Blog list

Spring Term 2A

30) Daily Mail front cover evaluation LABEL - NEWS, CONSTRUCTION, REFLECTION
31) News PPE Dirt sheet LABEL - NEWS, LIAR, REFLECTION
32) Jungle book student workbook LABEL - FILM, INDUSTRY
33) Jungle book essay questions LABEL - FILM, INDUSTRY
34) Jungle Book class notes LABEL - FILM, INDUSTRY
35) Jungle Book construction LABEL - FILM, CONSTRUCTION
36) Jungle Book reflection questions LABEL - FILM, CONSTRUCTION, REFLECTION

Spring Term 2B

37) Radio Google slides to include: LABEL - RADIO, INDUSTRY, AUDIENCE
(January 27 setlist from 630-10 with important areas highlighted)

• OCR fact sheet interpretation
• Radio essay questions

38) Radio construction - LABEL - RADIO, CONSTRUCTION 
39) Radio notes from lessons/ look at links on first few slides and take notes LABEL - RADIO, INDUSTRY, AUDIENCE

40) Radio construction

41) Radio reflection
42) Minecraft presentations - LABEL - VIDEO GAMES, INDUSTRY, AUDIENCE
43) Minecraft construction - VIDEO GAMES, CONSTRUCTION, REFLECTION
44) Big Issue notes LABEL - MAGAZINES, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION

45) Big Issue front cover analysis using mcpaps, clift, contexts and question list - MAGAZINES, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION
45) Big Issue comparison and essay MAGAZINES, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION
46) DIRT 2B - ASSESSMENT, REFLECTION
47) Advertising Tasks - Lucozade ADVERTISING, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION
48) Advertising Tasks -  Old Spice ADVERTISING, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION
49) Advertising Tasks - Shelter ADVERTISING, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION

Summer Term 3A (lockdown)

50) CBR music video analysis 10 screenshots, fill in table  LABEL MUSIC VIDEO, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION

51) Guetta Titanium analysis 10 screenshots, fill in table  LABEL MUSIC VIDEO, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION

52) Music video essay LABEL MUSIC VIDEO, LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION

53) NEA research tasks 1-10 LABEL RESEARCH, PLANNING ON NEA BLOG

54) Media in the time of Covid LABEL NEWS

55) Newspaper revision booklet LABEL NEWS

56) Completed prelim task LABEL PRELIM ON NEA BLOG

57) Prelim evaluation

58) Final end of year DIRT sheet! 

Autumn Term 1A

LABEL INTRODUCTION
1) media moodboard
2) youtube video apply LIAR
3) summer homework

LABEL LANGUAGE
4) poster analyse genre using DISTINCT
5) upload photos and apply distinct and genre
6) semiotics task - find poster and discuss denotation/connotation like Glee poster
7) premiere practise - describe task and what transitions/effects you played around with LABEL CONSTRUCTION (for any editing task)

LABEL LANGUAGE
8) camera shots video - what are the uses of these shots - when would you use an ECU for eg. Add to your blog post.
9) 27th Sept HWK Mise En Scene - CLAMPS upload your notes and analyse the five adverts
10) Sound - MCDOVED find your own clip and analyse what, how and why sound was used
11) Upload your textual analysis notes camera, mise en scene, editing, sound
12) 4th October HWK Boyz N the Hood - https://gbhsmedia2019.blogspot.com/2019/09/camera-mise-en-scene-sound-and-editing.html

LABEL REPRESENTATION 
13) Find three countertypes of representations for DR CAGES
14) 11th October Flipped learning Representation pack - upload to google docs and then onto your blog
15) Upload audience notes LABEL AUDIENCES
16)  Stuart Hall, George Gerbner, Albert Bandura, Steve Neale LABEL THEORY
17) Upload industries presentation - add feedback and improve presentations LABEL INDUSTRIES

Autumn Term 1B

18) Adverts uploaded onto blog and advert evaluation LABEL CONSTRUCTION, REFLECTION
19) HWK Newspaper research - three worksheets answers on blog LABEL NEWSPAPERS,  INDUSTRY
20) Analysis of a front cover - LABEL NEWSPAPERS, REPRESENTATION
21) First assessment uploaded and DIRT sheet completed and uploaded LABEL ASSESSMENT, REFLECTION
22) Newspaper Language Conventions - Broadsheet, Mid market, Tabloid conventions table LABEL
NEWSPAPERS, LANGUAGE
23)Type up newspaper notes NEWSPAPERS, LANGUAGE
24) News topics presentations NEWSPAPERS, LANGUAGE
25) Newspaper/website comparison NEWSPAPERS, LANGUAGE
26) Newspaper representations google slides  NEWSPAPERS, REPRESENTATION
27) Newspaper audiences NEWSPAPERS, AUDIENCE
28) December 12th email NEWSPAPERS, INDUSTRY
29) Daily Mail front cover CONSTRUCTION

