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Understanding TV Comedy »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, OCR GCSE, Other Topics, Moving Images, Television, Situation Comedy, Television Comedy, Hot Entries, Understanding Media, Understanding Key Topics
Finally in Year One you should start the class thinking about the topic for the B question in the exam. The current topic is TV comedy.
Individuals need to make their own study of this topic depending on their own consumption of the many varieties of TV comedy, so that they have a thorough knowledge of at least two different texts and preferably three. Gervais in Extras might be a way of looking at postmodern comedy
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[ read full article ] »Situation Comedy Genre »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, OCR GCSE, Key Concepts, Genre, Television, Situation Comedy, Television Comedy, Television Situation Comedy, Hot Entries
History and Context
Distant ancestors of Punch and Judy shows, Situation Comedies originated, as with much TV Comedy in part on the radio in the 1920s and 1930s. Due however to the exclusive nature of ‘the situation’ and the concept of visual audience identification it remains fundamentally a successful audio-visual sub genre – Hancock’s Half Hour is a notable exception to this in the 1950s transferring successfully from radio to...
[ read full article ] »Trollied Sky 1 Sitcom (August 2011-Present) Case Study »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, OCR GCSE, Key Concepts, Audience, Genre, Media Language, Narrative, Representation & Stereotyping, Television, Situation Comedy, Television Comedy, Television Situation Comedy, Hot Entries
Trollied is a Situation Comedy set in a fictional supermarket, Valco in the north-west, specifically Warrington in Cheshire. It is broadcast on a Monday night at 9pm and more unusually it is on Sky 1 (it is rare for Sky 1 to commission programmes from the Sitcom genre). Trollied is repeated immediately after on Sky 2 at 10pm. In its classic 30 minute format it follows some genre conventions but offers post watershed representations.
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[ read full article ] »2012 OCR GCSE Media Studies 2-Year Scheme of Work »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, OCR GCSE, Radio, Radio Comedy, Television, Television Comedy, Hot Entries
Overview
- GCSE Media Studies Overview
Scheme
- OCR GCSE Media Studies 2012 2-Year SOW.doc
Concepts
- Media Language, Forms and Conventions (Film Language, Genre, Narrative)
- Representation
- Audiences (Targeting, Appeals / Pleasures, Positioning)
- Institution
- Analysis, Production, Evaluation
- Research and Planning, Production, Evaluation
Skills
- Textual Analysis, Communication Skills, Note Taking, Group Work, Identifying & Understanding Action...
Outnumbered BBC1 Sitcom (2007-Present) Case Study »
Categories: Courses, GCSE, OCR GCSE, Key Concepts, Representation & Stereotyping, Television, Situation Comedy, Television Comedy, Television Situation Comedy, Hot Entries, Theory, Audience Theory
Outnumbered is a successful British Situation Comedy (Sitcom) named so simply because the two parental central protagonists, ‘Sue’ and ‘Pete’ are outnumbered by their three children. It is set in West London and although on the surface offers pluralistic representations in the guise of their unruly children who often intellectually challenge their parents it very much follows a standard genre template established by family based...
[ read full article ] »OCR GCSE Media Studies Exam Topics Revision Course »
Categories: Consultancy, Media Studies Consultancy, Courses, GCSE, OCR GCSE, Radio, Revision, Revision Courses, GCSE Revision, Staffroom, Training & Revision, Television, Television Comedy, Hot Entries, Workshops, MediaEdu Student & Teacher Workshops
Half or Full Day Revision Courses in Your School
Programme Details
Our practical workshops usually include:
- Investigating genre conventions (cards and games)
- Starter activities, ‘odd one out’ / ‘top n tail’ / connective thinking
- Loop cards with key facts
- Loop cards with relevant theories
- Carousel activities ‘add facts’ and move on….
- Carousel activities…making a storyboard…and move on…
We ensure that students get to know the exam structure,...
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OCR GCSE Media Studies Exam Topics Revision Course »
Categories: Consultancy, Media Studies Consultancy, Courses, GCSE, OCR GCSE, Radio, Revision, Revision Courses, GCSE Revision, Staffroom, Training & Revision, Television, Television Comedy, Hot Entries, Workshops, MediaEdu Student & Teacher Workshops
Half or Full Day Revision Courses in Your School
Programme Details
Our practical workshops usually include:
- Investigating genre conventions (cards and games)
- Starter activities, ‘odd one out’ / ‘top n tail’ / connective thinking
- Loop cards with key facts
- Loop cards with relevant theories
- Carousel activities ‘add facts’ and move on….
- Carousel activities…making a storyboard…and move on…
We ensure that...
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