Easter holiday revision: Miss O's Class Section A

 • Revise media terminology – especially technical terms for textual analysis

•  Use the exam practice materials on the blog. Complete one exam practice minimum

(Primeval extract: Gender)

• Watch a wide range of TV dramas and make notes on the representation of age: What

character types/stereotypes/archetypes/binary opposites can you identify?

Section A: TV Drama: Exam practice

Click here to see examples of extracts for you to practice your exam technique. You should work through these as revision over the Easter holidays and must submit at least one exam practice (The extract from 'Primeval' below) on the first day back, Monday 15th April.

Remember the format of the question is always the same - only the bold underlined word is subject to change.

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representation of AREA OF REPRESENTATION using the following:

- Camera shots, angles, movement and compositon

- Editing

- Sound

- Mise en scene

You should follow up each class exam practice with at least one of these, so that you can a) act on your EBIs and b) practise writing TONS under the pressure of timed conditions! (4 screenings - Take notes on screenings 2-4 only and then 45 minutes to write the essay) 

These are the extracts we have studied in class:

Gender

WC 11th March

Easter holiday exam practice: Due Monday 15th April

Ethnicity
WC 18th March

WC 25th March

Age

WC 15th April

Class
WC 22nd April

Homework: Apply what you have learned from the lesson on the 'Cranford' extract to plan and write an exam essay on the representation of class in this extract from 'North and South'. Due: Monday 30th April

Disability

WC 22nd April-30th April

Please note: Unfortunately the class extract we used from 'Inside I'm Dancing' has been removed from Youtube. Please see Miss. Osborne if you would like to borrow the DVD (Chapter 10 57:15-1:06:00)

Alternatively, please use this extract to write an exam practice essay:

Sexuality

WC 29th April - Independent work

Introduction to narrative theory

Read through this introductory powerpoint and make notes.

Look up the following theories in more detail:
- Todorov
- Propp
- Strauss (Binary opposition)

Choose one and make notes on how this can be applied to any TV drama of your choice.

Glossary: Textual analysis technical terms

TV Drama Technical Terms Glossary

A helpful glossary for Media Studies

Another helpful glossary

Camera shots and angles

TV Drama - Miss O's lessons

Please find the links to lesson powerpoints below. Please also check these slides for details of any homework that may have been set to ensure you stay on top of the workload:

Monday 7th plus Tuesday 8th (cover lesson) January - Intro to TV drama

Tuesday 22nd January - Introduction to mise en scene (resource currently unavailable - please get the notes from your 'Study Buddy' in the meantime)

Monday 28th January - Mise en scene and sound

Tuesday 29th January - Writing about sound

Monday 4th February - Camera shots and angles

Tuesday 5th February - Writing about camera shots and angles

Monday 11th February - Introduction to camera movement and editing (handout here)

Tuesday 12th February - TV Drama, time and editing

Tuesday 26th February - Binary Opposition and gender

Monday 4th March - Gender in an extract ('Cutting It')

Tuesday 5th March - Preparing an exam response AS Media Studies mark scheme

Thursday 7th March - Binary opposition and crime drama (handout here)

Cover work for 11th and 12th March

Thursday 14th March - Narrative theory and representation ('Life on Mars')
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwqC0c0U1v7GM1Q4UmZQMmNsQ28/edit?usp=sharing

Monday 18th March - Introduction to representation of ethnicity ('Luther'). Accompanying article is saved here.

Tuesday 19th March - Cover lesson - Background reading and accompanying questions on 'Race in the Media'

Thursday 21st March - Representation of ethnicity in Spooks

Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th March - Ethnicity in an extract ('Hotel Babylon')

Monday 15th April - Peer assessment lesson on 'Primeval' (gender extract set for HW) Candidate's responses here. Please also refer to hard copy of 'Peer assessment' pack

Tuesday 16th April-Friday 19th April - Representation of age in 'Monarch of the Glen'. Low level 2 response here. Low level 4 response here.

Monday 22nd April - Period dramas and class

Tuesday 23rd April - Putting together a model analysis of representation of class in 'Cranford'. Example of note-taking stage here.

Thursday 25th April - Introduction to representation of disability

Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th April - Analysis of camera angles and  editing linked to representation of disability

Independent work set on representation of sexuality in TV drama - Support powerpoints are available here and here.

Reminder for Miss Osborne's class - Mon 10th and Mon 18th

As discussed, by now you should have all of the theory and information you need to proceed with planning and producing your music magazine so you should spend our Monday lessons in a computer room working on this.
There are no rooms available for us to use as a class, so please work in one of the following rooms, assuming they are not fully-booked: S2, S13 (some PCs available sharing with Ms. James's Year 11s), M15 or M16 - or the sixth form study area.
I will be based in S12 as usual should you have any queries; please report to me in there at some point during the day so I can mark you present. And of course, don't forget I'll be accessing your blogs to check on the progress you are making!
Tuesdays - Please continue with your coursework as usual.
Thursdays - Our lessons will take place as usual in S13.

