Year 13 Media Studies Homework for Miss Davies Thursday 27th September

Answer these two questions about these two trailers:

2.  How do the clips represent violence? 

1.  Do you believe that the Media promotes violence?

Year 13- it's J.Haynes.
My first blog to you! Course work so far - you should all have an idea of your Critical Investigation area. Now you need to analyse your Primary text in detail - starting with Audience (but if you want to get ahead you will need evetually to have looked all Key Concepts - Genre, Instituion/ideology, Representation, narrative.) Use your AS knowledge and the newtheories that Miss Davies and me will go through with you.

Your first detailed analysis of audience is due Wednesday 3rd Oct. 1 side of A4 either blogged or emailed to me. Also don#t forget to start your bibliography - put it on your blog! Keep working! JHH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOQALHM8pg

Year 13 - please answer these two questions about this trailer.

How does the trailer use media language to engage the audience?

How does the trailer represent young people? 

Year 12 Work for this week.

Firstly, complete the challenge task if you have not already done so.

Secondly, post the link to the social network trailer on your blog and then analyse it; answering two out of the four questions from class. 

1.How does the trailer use techniques to glamorise the topic?

2.How does the trailer engage the audience? 

3.How is Mark Zuckerberg represented in the trailer?

4.What is communicated about facebook in the trailer?

Media in Action notes

Hello Year 13!

Please make sure that you complete your notes on Media in Action on your blog pages so that I can check and comment next week!

Thanks, Mrs M :)

YEAR 13 MESSAGE

Year 13 Message

Hello year 13s.  A small reminder that I am expecting to see all of your blogs up and running by tomorrow, and expecting you all to have THREE stories about things going on in the Media. 

Your homework for next week's lesson is to watch the trailer and answer the questions below.  You should spend 15 minutes on each question.

1.  How does the trailer use media language to engage it's target audience?   
2.  What sort of representations are created of young people?
3.  What do we learn about E4 from watching the trailer? 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sprSMdXK1MY

Year 12 Message

Hello year 12s - this is just a reminder about your challenge task this week.  You need to try and get yourself a press pack from a magazine.  I know it sounds daunting and scary and some of you are thinking you'd rather not call anyone up and speak to them - and that's fine, it's meant to be scary!  Go onto the magazine's website or onto google, and search for their press office.  Most magazines will have a team dedicated to queries like this.  When you get the number, give them a call and say something like:
"Hello, I'm an A Level Media Studies student (or tell a little white lie and say you're at University if you think it gives you more credibility!) and I am doing some research on your magazine.  I'm looking for additional information about your target audience and your reach (this just means how many people buy their magazine)  and I was wondering if you would be able to send me a press pack or something similar?  

The WORST thing that can happen is they say no!  They will never see your face and they will never know who you are.  Sometimes you have to scare yourself and challenge yourself to get ahead, and any job in the Media, and in many other industries, requires you to put yourself out there and do things like this.

If you cannot do it, come and find me before the lesson next week.  

Also, don't forget to post all of your work about your website onto the blog.  I'm looking for some analysis of the website as well as just pictures....

Miss Davies 

John Masefield Blog.  Year 12 and 13.

Hello all Media Studies students at John Masefield!  This blog is going to be the best way for us all to communicate between one another from now on.

Use it to:

• Post things that interest you in the Media
• Complete essays and assignments for your teachers.
• Record research for your case study.
• Record research for your coursework.

To start you off with making sure that you're in touch with all things Media.  Here are a few things to look at and read.

If you haven't already - you need to watch this film

http://youtu.be/lB95KLmpLR4






http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/10/armando-iannucci-bbc-fight-critics  -  interesting article about BBC.

Strictly Come Dancing 2012 lineup to include two Olympic medallists

Victoria Pendleton and Louis Smith among celebrities taking part in the BBC show alongside the likes of Jerry Hall and Sid Owen

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Victoria Pendleton has been confirmed as one of the contestants in Strictly Come Dancing 2012. Photograph: Ray Burmiston/BBC/PA

After weeks of speculation about which of Team GB's Olympic stars would be strutting their stuff on Strictly Come Dancing, the BBC has confirmed that medal winners Victoria Pendleton and Louis Smith will be among the celebrity line-up for this year's series.

Like every Olympic athlete, Pendleton, the gold-winning queen of the velodrome, and Smith, the gymnast who picked up individual silver on the pommel horse and team bronze, were facing a period of adjustment to their newfound fame after the London Games.

But for this pair it will not be their first brush with showbiz. Smith auditioned unsuccessfully for The X Factor in 2009, while Pendleton is no stranger to glossy magazine shoots and has starred in a TV ad for hair brand Pantene. She retired from cycling after London 2012, making no secret of her desire to take part in the hit BBC1 ballroom show, which returns on Saturday night.

They are two of the 14 stars confirmed to appear in this year's series, which will also include Sir Mick Jagger's former wife Jerry Hall, James Bond actor Colin Salmon and former children's TV presenter Johnny Ball, father of Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball.

Other celebrities being lined up for the usual mix of elation and humiliation include actor Sid Owen, best known for playing Ricky Butcher in EastEnders, former This Morning presenter Fern Britton, ex-Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley, Westlife's Nicky Byrne, Daybreak presenter Richard Arnold, and Tracy Beaker star Dani Harmer.
Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan follows in the dance steps of fellow cricketers Darren Gough and Mark Ramprakash by taking part in the show.
Ex-Girl's Aloud star Kimberley Walsh used Twitter to tell fans she was taking part. "Rehearsals have been so much fun but ouch ouch ouch," she said.
Pendleton and Smith are unlikely to be the only athletes to join the battle for Saturday night ratings this autumn. ITV also wants to cash in on the post-Olympics euphoria and the likes of Sir Chris Hoy, Jessica Ennis and Bradley Wiggins have reportedly been approached about being guest mentors on The X Factor, while other Team GB stars may turn up on I'm A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! later this year and Dancing on Ice in early 2013