The Big Issue

Media Language and Representation exam

Media language: 

• How the media through their forms, codes, conventions and techniques communicate meanings
  genre conventions of camera, editing, sound and mise-en-scene 
• How are these elements used together to construct the media form so that it looks the way it does? 
• How are these elements organised or combined in a certain way to communicate meaning in the set product? 
• How does the genre develop? 
• How does the content incorporate the viewpoints and ideology of the producer?

Media Representation:

• Which different groups, individuals and or events are presented or shown in each set product? 
• What positive or negative stereotypes are evident and why? 
• What messages and values are communicated about different groups, individuals and or events?
• What conclusions can we make about the representations? 
• Which groups are misrepresented and under-represented? 
• How are representations constructed as real? 

Minecraft Construction

Minecraft Construction Task

Every successful media construction requires research, planning, production and evaluation.

Even though sales are stronger than ever, Minecraft are trying to encourage all those young Fortnite fans to fall in love with the game as much as the older teens. You have been hired to come up with some merchandise ideas for Minecraft targeting both genders and aimed at a 7-16 audience.

Create a google slide or similar and include:

Research
What has been some of most successful merchandise aimed at this age group so far. eg Star Wars, Toy Story, Frozen

What other Minecraft merchandise is available currently? Show some examples.

Planning
Look at some print adverts and decide what the conventions are. Plan a design or describe your idea.

Production
Choose the programme you'd like to make your product on and design your product making sure you believe in its success and that it fits print advert conventions.

Evaluation

What was the task you were assigned?

What programme did you use to complete your task?

What tools did you use from your programme to create your task ie font websites, crop, colour changes etc?

What were the biggest obstacles to completing your task?

Describe your production and why you chose the various text headings and images?

What was your initial feedback? What did others say about your production?

Identify what went well and with hindsight what would you do differently?

12A Minecraft

12E Minecraft

Minecraft Marketing

Marketing minecraft. from Great Baddow High School Media

Minecraft latest articles

https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/7/20952214/minecraft-most-important-game-of-the-decade-2010

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/minecraft-update-patch-notes/

Radio questions

• Explain why popular music programmes struggle to gain recognition as Public Service Broadcasting. Refer to the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show to support your answer. In your answer you must: Explain how political, cultural and economic contexts influence the status of popular radio music programming. 
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Minecraft

Radio construction

Updated radio 1 news and examples

Greg has been known for his stunts such as https://inews.co.uk/culture/radio/hide-and-seek-radio-1-greg-james-nick-grimshaw-clues-where-when-497868

and #passthepasty
https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&rlz=1C1GCEV_enGB880GB880&sxsrf=ALeKk02E6lYbWniZm7GZbdMfAS0jpPoiHQ:1582546045923&q=pass+the+pasty&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgs6G3k-rnAhWGQEEAHaLCBiMQBSgAegQICxAn&biw=1600&bih=789


This is where we were last summer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/rajar-2019-q2

Then this latest surprising announcement: https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a30785851/bbc-radio-1-lowest-listenership-greg-james-zoe-ball-rajar-ratings/

Then this after BAFTA stunt:

https://www.google.com/search?q=whosegotgreg&rlz=1C1GCEV_enGB880GB880&oq=whosegotgreg&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.4733j1j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Radio intro

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z2s97hv/revision/1

Radio 1 Breakfast show

Radio 1

Radio 1 breakfast show lesson 1 from Great Baddow High School Media

Radio 1 show fact sheet

OCR Radio 1 factsheet from Great Baddow High School Media

BBC Breakfast Show

Greg James

Radio 1 targeting audience from Great Baddow High School Media

Jungle Book practical task

PRACTICAL JUNGLE BOOK TASK INSTRUCTIONS due Friday 31st January

You will be producing a 2-3 minute interview with the marketing manager and producer of the new Jungle Book. If there are three of you the producer and the marketing manager gets interviewed, if only two then take turns playing each of the roles and interview each other. The aim of these interviews is to get your audience to be excited about watching the film, it hasn't come out yet. The producer will talk about the exciting combination of actors and effects and the marketing manager can discuss all the ways they intend to promote the film. Go through your google slides and take notes of all the production and marketing techniques and devise questions for these.