Remember that after Christmas, all lessons will be spent preparing for the exam, so you must make excellent use of the remaining lesson time you have!

Good luck.

Flat planning and pagination

Before you start finalising the design of your contents page, you need to have decided:
a) How many pages your magazine will have (Think about: price, frequency of publication, existing media etc.)
b) The types of contents your magazine will include (Think about: audience research findings, existing media)
b) The pagination of your magazine - the order in which you'll arrange your pages and why

What is a flat plan?

Link to a blank flat plan

Planning your magazine cover - linking your design to your brand

Once you have established a clear idea of your magazine's brand identity, how it fits in with existing media and how you plan to attract your target audience, you are ready to start planning.
Refer to this lesson and your analysis of Q and Kerrang! magazine to help you explain your planning and design decisions for your own music magazine

Research - Impact - Planning

• Some people are launching into their photography without having fully established a sense of their magazine’s brand identity or how they want to represent their artists in the magazine.

• It’s essential that you do this first, so that your findings inform your planning decisions and to ensure that you take the right sort of photographs in the first place!

• Think about it like a three-part process…

Refer to this lesson from 26/11/12 to ensure you understand the importance of linking your research and planning together and check that you are able to answer the first four questions in detail before proceeding!

Music magazines: Getting started

You should have already read this post from 14th September, to start you thinking about the music industry and the magazines are already on the market and the issues and challenges they face.

Using the magazines you brought in for homework, your next step is to analyse the contents of at least three different magazines and from this, begin to draw conclusions about genre, target audience and the mode of address that your chosen magazine adopts.

Click here for the powerpoint for Monday's lesson (22nd October 2012) and here for a blank content analysis grid

Click here for a useful list of UK Music magazines, recommended by The British Council

Click here for a guide to existing media (grouped by genre) that another AS Media student has published via Slideshare

Rethinking Research

As promised, this post include lots of links to useful resources to help you with your research for your music magazine.

Here's the powerpoint from Monday's lesson, which outlines the key points we discussed:
Reflecting on research lesson - Monday 15th October


Audience research 

What are focus groups and how to run them
Conducting a focus group
A guide to using focus groups for research
An example of a student's analysis of her focus group findings (it would be better to include a video link as well, though)

A few examples of mood boards - useful prompts for focus groups 

http://catherinebaker-as.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/moodboard.html
http://brianair.wordpress.com/as-film-studies/moodboard/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTY8vueiYSM - a multimedia example!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajzeu8cgj-0&feature=related - a student talking about her mood board and how it will influence her new music magazine

Using your blog to gather information

Check out these very simple instructions which explain how to include a survey using blogger. The drawback is, you can only ask one question, so choose carefully! But remember you could update it at different points in your research. E.g. Which of these music magazines do you read? Then, later in your coursework, you could upload your magazine and ask your audience questions such as whether they think you have successfully followed the conventions of your chosen genre; would they buy the magazine; do they think it represents the star image in 'X' way, etc. etc.

Alternatively, if you'd like to be able to ask more questions, you can sign up for a free Survey Monkey account to create a whole survey online.

Research into existing media

Click here for the powerpoint for Monday's lesson (22nd October 2012) and here for a blank content analysis grid

Click here for a useful list of UK Music magazines, recommended by The British Council

Click here for a guide to existing media (grouped by genre) that another AS Media student has published via Slideshare

Media packs and target audiences of existing media

Intro to textual analysis skills lessons and resources

As promised, where relevant, I'll upload power points and resources from our lessons on to Googledrive and create links to them below. Separate posts will be created for the different topics we study.

Links to all 'Introduction to Textual Analysis' lessons will appear in this post. Please ensure you use these resources to keep your notes up to date and catch up on any work you have missed.

Miss O

Intro to Media Language lesson 1 - 10/9/12

Intro to Media Language lesson 2 - 17/9/12

Cover lesson for Thursday 20th September

Cover lesson for Tuesday 25th September

Intro to Media Language - Magazine covers - 27/9/12

Media Language and Modes of Address - 1/10/12

Media Language - Analysing photographs and planning your own - 8/10/12

Shot list for use in cover lesson 9/10/12 - Please plan in detail!

Linking textual analysis of music magazines to brand and target audience - 19/11/12

Images for Tues p2 lesson

Click on your allocated image to download the jpeg file. When it appears, right click and select 'Save image as...' - then save it to your 'My documents' or USB stick.