YEAR 12 LESSON NINE [12th Nov 12]: Homework.

Students began to edit the 'JOINT SIXTH SURVIVAL GUIDE'. Each group has 27 minutes of material that needs to be shaped into a 5 or 6 minute film that offers an insight into the world of A Level study to any Y11 student currently considering attending the Joint Sixth Form. The lesson began with a discussion that considered Institution, Audience, Representation and Media Forms. All these features need to be considered before beginning to construct broadcast media.

The whole aim of the session was to provide students with the opportunity to shape their filming into a convincing and sophisticated media text. The quality of the work was impressive. Well done.

HOMEWORK: Next week we will be attempting to complete this creative work therefore students MUST bring a soundtrack to the session. If you bring an MP3 file on a memory stick we can place this underneath the visual content. YOU MUST BRING YOUR MP3 FILES NEXT WEEK. THE SOUNDTRACK IS AN ESSENTIAL FEATURE OF THE TEXT AND WILL DICTATE THE RHYTHM OF YOUR EDITING.
Students are more than welcome to edit throughout the week. Let's see how keen you are!

Students also need to digest the two texts below as they will be used to inspire a written homework after our next session. These two films attempt to document our recent trip to the Bradford National Media Museum. Enjoy.
Click on links:
http://vimeo.com/53339844
http://vimeo.com/53339845

YEAR 13 LESSON NINE [7th Nov 12]: Homework.

Students continued to construct their Bradford Media Museum films. This creative lesson is a 'warm up' for the work that we will be constructing over the next couple of weeks.

HOMEWORK: Next lesson we will begin to construct our 'mini' linked productions. Students must consider the nature of the work that they will be constructing. Next week we will be filming so students must consider their GAMEPLAN. Students must consider the structure of their creative work and consider the critical focus. REMEMBER...the whole point of the linked production is to deliver a critical conclusion. This is really a piece of investigative journalism so students must consider why they are investigating their specific media focus and what they are attempting to discover. Students must appear on Wednesday with some ideas.

YEAR 12 LESSON EIGHT [5th Nov 12]: Homework.

Students continued to edit films. Some of the work was genuinely accomplished. Particular praise is due to the 'Kaiser Chiefs' group as there is a genuine link between visual and audio. Remember it is not enough to simply place audio beneath a series of images. The visual imagery must be linked to the rhythm of the soundtrack.

HOMEWORK: Complete the two questions for homework. Click on link to access the Dexter broadcast media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8-Rqo-VT4
The print media appears at the top of the blog.
The aim of this homework is for students to use media language in an appropriate manner when offering a critical analysis.

Questions:
1. How are media forms shaped to suggest the nature
of the central character in the opening credits to Dexter ?
Reference must be made to the enigma codes that drive this text.

2. In the print media, how are media forms used to suggest the nature of the central character?
Reference must be made to the use of the colour red, the use of humour, and the connotation of key images.

YEAR 13 LESSON EIGHT [24th Oct 12]: Homework.

Students began their first creative task of the year and were reintroduced to the world of video editing. Footage gathered by Chimpnimsky at the recent trip to Bradford's National Media Museum was used to construct a music video. This task is a 'warm-up' exercise for the creative work that will be offered to students when we return to school after half-term. The next session will aim to complete the work that was constructed in today's session before moving into the construction of films that relate to the impact of digital media. If we stay in the same groups that were formed today, we should be able to film and edit three films that will inform understanding of issues that relate to A2 Media study. Students will be expected to construct work that will have some form of 'investigative' aim...just like the linked production that will inform your critical investigation.

HOMEWORK: Those D grade essays that lacked specific detail need to be rewritten. Students should use their essays as a draft and use my comments as a guide to access the higher grades. Students must support their view with a specific textual example. WE MUST IMPROVE THE CRITAL DETAIL OFFERED BY THE WRITTEN WORK. THE CREATIVE WORK SEEMS FINE...BUT WE NEED TO IMPROVE THE WRITTEN RESPONSES.

YOU LOT HAVE BEEN MAGNIFICENT THIS TERM. MUCH APPRECIATED. Ta.

DOVE ADVERTS: A useful resource for A2 Students.

Students may like to watch this incredible DOVE advert. Dove are continually challenging the unrealistic depictions of women that saturate our media. Below is a link to the BEAUTY PRESSURE advertisement and a link to a film that explores the construction of this advert:
Advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I
The making of..: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLty8Vm1TfM

OTHER DOVE ADVERTS:
EVOLUTION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
Any student interested in female representation or objectification may wish to explore how DOVE promotes its brand.

YEAR 12 LESSON SEVEN [22nd Oct 12]: Homework.

                                                                                                   


Students were introduced to the technology available within the media department and the students were asked to edit their first film. Footage captured at the recent trip to the National Media Museum in Bradford was used as content and students were asked to create a two or three minute film that captures the spirit of the trip and would be suitable for publication on the museum website. Work was good and when we meet after half-term we will complete this task. Students need to consider the nature of the soundtrack.
Homework: Enjoy being a teenager. We will be finishing the Bradford Media Museum edit when we return to school then we move straight into the 'Survival Guide' for the Sixth Form. The next few sessions all involve creating creative media so watch as much moving image as possible and consider how editing is used to shape meaning.
YOU LOT HAVE BEEN MAGNIFICENT THIS TERM. Ta.

YEAR 13 LESSON SEVEN [17th Oct 12]: Homework.

                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                         
Students discussed issues relating to the representation of women and were introduced to the results of a recent survey published in The Guardian on Monday that explored issues relating to women and the media. Click on link below to access article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/14/sexist-stereotypes-front-pages-newspapers

This moved into a consideration of how women are represented and the class were offered a couple of texts to provoke discussion. Click on links below to access texts:
Reebok Easy Tone Advert:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPfby-vdXSo
Lynx advert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfeVEAZkJqM
Banned Reebok advert advert:http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/1044244/

The class then considered the representation of War. Click on links below to access texts:
Call of Duty World at War Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQy1Zg2C80

Restrepo Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvUdruvbdmI

The aim of this task was to develop the critical skills appropriate for MEST3 Section A in the exam. The question that students were asked to consider was:

How is the experience of War represented within these two texts? 

Students were then asked to consider ideas for creating creative media.

HOMEWORK: Attempt the representation question and develop ideas for creative media. Next week we need to structure ideas in preparation for creating two/three films that explore issues relating to the impact of digital media. We need to develop narrative ideas before we begin filming so bring some ideas to the lesson next week. I will plan a 'conventional' lesson that I will deliver IF you lot fail to offer some decent ideas for the creative media. For example, if we are making a documentary, what are the questions that will navigate the viewer through the film? What questions should we ask and why? What are we trying to investigate? Give it some thought.

How great was it to see BR? GOOD LUCK BETH!! YOU ARE MISSED IN MEDIA WORLD. Hope you like the photo!