Break it up into sections so that the interviewer can say let's take a look. Give us much information an be as interesting as you possibly can be and try to look at the interviewer when you speak. Maybe memorise a couple of lines at a time and then pause.

- Shot reverse shot (presenter and marketing manager) in the green room or with green sheet so you can insert Jungle Book backgrounds.
- Have a look at some film interviews, watch behind the scenes jungle book CGI clips
- Use your presentations, practise essays and fact sheets for the best bits
- Marketing and Distribution questions and answers do timings - what are the most important aspects of the Jungle Book marketing campaign. Include gimmicks, merchandise and social media.
- Find the clips and images you need to show in the background
- The Jungle Book trailer is saved in the shared media drive
- Find somewhere quiet to film with a blank background and think about lighting

Recommended timings:
Day 1 write script - watch clips and interviews and come up with a list of questions
Day 2 film plan, location, set up, rehearse lines, print scripts
Day 3 film
Day 4 film and edit
Day 5 edit and upload onto blog FRIDAY 31ST JANUARY 

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/director-jon-favreau-reveals-secrets-making-jungle-book/story?id=38426455

• http://www.animationxpress.com/index.php/animation/spanishjungle

• https://corporate.univision.com/corporate/press/2016/04/18/the-new-york-times-disneys-savvy-marketing-of-the-jungle-book/

• https://www.reelnreel.com/the-jungle-book-movie-youtube-marketing-success-strategy/

• https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Disneys-marketing-of-The-Jungle-Book-remarked-upon-as-savvy-and-innovative-What-did-they-do-differently

Disney JB sand sculpture

Jungle Book Essay Structure

Jungle Book OCR fact sheets

Jungle Book

Film institutions and audiences from Great Baddow High School Media

Film institutions and audiences lesson 2 focus on Disney from Great Baddow High School Media

Disney latest updates

• https://qz.com/1771003/2019-was-disneys-biggest-year-ever-2020-will-be-its-most-important/
• https://nofilmschool.com/disney-2019-box-office?fbclid=IwAR0rpBthXOtvljqgZyfu407qHh6SBgH05kbCvB9gjtj17jABZWH1j0DOU-E

Shortlisted Daily Mail covers

Well done everyone for your latest constructions, we (teachers and 13s) narrowed it down to the top 6 and the OCR media teachers across the country voted. We got over 50 responses at the weekend and the most votes went to Ecoli, Mutants and Flames. CONGRATULATIONS!

 

Daily Mail front cover evaluation

Term 1B Mock up of Daily Mail cover evaluation

Your front cover should have the News and Construction labels. Write up individually into a paragraph. Label REFLECTION, NEWS


1) What was the task you were given and who was your target audience?

2) What research did you undertake and what did you find were some of the typical conventions of a Daily Mail front cover - layout, types of stories, fonts

3) Which Daily Mail cover did you use as your main source? Insert. What are your observations from this source?

4) Which areas did you find most challenging?

5) What was you initial feedback? What did others say about your production? How successful was do you think it is?

6) Identify what went well and with hindsight what you do to improve/do differently.

7) In the exam you will be analysing newspaper front covers. In producing this cover, are there any areas that you hadn't noticed before? What have you learnt from completing this task?

Daily Mail front cover

• CLICK HERE AND STUDY THE LAYOUT DAILY MAIL FRONT PAGES
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• WATCH MR BOWERS AND WRITE A LIST OF THE HARDER AND SOFTER NEWS STORIES AND CHOOSE WHICH ONES YOU WANT AND WHERE THEY WILL GO

CREATE YOUR OWN DAILY MAIL FRONT COVER AND WIN DAILY MAIL FRONT COVER COMPETITION IF YOURS IS THE BEST

MAKE SURE YOUR BLOG IS UP TO DATE FOR REVISION AND THEN -

HAVE AN AMAZINGLY RESTFUL CHRISTMAS.

