine at.
• Create audience profiles for a male and a female audience member.

Half-term homework challenge

Design challenge.

It's up to you to choose the format e.g.: drawing, photography, collage etc

The briefs are:

• an animal
• a literary hero
• a pattern
• retro inspired
• a clock
• in the style of another artist
• a self-portrait

Pick as few or as many as you want. Combine and adapt as you see fit.

10W - work to do

1. Complete the film poster work
2. Start researching magazines
3. Analyse a magazine cover, contents page and double page spread
4. Look at a full marks example

Magazines - Research and Planning (1) 10W

Genre choices are:

• music 
• fashion
• sport

Today's work:

1. Decide on your genre
2. Research magazine titles within that genre. Make a list of existing titles.
3. Collect images of as many different covers as you can. Group by title e.g. Vogue, Wonderland, iD (all fashion titles).
4. Annotate a magazine cover identifying key features (see post above)

Magazine Research, Planning & Evaluation - Jasmine Aldridge

GCSE Media Studies Coursework - Magazine research and planning from Neill Ford

Poster Evaluation Questions

You need to answer the following questions in as much detail as possible. This is a very important part of this project.

Answer each question in as much detail as possible. Add examples from all parts of your work.

As guidance, the commentary should be around 350–750 words in length; or 5–10 slides if using a PowerPoint style presentation.

• How effective was your research into similar posters and relevant target audiences. What did you learn from your research into these two areas? In what ways did this shape the creation of your posters?
• What creative decisions did you have to make at the different stages of your poster production? How did your posters change as your work progressed?
• How closely does your poster follow the forms and conventions of existing posters? Give examples of real posters you referenced.
• How successful is your finished poster? What are its strengths and weaknesses?

Poster Evaluation - From The Specification

The production exercise should be supported by an evaluative commentary, reflecting on decisions made and explaining how codes and conventions and media language have been employed to convey messages about representation. As with the comparative analytical assignment, the commentary may be written or submitted as a podcast or a slide presentation such as PowerPoint.

As guidance, the commentary should be around 350–750 words in length; or 5–10 slides if using a PowerPoint style presentation; or around three minutes for a podcast.

In the commentary, the following areas must be covered in whatever form the candidate has chosen:

• an account of the research and planning carried out
• how the production is targeted at a particular target audience
• an explanation of the ways in which media language has been used in the production exercise to communicate representation
• an explanation of the ways in which codes and conventions have been used in the production exercise to communicate representation
• an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses within the finished production.

10WMS1 - Work schedule

Monday 24th April - Friday 5th May

• 5 lessons/ 5 hours to complete both film posters

Monday 8th - Friday 12th May

• 3 lessons/ 3 hours to complete your evaluation

Easter homework challenge

The following task is for the committed Media Studies students among you (it is optional):

Create a media journal to collect, curate or collate your creativity over the Easter break. This can take the form of a book, folder, blog or any other suitable format.

You could include the following:

• film or TV reviews
• music recommendations
• mood boards
• playlists or mix CDs
• drawings
• doodles
• lists
• short stories
• collages
• photos
• any other creative elements you can think of

Monday 3rd April - Work

Do the following:

• Spend 15 minutes finishing your essay.
• Caitlin, Ellie and Niamh - you still this lesson to finish your essays.
• If you've already finished then check for mistakes.
• Ensure that your name is on every page.
• Check that you have included the question at the start of the essay.
• Print out your essay and hand it to Miss Marvin.

Extension task

You will be receiving feedback on your draft film posters this week. In preparation for this you need to re-familiarise yourselves with Photoshop.

Complete this simple task:

1. Make one CD cover (follow the instructions below). 
2. Print out the CD cover and stick in your books.

CD Cover Activity

• Choose a music artist and make one CD cover. 
• This can be for an existing album or for one you have invented yourself. 
• You can include an image of the artist (see example below for American rapper Kanye West). On the other hand, you could make something more artistic (see example above for American punk band Sonic Youth).

PHOTOSHOP FAQ

Where do I find it?

In the start menu, select - all programmes - common programmes - adobe production premium - PhotoShop (64bit)

How do I get started?

In the upper left select - file - new

What page size do I need?

CD covers are SQUARE, alter the height and width to 120mm. Ensure the colour mode is 8bit and the background colour is white.

How do I add an image?

You should have been able to save your image from google. In the upper left select - file - open and locate the image you downloaded. The image will appear in a new tab, DO NOT PANIC, pull the tab down by pressing and holding the left mouse button until it appears in front of your white square tab, next press shift + v to drag and drop the image onto your white square tab

The Image doesn't fill the square!

Press ctrl + t, now press and hold shift, pinch the corner of the image and stretch it until it fills the space. You can use the move tool (shift v) to align it properly.

How do I add text?

On the left hand side it a T, click on the T and then draw a text box where ever you wish. Type the name of your band and select a font and a size just as you would do on word.

Why doesn't it look quite right?

In really, really basic terms, design is about symmetry. Try and imagine your CD cover is divided equally into thirds, in 2 of these thirds something 'different' should be happening to the remaining third. Try and align yours along these principles.

Essay Planning

Essay Planning

Your task for this lesson is to plan your essay.

1. Download this tip sheet and read the first two sections very carefully. This sheet contains higher level vocabulary that you need to include in your essays.

2. Decide on a structure for your essay.

You can use choose your own structure or structure your work in a similar way to the example essay. You may use headings to structure your essay.

