Students were offered a creative task that will reintroduce them to the technology available at BGS and help develop the relevant creative media skills that will be required if the A2 coursework is to access the higher grades. The task is to create a trailer that will advertise the course. The audience for the trailer is a Year 11 audience who have not had any form of formal media education.
A class discussion developed ideas for content. These ideas were:
- Brief talking heads with media students that will respond to questions such as 'One word to describe media studies?' , 'What is media studies?', 'What have you enjoyed about the course?' and 'Is media studies a doss subject?' The class discussed the perception of this course being viewed as an 'easy option' and that the trailer should challenge this perception.
- Archive film footage
- Images of technology
- Represent the creativity of the course through the editing and ideas within the trailer
- An appropriate soundtrack.
Below is a link to a media studies trailer that was created by AS students in the summer of 2010. It may provide some ideas/inspiration/motivation:
This lesson was very brief due to the loss of lesson three but we will continue gathering the visual footage next week. We will have next Friday morning to gather the visual material and students will be editing the film the following week. All students will have the same raw footage on four computers and will be responsible for the editing and construction of their own trailer.
HOMEWORK: Bring some ideas for filming to Friday's lesson. COMPLETE THE THEORY ESSAY. REMEMBER, THERE IS A DOWNLOAD TO HELP YOU WITH THIS ESSAY.CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO ACCESS ESSAY GUIDE:
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