Click on link to access a Nick Robinson article from BBC online news:
Friday, 15 July 2011
A NEW ERA FOR POLITICS AND THE MEDIA?
Click on link to access a Nick Robinson article from BBC online news:
Saturday, 9 July 2011
MORE NEWS OF THE WORLD MATERIAL.
THIS STORY IS VAST. STUDENTS SHOULD BE TAKING NOTE OF ALL MEDIA RELATING TO THIS ISSUE.FEEL FREE TO PERUSE ALL THE ARTICLES POSTED ON FISHYMEDIA THAT RELATE TO RUPERT MURDOCH AND THE PHONE HACKING STORY.
This whole debate is perfect for Year 13 coursework.
Steve Coogan interview on BBC Newsnight 8th July 11:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14090499
The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger interview with Kirsty Wark:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
Jeremy Paxman interviews ex-NOW deputy features editor Paul McMullan:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9531686.stm
David Cameron's response on Channel Four News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYboUCk6op8
Ed Milliband interview via SKY news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeNu7ZZf9zw&feature=related
Hugh Grant's comment on BBC Question Time:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14073260
Thursday, 7 July 2011
THE CLOSURE OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD.
This is such a MASSIVE media issue. Students need to be aware of why this story is dominating the media. Year 13 will demand that students are aware of contemporary media issues and debates and this story is HUGE. This media issue links to issues such as media and democracy, media and regulation, media and the law, media and issues relating to personal privacy, the power of Newscorp and Rupert Murdoch, media and political influence, representation, the power of advertising revenue, media and celebrity.....this story engages a whole mass of media issues and debates.
Below are a series of links that relate to this story.
BBC Radio Four:
BBC online:
Excellent Hugh Grant interview:
David Wooding interview:
The Guardian:
The Daily Mail:
Sky News:
Channel Four News:
YEAR 12 LESSONS 29/30: Homework.
Students were offered lesson 29 to create footage for a 60 second film. The two hours of lesson 30 were an editing session.The aim of lesson 30 was for students to edit the material captured in lesson 29. Big thanks to all students as the results are impressive. The final lesson next Tuesday will be a further editing session within which students need to complete the final edit of the films.
We shall then watch all the films.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
YEAR 12 LESSONS 27/28: Welcome Back Media Fiends.
If you are unaware of the above photograph, you are not aware of contemporary media issues and debates. Where is this? What is happening? Why has this photograph provoked media debate? IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT STUDYING MEDIA IN YEAR 13, YOU MUST BE AWARE OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA ISSUES AND DEBATES.Be aware of how The Glastonbury Festival uses digital media this coming weekend. What will this tell us about digital technology?
The two sessions after the AS exams were designed to provide a flavour of Year 13. We have discussed the impact of digital media and in the last lesson I showed clips from the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle and the 2008 film Kidulthood in an attempt to generate a discussion relating to Representation.
Click on link to access a beginner's guide to internet censorship. Do other countries offer the same digital freedom that we take for granted?
http://fishymediaresources.blogspot.com/2010/10/beginners-guide-to-internet-censorship.html
The two sessions after the AS exams were designed to provide a flavour of Year 13. We have discussed the impact of digital media and in the last lesson I showed clips from the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle and the 2008 film Kidulthood in an attempt to generate a discussion relating to Representation.
Click on link to access a beginner's guide to internet censorship. Do other countries offer the same digital freedom that we take for granted?
http://fishymediaresources.blogspot.com/2010/10/beginners-guide-to-internet-censorship.html
The key resource to digest BEFORE Year 13 is the BBC documentary The Virtual Revolution. THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL RESOURCE. Click on the link below to access this documentary:
The e-media linked to this documentary is a monumental resource and contains interviews with a host of media critics. Students need to be aware of the views of Andrew Keen and Clay Shirky and their extended interviews are available via this site.
All the key media issues and debates relating to the impact of digital media can be found on this page. It is a detailed and essential Y13 resource.
Here is a fishymedia link to Shirky and Keen:
Also...this documentary is a key resource. This is a recent American documentary titled The Digital Nation. It is fantastic. WATCH IT!
Obviously, if students want to know about the content of the Year 13 course, all my lessons with the current Year 13 are still available to peruse on fishymedia. Fill your media boots.
HOMEWORK: Next week students will be creating 60/90 second films so you need to bring some IDEAS and props to help create your film. Some of the titles we discussed in the last lesson were...Happy...Smile...Stress Head and The Mythical Chair. Students will be expected to edit their film in a creative manner using all the editing options provided by the software. Next week is a purely creative and technical lesson so you must bring some ideas to E2.
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
YEAR 13 LESSON TWENTY NINE [25th May 11]: Homework.
The final lesson. So that's it folks! Revision needs to be extensive and precise. This final lesson was all about revision guidance. Make sure you are capable of discussing an institution that has flourished in the digital age, and are able to refer to institutions that have struggled to adapt to the demands of new digital media. Why have they struggled? The BBC...Napster....Murdoch's paywall...you know what you need to revise. It is all on the A3 sheet I gave you in this lesson. If you revise all these areas, you will be fine.
GOOD LUCK FIENDS. YOU ARE A GREAT BUNCH. GET REVISING.
Any problems, pop into school or e-mail me at the usual address.
If I had had enough money I would have bought you all this wonderful and dazzling gift that I recently spotted in Bridlington. However I didn't have the 50p required to purchase half-a- dozen D O'D plates with matching D O'D mug! Shame.
MLR.
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
YEAR 13 LESSON TWENTY EIGHT [18th May 11]: Homework.
Students attempted a task that was a 'fusion' of MEST 3 Section A and B. The two texts used were the trailer for Tim Hetherington's RESTREPO and the mobile phone footage of the police attack on Ian Tomlinson that was published in the online Guardian. Click on link to access both texts:
After a class discussion the class attempted three questions in 50 minutes:
1. How do the two media products represent violence?
2.How has new digital media transformed our ability to consume information?
3.What is the appeal to audiences of texts like RESTREPO? You can refer to other texts that you have studied throughout the year.
The answer to this question demands reference to the U and G theory and Dyer's Utopian Solutions theory.
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