Welcome to my media world Year 12. Lovely to meet you all. Today's two hours of mirth and merry media was a very gentle introduction to your GCE AS Level experience. Welcome aboard.
The session began with an overview of the course. The main point to remember is that the course is 50% exam 50% coursework. The main aim of my introduction was to make it very clear that the coursework is of VAST importance. The class were shown examples of last year's coursework broadcast media. Further examples of student coursework are available on the fishymedia vimeo site. This site is filled with examples of student broadcast media and a BBC report of last year's Beverley Joint Sixth demonstration. STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PERUSE THE WORK POSTED TO THIS SITE. All the work I shared with you today is available on the vimeo site. The link below will take you to the site via a documentary that I recently posted to vimeo:
The second half of the session involved students being offered the shower scene from Alf Hitchcock's 'Psycho', the opening scenes of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws', and the trailer to the first series of Channel Four's 'Skins'. The aim of this section of the lesson was make students aware of the craft of film-making. For example, the importance of sound and editing and how content is shaped by the marriage of sound and image.
Click on link to access the famous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' [1960]:
Click on link to access trailer for first series of Skins. This trailer was first broadcast in December 2006:
Homework: Students should read all the material that I offered you in this session. Students will be expected to use the language of media in the next session so familiarise yourself with terms such as polysemic, diegetic sound, anchorage, connotation etc. Read my Spielberg essay. You will be expected to produce written work in a similar style.
Watch student broadcast media via the fishymedia vimeo site and peruse the fishymedia archive to gain an overview of the world of media and gain a sense of the course and its content.
Watch this film. It will make you smile. Click on link:
See you next week.
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