UEA Fly Festival Media Team

Media Team

Hello future journalists, bloggers and writers!

Want to interview top authors, produce articles, help make a short film, blog about live festival updates and receive free journalist training?


UEA are searching for 10 inspiring young people to be the eyes and ears of UEA’s FLY Festival from 11 – 14 July 2017. If you’re available for at least two of those days and you are in Year 9 – 13, they want to hear from you!

To apply click the link; https://www.uea.ac.uk/fly/get-involved/media-team

Example Response for levels 2-4

The booklet from OCR contains responses for the following clip;










http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/284844-as-level-exemplar-candidate-work-unit-g322.pdf


There is also examiners commentary about strengths and weaknesses for each response. It is worth looking at all of them.

Year 12 Practice Exam and Clip

G322 - Aspects of Representation

PowerPoint from today's lesson;

Tv drama from petefrasers






Playlist for TV Drama;

Year 12 Screening

Here are the links for today's lesson;




































http://moreyellow.com/work/mad-max

Gender Theory

The PowerPoint for today's lesson;

The Representation of Gender from Zoe Lorenz


Remember - Laura Mulvey is your key theorist for this. Other theorists to look at as part of your revision would be Liesbet van Zoonan and bell hooks for Feminist theory and Judith Butler for theories of gender performativity.




In general Stuart Hall and David Gauntlett - they will keep popping up.




Link for the Vimeo playlist I found is; https://vimeo.com/album/3059466

Upcoming Important Dates

 

Independent Tasks for DLD 12th January

Year 12.


Continue working on research and planning tasks. All of you have work you can be doing!


Remember, I am expecting to see analysis of three existing magazine covers this Friday so, if that is something you are missing, these should be a priority. After that, look back at the deadlines for this half term - what can you get ahead on? Look at the suggested task list below - is there anything on there you haven't done? If you have done everything on the list look for other blogs - here, here or here, for example - and see what other tasks they have. Note - THIS and THIS blog have some excellent research examples.


Task list;
Research into institution - who would produce your magazine and why?
Image manipulation of test shots with an explanation of what you were aiming for.
Draft layouts - either hand drawn or on computer.
Audience profiling - who is your magazine for? How will you engage their interest?
Genre research - what genre of music is your magazine? How will images and fonts used reflect this?
Character creation - who is your cover star? Create a back story which will help justify photo choices and generate article copy.
EVALUATIONS!!!


The only task you won't be able to do is your cover, contents and double page spread. Nothing else requires special access to the Macs or for me to be in the building. Despite what some of you have told your form tutors!!!


Year 13


You should each have something to be getting on with - either finishing research and planning for your music video/digipak/poster or working on evaluations. I suspect none of you have completed a fully storyboard for your video. This should therefore be a priority! Again, if you have done all the suggested tasks look for example blogs to inspire you. Blogs such as Caitlin's, this one, this one or this one are all worth a look.

G321 Final Agreed Deadlines

The following deadlines are as agreed and final!


6th January - any existing work which hasn't already been submitted.
13th January - analysis of three music magazine front covers.
20th January - analysis of three music magazine contents pages.
27th January - analysis of three music magazine double page spreads.
3rd February - your own cover and contents pages.
10th February - your own double page spread PLUS completed evaluations.


Remember the 10th is my birthday and the best birthday present you could give me is your work COMPLETED AND ON TIME!!!

Year 12 Mock Exam Section B Question

To help you prepare for the mock in the little time we have I am pre-issuing the section B question. Use this along with the case studies available on the o drive as part of your revision.


"To what extent has the internet played a significant role in the marketing and exchange of media products in the film industry?"


Your mock is next Thursday during the double. You will not get the full two hours but you are expected to answer on both sections. This means you will have slightly less time to respond to the questions. Be prepared for this.

