Guides

• Understanding The Music Industry & Music Industry Websites

Case Studies

• Fan Site Sample Deconstruction

• Product Site Sample Deconstruction

• Social Networking Site Sample Deconstruction

• Star Site Sample Deconstruction

Activities & Skills

• Music Video Codes

• Music Magazine Codes

• Music Industry Websites

• Music Industry Mock

• Music Industry Mark Scheme

Associated Resources

• Katy Perry Start Site

This page should provide you with an index to the information we have on MediaEdu which relates directly to the 2012 WJEC GCSE Media Studies External Assessment on Music: Industry Websites & Magazines.

This page also contains external links to support materials on the WJEC site.

Scheme

• WJEC GCSE Media Studies Unit 1 Scheme of Work: Music | Industry Websites | Magazines

Guide

• Understanding The Music Industry & Music Industry Websites

Case...

Scheme

• WJEC GCSE Media Studies 2012 Unit 1 SoW - Music.doc

Associated Resources

• WJEC GCSE Media Studies Music: Industry Websites & Magazines Overview

Concepts

• Visual/Aural language - Semiotics
• Music Genre Codes and Conventions and Narrative
• History of Popular Music
• Representation in Music Websites and Music Videos
• The Music Industry
• Music Magazines
• Revision

Skills

• Analysis, skills of Deconstruction, Note taking, Group work
• Identifying...

2011 Exam

Section A - Music Video
Section B - Music Fan Websites

2012 Exam

Section A - Music Industry Websites
Section B - Music Magazines

The exam (40% of the final mark)  2 hours 15 minutes. The topic is music. Candidates will be expected to study the topic in a way which reflects the convergent nature of contemporary media.

The paper is divided into two sections.

Section A: Thinking about the Media – Investigating

This will assess...

Unit 2 Creating Media

This is the course work unit and here we are looking at just one of the three briefs. It is the new brief for students to complete by May 2011. All teacher-assessed marks to be returned to AQA by 10 January 2011 or 15 May 2011

MediaEdu pages that will help with this module:

• Popular Music Promotion
• Understanding Advertising
• CD Cover Design & Analysis
• Production Zone – Video
• Music Video Pre-Production
• Digital Cameras and...

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Joe McElderry and Rage Against the Machine: a most unlikely chart battle!

In this scheme of work Stephen Hill compares the campaign for Joe McElderry’s ‘The Climb’ (UK number two, Christmas 2009) and Rage Against the Machine’s ‘Killing in the Name’ (UK number one, Christmas 2009). He considers the ways in which the marketing of the two songs reflects very different strategies for the promotion of...

In Term 3 of Year 9, we introduce the students to Pop Bands & The Music Industry. The students are required to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding by researching and analysing existing pop bands, CD covers, promo videos and tour posters. They are helped to develop their understanding of musical genres and how this affects a band’s actual and perceived/projected identity. The students then use this newly acquired knowledge to plan,...

In Term 3, we introduce the students to Pop Bands and the students are required to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding by creating their own band.

This unit includes profiling; the analysis and design of CD cases and covers; tour posters; creating a mix using Garage Band (a Mac application).

Every sixth lesson the students sit a formal assessment and are awarded a National Curriculum level using our tailor-made assessment...