Newspaper representation

Newspaper revision

Newspaper Audiences figures 2019

News websites compared with print

• Compare top news stories in print and online (DM/Guardian) discuss news values and hard/soft news. Find a news story they are both reporting on and comment on the way it's being reported.
• The news story that you've chosen, look on social media and see how it's being reported and compare
• Look at the various links, choose a couple to look at that may not be part of the print editions
• Look for audience comments
• Click on the social media and scan over any interesting comments on articles

What the exam board want you to be able to discuss is:

Detailed discussion of the role of print and online technology and news consumption and response by comparison of the audience address and possible audience needs met by the differences in the print and online editions and social media feeds of the Guardian and Daily Mail/MailOnline 

Find examples from today's website:

 • Research into differences in audience responses to, uses of, and needs fulfilled by online and print news, with special reference to the Guardian and Daily Mail/ MailOnline 

 • Investigation of specialist, perhaps global, audiences served by online news (e.g. news for groups defined by a special interest, e.g. birdwatchers, or a shared identity, e.g. Britons living abroad). 

• Researching contemporary examples of citizen journalism and participation

Once you've recorded the videos, upload onto youtube channel. 

Online newspaper task

Have a look at the Daily Mail and Guardian front pages (you will also record these)

This activity looks at online newspaper generic conventions. Compare the print and online editions of a number of newspapers – see whether or not they fit the description of the similarities and differences in the table below:

Broadsheet newspaper print conventions also followed in online home pages	How broadsheet newspaper online editions are different to the print editions
·         the home page of the website prioritises hard news stories towards the top of the home page ·         the same traditional masthead is used as in the print edition ·         most home pages use a four column layout which fills the homepage with news, connoting seriousness ·         most typography is serif, connoting formality.	·         more extensive use of colour ·         opinion, lifestyle and sports pieces appear on the home page, these would not appear on print broadsheet front pages ·         some use of sans-serif fonts.
Tabloid newspaper print conventions also followed in online home pages	How tabloid newspaper online editions are different to the print editions
·         lifestyle, ‘showbiz’ and human interest stories are prioritised towards the top of the home pages ·         fonts are sans-serif ·         use of saturated colour, especially red ·         photography dominates the home pages ·         the language register is more informal ·         the red-top tabloids all use the same red masthead as the print newspaper.	·         little use of banner headlines ·         the larger number of headlines connotes more ‘newsiness’ than the print front page ·         most headlines are not capitalised (except in the Sun) ·         the home page layout is generally less photograph/image and headline dominated than the print front page ·         the large number of headlines means that some hard news stories are covered on the home page that would not appear on the front page of the print newspaper.

Note why you think there are differences between the print and online editions of the newspapers. How much is due to the technology itself?    

Semiotic Analysis of a front cover

Advert constructions

Newspaper language

News intro and language from Great Baddow High School Media

Advert reflection

What was the task you were assigned?

What programme did you use to complete your task?

What tools did you use from your programme to create your task ie font websites, crop, colour changes etc?

What were the biggest obstacles to completing your task?

Describe your production and why you chose the various text headings and images?

What was your initial feedback? What did others say about your production?

Identify what went well and with hindsight what would you do differently?

Adverts due on your blog - Nov 8

Practical assessment autumn 1a from Great Baddow High School Media

Industries presentations

Audience

Intro to audience from Great Baddow High School Media

Industry presentations

You will be assigned groups and particular area of industry and share the research and presentation. Create a google slide you can share in each group and add the following information.

Overview of  Film, LFTVD, Radio, UK Newspapers, Video Games 

1. Overview of the industry
2. Largest companies that run the industry
3. Top 2018 films, lftvd, video games, newspapers, radio
4. Who are the target audiences? Look at ages
5. What pleasure does it offer its audiences?
6. How can audiences access this media?
7. Look at websites/social media/ fan sites and give egs of audience interaction
8. Narrow down to the topics we're studying - Disney, Stranger Things/D83, Radio 1, Guardian and Daily Mail, Minecraft
9. How is your industry regulated?

Representation

Representation from Great Baddow High School Media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48628678

Camera, Mise En Scene, Sound and Editing

Lots of good in depth textual analysis of film language from Yale university

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFUKRTFhoiA



Film language Analysis hwk

BOYZ IN THE HOOD AND GHOST SHIP

 

This clip is excellent for all the areas you have studied up until now - symbols, denotation and connotation, narrative, representation and audience. It is also great for DISTINCT. Write an intro on these for Boyz in the Hood and then:

Please analyse in terms of how camera, mise en scene, editing and sound give meaning to this clip.

Remember:

Camera - FAM
Mise En Scene - CLAMPS
Sound - MCDOVED
Editing - STOPS



Watch the first six minutes and apply your knowledge of camera, sound, editing and mise en scene to textually analyse the clip and the meaning that it created.
In your answer consider:

• semiotics/symbolism in a lot of the shots for eg the Stop sign
• Sound / music, dialogue and sound effects
• What is the clip saying about race, how?
• What have these children seen that you wouldn't expect them to have seen at their age?
• How does the shot go from street to classroom?
• What are the pictures on the wall?