TV Drama - A Brief Introduction

One of the first lessons we covered for the start of year 12 was identifying aspects of Television Drama. This is the exam topic for the end of year 12 and, although we won't be looking at it in depth just yet, I thought it was valid to start thinking about.

In the lesson we looked at types of TV Drama, how they appeal to specific audiences and how certain groups are represented. You were also set a task to watch an episode of a TV Drama of your choice and write a short blog post explaining what it was you watched, who it was aimed at and how you know and how representation is used.

I will be checking blogs and commenting on posts. To make my life easier can you make sure you follow the TNHA Media blog, that way I can locate you through the blog dashboard. You also need to be tagging your blogs so that you can find them easier. Anything related to the preliminary task should be tagged as such while any work on audience for TV Drama should be tagged audience, TV Drama and so on.

PowerPoint from the lesson;

Introducing tv drama_and_representation_for_g322_ocr_media_studies from ibz10

Cover Lesson November 3rd 2016

Read through the PowerPoint below - this covers all of the work you should, by now, have completed, along with examples and advice.


Once you have read it through you need to be working on improving/completing tasks. Currently nobody has done close to everything they should have so everybody will have something to be working on.


Any questions please email me.

G321 Revision from Charlotte Cowles

Example Work G321

Links for the two blogs we looked at today.

Analysis tasks;

http://6103racheljinksg321fp.blogspot.co.uk/2012_03_01_archive.html


Overall blog presentation;

http://hcronefoundationportfolio.blogspot.co.uk/



Coursework research and planning deadline is this Friday - the 21st - this is for everything you have done so far. There is time after half term to add test shots and other preparation tasks as you begin to put your magazine cover, contents and double page spreads together. Work should be submitted either via blog or email.

Year 12 Media Tasks

} Look at three college magazines and briefly analyse.

} Test shots for college magazine.

 

} Research into institution (see examples here)

} Image manipulation of test shots. Explain what you were trying to achieve.

} Plan for College magazine – cover and contents.

} Audience profiling for music magazine.

} Music magazine genre research.

} College magazine cover and contents (due no later than 4th October.)

} Blog/work marking dates – Tuesday 20th September.

Examplar Analysis

Ryan found this example piece of analysis which is worth a look. It also gives you another platform which you can use to present your work.



He also found this blog which is another excellent example of what to aim for;

https://robynlanphier.wordpress.com/

What to Write in the Exam - G322

This is the checklist you need to be using when preparing for your mock and for the summer exam;

G322 Institutions & Audiences - What to include in your Case Study from nctcmedia12

G322 Revision from M Taylor

Audience And Institutions Revision Pack from Belinda Raji

Year 12 Example Work and Deadlines

 Below is a link to a level 3 blog which is useful for guidance when producing your own research and planning;

http://laurasell.blogspot.co.uk/

You should be referring to example work while completing research and planning to give yourselves an idea of what tasks to include and the quality of analysis needed to achieve that level. As always you should strive to do better than the work you are looking at!

Your deadlines for G321 are as follows;

18th December for initial research and planning, this should cover you analysis of the cover, contents and double page spread, as well as your preliminary task.

12th February for all research and planning. This should include any improvements made to analytical work, audience and product research and mock ups of your proposed magazines.

24th March magazines final deadline. Any improvements to prior work and your own cover, contents and double page spread.

15th April final submission date for any revisions/improvements and evaluations.

Please note that all deadlines are non-negotiable.

AS G322 exam clips - useful for revising section A

Disney Article Link

http://filmdebate.co.uk/article/article-disney-own-family-entertainment/

If you are not using Disney, consider what subsidiaries your chosen company own and what this allows them to do.

Case Study Research

You need to make sure you have a solid understanding of synergy and convergence as well as linear and vertical integration.

The best way to do this is create a family tree for your case studies

E.G

As you do this you should be able to make both vertical and horizontal connections (horizontal would represent companies responsible for the same process e.g. prodution, while vertical demonstrates the different levels e.g. distibution.