Resources for WJEC GCSE Film Studies on MediaEdu

This page should provide you with an index to the information we have on MediaEdu which relates directly to WJEC GCSE Film Studies.

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

Further Reading & Support

The primary source for authoritative information & support is the WJEC Film Studies website.

WJEC GCSE Film Studies

Resources for WJEC GCSE Media Studies on MediaEdu

This page should provide you with an index to the information we have on MediaEdu which relates directly to WJEC GCSE Media Studies.

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

• 2012 WJEC GCSE Media Studies Music: Industry Websites & Magazines Overview

Further Reading & Support

The primary source for authoritative information & support is the WJEC Media...

Resources for AQA GCSE Media Studies on MediaEdu

This page should provide you with an index to the information we have on MediaEdu which relates directly to AQA GCSE Media Studies.

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

• 2012 AQA GCSE Media Studies Television Crime Drama Overview

Further Reading & Support

The primary source for authoritative information & support is the AQA Media website.

AQA GCSE Media...

This page should provide you with an index to the information we have on MediaEdu which relates directly to OCR GCSE Media Studies.

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

• Understanding OCR GCSE Media Studies

Schemes

• 2012 OCR GCSE Media Studies 1-Year Scheme of Work
• 2012 OCR GCSE Media Studies 2-Year Scheme of Work

Unit B321 - The Individual Media Studies Portfolio (Controlled Assessment)

• An Introduction...

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

ACTIVITIES

INSTITUTIONS...

UNITS B321, B322 or B323, and B324

There are three units designed as a two year GCSE with the emphasis on practical work.

Unit B321: The Individual Media Studies Portfolio

This is a Controlled Assessment unit, internally assessed and externally moderated.

It is essential that Centres set assignments that make use of TWO media within this Unit ~ ie if two texts are compared in the same media format in the theory element, then the supporting...

Andy Warhol predicted in 1968 that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Contemporary observers such as David Weinberger suggest that Internet technologies will make everyone famous to 15 people.  But Reality TV shows confirm to viewers that anyone can become famous to an audience of millions – well almost anyone… 

Genre

Reality television is a hybrid genre. It is like a documentary as it is a factual form concerned with investigating...

Half-Day Revision Course for AQA GCSE Media Studies External Assessment on Action Adventure Films - 2011

Our first session will be a half-day revision course on Action Adventure Films for this summer’s AQA GCSE Media Studies External Assessment. See ‘Programme Details’ below for more info.

Programme Details

• We come to you.

• We would suggest a Saturday if you would like the course delivered in term time.

• Each revision course is 3 hours in...

What is The Popular Press?

Contents

• definitions of media language associated with newspapers
• codes and conventions
• areas of study
• classroom activities
• front page examples
• front page quiz
• news values
• regulation
• institutions
• representations
• audiences
• politics and the popular press

The Popular Press refers to mass circulation national newspapers, targeted at the popular end of the market. This includes The Sun, The Daily Mirror, The Daily...

The genre of Sport on Television can be used as a key component of many GCSE courses. Students studying the WJEC GCSE MEDIA STUDIES for examination in 2010 are required to study sport on television. The WJEC exam papers – two hours writing and 30 minutes reading or viewing - for 2010 are in two parts: Section A has FOUR compulsory questions focusing on SPORT ON TV - for a full scheme of work see WJEC Sport on TV.

An Introduction

A Level Storyboarding

Pre-production Item | Storyboard

Example Brief: Create a storyboard (and video trailer) for a TV Crime Drama

The pre-production brief is to create a storyboard. Students should create a storyboard that shows as much detail as possible including camera instructions with details of camera movement, shot duration, content, details of audio tracks and details of transitions between frames.

This guide opens with a...

Use the three image links above to access GEEVIDEO.com’s excellent archive of Pop Music on TV Clips. When you click on one of the movie clips, you will see a ‘Download Spamblocker’ advert - ignore this and click on the ‘skip’ option on top right hand corner of the screen. The video should then be ready to watch.

Anyone teaching pop music needs to ge their libary to order the fabulous comprehensive history of pop by Alan Parker called All You...

‘The focus of this examination is institutional/ scheduling issues and audience pleasures. These pages on sit-com provide a background only to the topic. The specific issues of institution/scheduling and audience pleasures in relation to sit-com will need to be taught separately.’

Brief Definition

The British TV sitcom is a television series that derives humour from the same characters in a fixed location exploring a variety of comic...

We Study Media by Rob McMinn

The Student Room & Media Studies

Setting up a Radio Station on Mediaed.org.uk

Modern Mechanix: examples of vintage advertising

Technorati on Ideology

Ideology for Kids: Decoding the Kremlin’s Website

The End of Cyberspace

Kinoeye on Media Studies

Bluegrass Film Society

Kids Gobble Up Interactive Junk Food Marketing

Continental Philosophy: Key Notes on Theorists

Dr. Mabuse’s Kaledio-scope: Four Models of...

