http://www.leavemethewhite.com/

This site is great for letting students loose on a whole film as they have to choose what they think are the parts of the film they should be drawing on (dependent on what they are writing about).

Check out the Film & Lighting Course by TAP | White Bus.

http://www.coexist.org.uk/tap-courses-by-subject.html

This course is excellent value and comes highly recommended by Vicky Casson.

Click on the link below to explore CreativeMediaLinks.com

http://creativemedialinks.com/

Media and Cultural Theory by Dr Stephen Hill and B. Fenner is an ideal guidebook for undergraduates studying a range of Media and Cultural Studies courses.

Covering over thirty theorists, the book is organised into ten chapters, each focusing on a specific theoretical strand.

Alongside more traditional forms like film, television and music, the book also makes reference to Facebook, YouTube and MySpace.

For the visual learner, each chapter is...

Click on the link to join us and start networking - it’s free. :)

Aber.ac.uk or MCS Daniel Chandler’s outstanding website for Media Studies at Aberystwyth University. Good for developing an understanding of theory.

Acland Burghley Media Studies website

Allisonmedia.net An excellent site for those wishing to tackle both KS4 and KS5 Media Studies

Auteur produce tailor-made revision guides for Media Studies that are comprehensive, constructive and challenging.

BBC Learning - Media Studies

Collins Education...

An Introduction to Sitcoms

Frome College on Sitcoms

A List of British Sitcoms

Buster Tests: Sitcom Basics

BBC on Britain’s Best Sitcoms

North East Wales Institute of HE on Sitcoms

ScreenOnline on Sitcoms

Television Heaven on Galton & Simpson

Teletronic.co.uk on The Good Life

Writing Sitcoms

Robin Kelly on Sitcom Writing

The Stage Guide to Sitcom Writing

Sitcom Downloads & Other Resources

FunTrivia Quizzes on Sitcom

Kings’ School...

BBC on Voices around the UK

Moodle Open source virtual learning environment.

Gamemaker

GLBasic for Gamers

3D Adventure Studio

RPGMAKER XP

MyGameBuilder

Skillset The national coordinator for Media careers training.

Guardian Unlimited A University Guide to Media Studies and related subjects

Mediauk.com

Prospects.ac.uk on Publishing and Journalism

Retouching Photoshop Tutorial on Basic Model Retouching

Teach-ict.com An excellent source of advice for those wishing to brush up on their computing skills.

Media and Cultural Theory Guidebook by Stephen Hill and B. Fenner

Mediaed.org on Audience Theory

Popcultures on Theorists

Theory.org.uk David Gauntlett’s ingenious and imaginative approach to social theory and popular culture.

Theoryhead.com David Gauntlett’s guide to Media Studies

Wikipedia on Film Theory

Aber.ac.uk on The Grammar of TV & Film

BFI Media Glossary

Changingminds.org on Interpellation

Media Awareness Network A Glossary of Terms

Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences

Berkeley Uni on Storyboarding

Fashionerfilms Storyboarding Example for a Movie

Hawaii Uni on Creating a Storyboard for Video Production

Simple Storyboarding and Examples

Thirteen Ed Online - Making Movie Storyboards

Videomaker - From Shot Lists to Storyboards

VTK Productions - How to Draw Storyboards

Wikipedia on Storyboards

Facebook // The new MySpace

MySpace A social networking website

TES Community / Message Board
Typepad Latest blogging resources.

Simpsons Archive

Sitcom.co.ukk Masses on history of right through to those currently in production and even links to getting tickets to watch recordings of sitcoms

Sitcom Guide Who Killed the British Sitcom

BBC on SitComs

BFI on Teaching Sitcom

Gender & TV Situation Comedy - Northallerton College

Transparencynow.com Excellent media and communication studies site by Ken Sanes.

Educating for Justice Films presents SWEAT

Englishbiz on Semiotics and Representation

Genderads.com Good for researching the representation of gender in advertising

Hatads.org.uk Gender & Advertising - History of Advertising Trust

Justthink.org A closer look at media representations of social issues including democracy, health, violence, racism, role models and self-esteem.

Mediaed.org on Magazine Advertising and Gender

MIGS Mediterranean...

The Columbia Guide to Online Style

The Columbia Guide to Online Style (CGOS) by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (Columbia UP, 2006 ) presents a guide to locating, evaluating, translating, and using the elements of citation for electronically accessed sources in both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE). CGOS’s unique element approach makes this a useful reference book for citing electronic sources...

Radio 1

Radio 2

Radio 3

Radio 4

Radio 5

Posterwire.com Posters past and present…

Applausestore.com Find free tickets to see filmed tv shows and radio

Beonscreen.com is the UK’s no 1 site for enabling people to take part in their favourite tv shows. It has also revolutionised the way television researchers find participants/audiences/guests.

Urbis.org.uk in Manchester

The new Urbis Learning programme is designed to appeal to educators of children at both primary and secondary level, with some workshops appropriate for...

Nostalgia Central.com It’s Retro Heaven!

Futurelab.org.uk Excellent site focusing on the innovative use of technology in education.

Mediasnackers.com Interesting site - worth a browse.

MIT Communications Forum

NML Project

The New Media Literacies project (NML), funded by the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation, is developing a theoretical framework and hands-on curriculum for K-12 students that integrates new media tools into broader educational, expressive and cultural...

NEWI on Narrative in Media

Villains and Heroes - Narrative over News

Alluc.org Free films, series, ads - in fact, all you can see!