Suitable headings might be:

• Brief plot outlines
• The Hunger Games - write about representation in the film (refer to mise en scene, camerawork, editing, sound)
• The Amazing Spiderman -  write about representation in the film (refer to mise en scene, camerawork, editing, sound)
• Comparison of representation in The Hunger Games and The Amazing Spiderman

3. Make some notes that will help you answer the essay. One side of A4 should do the job.

4. Complete the extension task on the tip sheet. There are lots of statements about what a stereotype is which will help you to develop your analysis and discussion of teenage characters in your essay.

Representation of teenagers - planning

You need to decide on a structure for essay - then you need to make some notes that will help you answer the essay. One side of A4 should do the job.

You can use choose your own structure  or structure your work in a similar way to the example essay.

You may use headings to structure your essay.

Suitable headings might be:

• Brief plot outlines
• The Hunger Games - write about representation in the film (refer to mise en scene, camerawork, editing, sound)
• The Amazing Spiderman -  write about representation in the film (refer to mise en scene, camerawork, editing, sound)
• Comparison of representation in The Hunger Games and The Amazing Spiderman

10WMS1 - work schedule (2nd - 30th March)

Thursday 2nd March (Mr Ford)

Continue watching The Amazing Spiderman

Monday 6th March (Miss Marvin)

Finish watching The Amazing Spiderman

Wednesday 8th March (Mr Ford)

Analyse a scene from The Amazing Spiderman (finish for homework)

Monday 13th March (Mr Ford)

Analyse another scene from The Amazing Spiderman

Tuesday 14th March (Miss Marvin)

Finish analysing the second scene from The Amazing Spiderman

Thursday 16th March (Mr Ford)

Introduction to the essay question.

Read the exemplar essay.
Add sound and editing to your analysis.

Monday 20th March (Miss Marvin)
Start to compile a notes page to use when writing the essay.

Wednesday 22nd March (Mr Ford)
Finish compiling notes page for use in essay (complete for homework)

Monday 27th March (Mr Ford)

Essay lesson 1

Tuesday 28^th March (Miss Marvin)

Essay lesson 2

Thursday 30th March (Mr Ford)
Essay lesson 3

Representation of teenagers - sound and editing

Re-watch the four scenes and make brief notes on the following:

Sound:

• diegetic sound
• non-diegetic sound
• synchronous sound
• asynchronous sound
• music - score and songs

Editing:

• fast paced editing
• shot reverse shot
• cross cutting
• CGI

Year 10 Essay (B321)

The essay question you will answer is:

Compare how teenagers are represented in the action adventure films: The Hunger Games and The Amazing Spiderman.

As guidance, the essay should be approximately 800–1,500 words in length and this may be

divided into sections

You need to demonstrate:

• detailed and thorough knowledge and understanding of the texts studied
• thoughtful and insightful analysis and interpretation of the texts
• understanding of how texts represent social and cultural messages and values,
• including proficient identification and interpretation of those messages and values
• understanding of how texts use media language and areas of representation
• knowledge and understanding of the codes and conventions according to generic categorisations of media texts
• accurate use of technical terms and medium-specific terminology, as appropriate
• understanding of the effects of techniques on texts and audiences
• confident comparison of media texts, as appropriate
• appropriate use of some examples to support points made
• personal insights and engagement with objects of study and concepts.

Year 10 Essay - Potential Structure

Introduction: brief overview/ synopsis of the two films. refer to representation of teenagers in a general way.

Film 1 mise en scene: refer to specific examples from the clips
Film 1 sound: refer to specific examples from the clips
Film 1 editing: refer to specific examples from the clips
Film 1 camerawork: refer to specific examples from the clips

Film 2 mise en scene: refer to specific examples from the clips
Film 2 sound: refer to specific examples from the clips
Film 2 editing: refer to specific examples from the clips
Film 2 camerawork: refer to specific examples from the clips

Compare and contrast the two films.
Own opinion regarding representation of teenagers

Example essay

The Hunger Games the Amazing Spiderman Essay by neill ford on Scribd

The Amazing Spiderman - Oscorp Tower Fight Scene

The Amazing Spiderman - Peter's High School Life

Analyse this clip using the same criteria and terminology that you employed on the scenes from The Hunger Games here.

This clip is shorter and more action packed - so it should be quicker and easier to do.

Remember to include details on the representation of Peter Parker as a teenager.

The Hunger Games - Forest fire scene

Analyse this clip using the same criteria and terminology that you employed on the Reaping scene here.

This clip is shorter and more action packed - so it should be quicker and easier to do.

Creative challenge - A themed music mix

Your task is to create a themed mix of music. The mix can tell a story, evoke a mood or represent a facet of your personality. You choose - it just needs to be themed.

There are a few guidelines to keep in mind:

• Theme your mix. No mix without a theme will be accepted.
• 90 minutes absolute max. CD's are dying but restraints are good.
• To present your mix use Spotify, Apple music (or other similar service) or burn to a CD.
• Email me the link or hand me the CD.
• Include a cover image. You must have some sort of artwork.
• Remember, make it great.
• There is a lot of this sort of thing on Pinterest and Tumblr - I'll leave you to discover those.
• There will be prizes for the best mixes and artwork.

Click on the image for additional ideas:

10W - Work to do (Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th February)

Do the following:

• Complete the moving image terminology definitions work.
• Start the The Hunger Games reaping scene task - follow the instructions carefully and ensure you include as much detail as possible. 

The Hunger Games - Reaping scene

Hunger Games – Reaping Scene YR10