Year 13: Media & Communication

Great documentary on Sunday Radio-4 about the search for a woman caught up in the Northern Ireland troubles. Good starting point for those of you who are thinking of taking realistic events and fictionalising them.

Tarred and Feathered



http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p1f4x

Year-13: Media Studies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/privacy

Lots of stories/info about PCC and issues of privacy
Worth downloading the case studies for future reference/exam practice

Year-13: Media & Communication

Friday play (last week): 'Vent'
Good for narrative structure and the use of non-diegetic sound
(Radiohead/ Kings Of Leon/ Patti Smith/ Crowded House etc)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ny6r4

Year 12 Media Studies: Preliminary Task

Year 12 Media & Communications: War of the Worlds (1953)

Representations of gender in War of the Worlds (1953)

Analyses should include references to film language:

• Sound (diegetic & non-diegetic)


• Camera (framing & movement)


• Mise-en-scene (including lighting)


• Editing
  

Year-13 Media & Communication: Research

Generating ideas for a radio play (3)
A rough (but clear) outline of what each storyline will be in terms of:
Theme
Content
Form
Narrative Structure

Basic research
Conduct basic research into all of the ideas
Questionnaires
Surveys
Interviews

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

You should be aiming to reach a broad demographic.
Around 50 people will be enough for each person
Your research is due in on Monday 16th. November (P-5)

Y13 Media Studies: Contemporary Media Regulation

‘A brief history of moves to improve press standards’Richard Keeble

Investigate post Calcutt Report and then produce a timeline of significant events and occurrences to the PCC

What key developments have there been in the development of the regulation of the press?

Y10 Media Studies: Mise-en-scene

How have the elements of Mise-en-scene been used to create meaning in this still?

Y12 Media: Thriller Conventions

What conventions of the thriller genre can you identify at the beginning of Face/Off?
How are the roles of the protagonist and antagonist established?
How is film language used to create meaning?

Y13: Contemporary Media Regulation

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article6881055.ece

Contemporary Media Regulation: a free press?
•Which codes of practice did the newspaper(s) infringe?
•Does another newspaper have a right to create news by taking the so-called moral high ground?
•What ethical, moral or legal issues have been raised by the Stephen Gately story?