Newsfilm Online is planned to be one of the most exciting resources to be offered to Higher and Further Education in the UK. 3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive, is to be made available online in high quality format for teaching, learning and research. Newsfilm Online will be a gateway of unmatched richness to...

Digital Spy.co.uk Good site for latest entertainment and media news.

Media Guardian An excellent source of current information on Media, New Media and Jobs in the Media.

ABC.org.uk

This site provides consumer magazine data such as circulation figures, price, genre sales, etc.

Natmags.co.uk Monthly Circulation Figures Pick a magazine title and get info on brand positioning/ values, core buyer, ratecards, etc.

Logocities.org Logo Cities is an ongoing research/creation project addressing signage, branding and lettering in public space, with a particular focus on the city of Montréal.

Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising

British Library

Library of Congress (USA)

Englishbiz on Ideology

Online Journalism Review

Poynter Online ‘Everything you need to be a better journalist’

A History of Horror Films Some obscure sub-genres covered

Horror Film History An outstanding guide to the horror film genre across the decades by Karina Wilson

Horror Movie Trailers on eSplatter

Horror The Movie Contains most of the horror conventions in a condensed format.

Photography @ Temple University

David Bailey Photography

Dorothea Lange - Migrant Mother

Ferenc Ecseki Photography

Getty Images

Google Image Search Find online images using Google’s dedicated image search engine

Iconic Photo See iconic architectural photography

Mario Testino Photography

Monroe Gallery of Photography

Philippe Halsman Portrait Exhibition

The Art Institute of Chicago

Top Ten Most Iconic Photographs Blog

World Press...

Media History.com Find out about developments in the media through history.

Media in the USA - Global Issues

National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire

TV-Ark.org.uk The Online Television Museum

Genre Theory An Introduction by Daniel Chandler

Dafont.com

Flamingtext.com An excellent place to find some sophisticated and unique fonts to help you create impressive artefacts.

Andrew Moore / Universalteacher.org.uk Studying Feature Films

BFI or British Film Institute. An excellent site which incorporates an online media glossary.

BFI / BT Screenonline Archive Interactives

BFI Screenonline Tours

BFI Film and Media Schemes of Work

BFI Film and Media Studies Resources for Teachers and Students

BFI on Using Film in the Classroom

Cinemaspace - University of California, Berkeley

Film Underground

Film Analysis...

BBC Film Makers’ Guide

Behind the Camera

BFI on Shot Types - a pdf handout

Convivial.com on Video Production

Apple Education - Digital Content Creation

First Light Movies Want to make your first movie? Check this site out for practical advice + competitions you can enter.

Knowledgehound.com on Video Production

Top Ten Video tips - O’Reilly Media

The Guardian Guide to Making Video

Make your own movie with Moving Voices

Raindance Film...

QCA Examinations Timetable Online An excellent resource by Modernisation Online.

LoveFilm.com

Media & Film Studies Dictionary

FreeDictionary.com A free online dictionary, thesaurus and much more.

Universe Creation 101

Crime.netfirms.com

‘Welcome to my Crime Drama website. The principal aim of this site is to provide an online revision aid for my A2 students concerning the ME6 unit of the WJEC syllabus of Media Studies. At present the site is not conclusive of the unit and focuses only on crime in film.’

Crimeculture.com

Katpad on Gangster Genre

Community Media Association

Access to the media for people and communities. Welcome to the Community Media Association - bringing you news, information, services and a gateway to community media organisations in the UK and world wide.

Creative Archive Pilot

Creative Commons Licence

Intellectual Property Office on Copyright

Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended)

FACT Federation Against Copyright Theft

Theories of Humour on Wikipedia

BBC Comedy

British Comedy Guide

Filmsite on Types of Comedy

An Introduction to Genre Theory by Daniel Chandler

Wikipedia on Comedy

Wikipedia on Comedic Genres

The Citizenship Foundation is an independent charity which aims to empower individuals to engage in the wider community through education about the law, democracy and society

Channel 4

Channel 4 Talent

BBFC.org.uk Find out about film certification and censorship using this site.

SBBFC.org.uk Students’ British Board of Film Classification This site is aimed at media and film studies students and teachers covering the topics of Media Regulation and Censorship in the UK. The site was designed and is maintained by the British Board of Film Classification.

TMAP.org.uk Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel The Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel (...

http://www.leavemethewhite.com/

This site is great for letting students loose on a whole film as they have to choose what they think are the parts of the film they should be drawing on (dependent on what they are writing about).

Check out the Film & Lighting Course by TAP | White Bus.

http://www.coexist.org.uk/tap-courses-by-subject.html

This course is excellent value and comes highly recommended by Vicky Casson.

Click on the link below to explore CreativeMediaLinks.com

http://creativemedialinks.com/

Media and Cultural Theory by Dr Stephen Hill and B. Fenner is an ideal guidebook for undergraduates studying a range of Media and Cultural Studies courses.

Covering over thirty theorists, the book is organised into ten chapters, each focusing on a specific theoretical strand.

Alongside more traditional forms like film, television and music, the book also makes reference to Facebook, YouTube and MySpace.

Click on the link to join us and start networking - it’s free. :)

Aber.ac.uk or MCS Daniel Chandler’s outstanding website for Media Studies at Aberystwyth University. Good for developing an understanding of theory.

Acland Burghley Media Studies website

Allisonmedia.net An excellent site for those wishing to tackle both KS4 and KS5 Media Studies

Auteur produce tailor-made revision guides for Media Studies that are comprehensive, constructive and challenging.

BBC...