Thursday 6th July

I am not in today to teach you period 5. You do not have a cover teacher because I do not want you in a classroom. I would like you to go out and do some filming. Play around with techniques and shot types, think of a director/auteur and try to emulate their style. Most importantly, have fun with it.

I will look at what you have got next lesson.

Apologies for missing another lesson guys.

Pre-Summer Task List

Research different blog sites and styles of blogs.


This will not take long – you used blogs last year and know what you need - blogger/blogspot is very reliable, wix is a bit flash but temperamental, Wordpress doesn’t work on the Macs but is fine on other PCs. You can use the same platform or even the same blog as last year.


If using the same blog address, archive your year 12 work Set up your blog and get the address to me – you have until the end of term to do this.


First entry: statement of intent; who you are, what you are doing, what you did for last year’s coursework, what you hope to achieve through the project?


Invite classmates to follow you – this will help you gather evidence of audience feedback


What do existing texts in your chosen area look like?
What elements make up a typical example?
Do some research and add it to your blog as a short post


Come up with an idea: NOT just for a your main task, but for the whole package


Post your initial thoughts on your blog – you can always change them later.


This all needs to be done before the summer - DEADLINE 19th July.

Audience Theory and Beyond

Presentation from today's lesson. Make sure you have read though and made notes on theories relevant to your productions. There are aspects from each one which could relate to both music videos and short films. If anyone is still looking at computer games all but the slide on auteurs is relevant.

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PowerPoints from Today's Lesson

Below are the two PowerPoint presentations covered in today's lesson.

For those of you who attended the lesson you should make sure you have thought about the task on the last slide of the second presentation, as you will be expected to lead the discussions for your groups.

If you missed the lesson today then you will need to read through both of these so that you are aware of expectations, tasks and deadlines.

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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