Matrix  opening sequence consider: - colour, binary oppositions, male/female - good vs evil



UP Consider how they show the passage of time, sound, mise en scene and camera.



CAPE FEAR - camera and mise en scene

Sound

Media key terms sound new from MissConnell

Adverts to analyse

Mise En Scene

 Try these body language and facial tests. Are you any good at reading facial expressions and body language?

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/take_quiz/ei_quiz

https://testyourself.psychtests.com/bin/transfer

MISE EN SCENE ACRONYM - CLAMPS - costume, lighting, actors, makeup, props, setting

You are going to create a new presentation account with emaze. Go to www.emaze.com and analyse 

Now try it with these print adverts:

Adobe Premiere practise

Once you have completed your practise edit, you shall be exporting it and uploading it onto your blog. Add an explanation of the process and tools used to achieve your final product.

Camera

Semiotics

Semiotics from Great Baddow High School Media

Genre

Genre task from Great Baddow High School Media

Steve Neale says - genres may be dominated by repetition, but are also marked by difference, variation and change the idea that genres change, develop, and vary, as they borrow from and overlap with one another (Hybrid genre for eg. Scary Movie, Hot Stuff, Zombieland...)

Blogger

Get a gmail address

Go to blogger.com ( I will do a presentation to show you)

Please upload the following: summer tasks (you may have to take pictures), media moodboard show pics of your favourite media and a youtube video where you apply LIAR to it. 3 things on your blog. 

Add the label intro onto your blog on the right where it says label

Intro to media

Summer tasks

Introduction to the course:

Welcome to Media Studies! Over the 2 years of A Level Media Studies course you will be studying the following subject areas:

Language

Industries

Audience

Representation

Each of these areas covers a range of different skills. You will be looking at these areas and learning how:

• The media represents events, issues, individuals and social groups in different ways.

• To create your own media products, using industry standard software.
• To develop your research and analysis skills through the study of a range of media forms such as magazines, posters, film and television.

• To analyse how the media uses conventions and techniques to create meaning for an audience.

Different media are targeted to specific audiences.


To evaluate professional media to understand how the producers and directors aim to make an audience think or feel.

Summer Tasks:

Summer Task 1 - Media Language (how the media through their forms, codes, conventions and techniques communicate meanings)

Analysis of why a director/producer has made certain decisions in creating a product is a key part of Media Studies. Write a 500 words analysis of ONE aspect of the Deutschland ‘83 trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb0yFr2jVAU and discuss the director’s use of camera, editing, sound and mise en scene (costumes, lighting, actors, makeup, props, setting) etc

Summer Task 2 - Media Industries (how the media industries’ processes of production, distribution and circulation affect media forms and platforms)

Research Task:

When talking about the film industry, what do we mean by the 'Big Six'? Why might this become the Big 5.

Who are the 'Big Six'? What other companies do they own?

Find an example of a major media product that each of the 'Big Six' have produced within the last year, and research key information about these productions (budget, cast (if relevant), advertising campaign, release dates etc.)

Summer Task 3 - Audience (how the media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them and how audiences become producers themselves)

Choose any magazine front cover or film poster - annotate and analyse how the product is tailored and targeted for a particular audience.

Summer Task 4 - Representation (how media forms portray events, issues, individuals and social groups)

One of the key principles underpinning the A Level Media Studies course is the concept of representation and the role the media plays in shaping our understanding of the world. Media theorist David Gauntlett argues that:

"Popular media has a significant but not entirely straightforward relationship with people's sense of gender and identity." ('Media, Gender and Identity', 2002)

Find a front cover of the Guardian and the Daily Mail from a major event, for eg the Trump visits or Boris this past week that show the role the media plays in shaping our views and opinions on any one group in our society. Is this representation positive or negative? https://www.thepaperboy.com/uk/uk-top-10-newspapers.cfm


Look at advertising analyse the banned Are you beach body ready and compare with This Girl Can advertising campaign.

(e.g. specific groups within gender, age, disability, regional identity, ethnicity, sexuality, class/status etc.)

REMINDERS:

If you need help – there are countless tutorials on the internet, and the research skills you develop whilst finding information will also be invaluable for your Media A Level! Feel free to email with any questions kbr@gbhs.co.uk