Television and film crime/cop drama is very popular with a wide audience. Crime dramas seek to anchor the representations of all types of police officers, criminals and victims as ‘believable’ characters, with ‘realistic’ plot lines, set in urban locations.The genre has been taken up in the US under the heading of American Quality Televsion (AQT) - see under heading AQT.

Codes and conventions

Crime dramas:

• are constructed realities
...

Denotation and Connotation

These are two important words concerned with the way an audience understands the meaning of a media text. These can also be called the signs and signified meaning, or the micro and macro features.

Denotation / sign / micro feature is the basic, literal meaning of what is in the picture or scene.

Connotation / signified meaning / macro feature means different interpretations suggested by the text, often associated...

BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show fits cosily into the category or genre of satire but with only some of its Swiftian connotations. This is not satire to hurt, or pillory or induce change. It is satire to gently entertain raising some pertinent political and moral questions in the course of entertaining and topically informed audience. It is more like witty after dinner conversation catching up on the more bizarre areas of the week’s news, with...

• Genre: Radio Comedy Satire of the Week’s News / Themes
• Running Time: 30 minutes from an hour live recorded show
• Home Station: BBC Radio 4
• Broadcast: 1998
• Series: 34
• Audience: It is one of Radio 4s most popular shows, with over 1.5 million listeners.

Starring

Hugh Dennis
Steve Punt
Jon Holmes (letters and emails)
Micth Benn (music, like this song King of Twitter)
Marcus Brigstocke (angry monologues)
Laura Shavin (female voices)

Other...

• Genre: Radio Comedy Surreal Sitcom
• Running Time: 30 minutes

• Home Station: Originally BBC London Live, then BBC Radio 4, later BBC 7

• Broadcast: 16 October to the 20 November 2001

• Series: One with six episodes

• Audience: Mainly student age, but 15-30 in the main

Starring

Noel Fielding* Julian Barratt*
Lee Mack
Richard Ayoade
Rich Fulcher* (*Writers)

Other Information

Award: Douglas Adams Award for Innovative Comedy Writing.

The series is...

• Genre: Radio Comedy Panel Game
• Running Time: 30 minutes

• Home Station: BBC Radio 4, with repeats on BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC World Service and you can listen to an episode from 1982 on the BBC iPlayer

• First Broadcast: 11 April 1972, only exception to series was 1998 and 2008 (Humph’s illness/ death)

• Series Length: Normally 6 per series, with 1-2 series a year. Series are recorded with two programmes running back to back

• Audience: Over 2...

Introduction

Although TV Comedy is a favourite, many of our top shows started on the radio: Little Britain, Harry Hill’s Fruit Corner and Goodness Gracious Me. It also brings in a range of genres like sketch shows, quiz shows, sit-coms and one-liners with writer-performers like Milton Jones or Miranda Hart. It can be surreal like The Mighty Boosh or traditional like I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue.

Students will need to research this and...

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...

Associated Resources

• Narrative AS Terminology Revision Sheet.doc

Overview

• Narrative
• Narrative Enigmas
• Narrative Themes
• Narrative Structure
• Narrative Theory

Narrative

• The structure and organisation of media texts e.g. story
• Narrative chain of cause and effect – the plotlines in a story that are triggered by action and enigma codes (something happens that causes something else to happen)
• Narrative is correlated...

Overview

• GCSE Media Studies Overview

Scheme

• OCR GCSE Media Studies 2012 1-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...

Overview

• Year 11 AQA Media Studies GCSE 1 Year Scheme of Work 2012: (4812 Single Award)
• Unit 1: Investigating the Media (TV Crime Drama) and Unit 2: Understanding the Media (Controlled Assessment)

Scheme

• AQA GCSE Media Studies 2012 1-Year SOW.doc

Concepts

• Media Language, Forms and Conventions (Semiotics, Genre, Narrative)
• Institution (Producers, Distribution, Technology)
• Audiences (Targeting, Theory and Debate)
• Representation
• Research,...

Action Adventure / Crime Thriller (Heist) / Comedy Hybrid

The Italian Job is a ‘British’ film starring Michael Caine that was made in 1969. It is about a carefully planned heist involving gold bullion being stolen by an ‘English Mob’ from underneath the nose of the Mafia.

The film achieved critical and commercial success and traded on the recent success of the England football team winning the football World Cup in 1966.

It remains an...

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...

These quizzes are best viewed in Firefox.

Firefox is an excellent alternative to Internet Explorer which is available free for both PCs and Macs.

These quizzes are best viewed in Firefox.

Firefox is an excellent alternative to Internet Explorer which is available free for both PCs and Macs.

These quizzes are best viewed in Firefox.

Firefox is an excellent alternative to Internet Explorer which is available free for both PCs and Macs.

These quizzes are best viewed in Firefox.

Firefox is an excellent alternative to Internet Explorer which is available free for both PCs and Macs.

The music industry is the name for the way the music we want to hear is delivered to us. It is part of the Creative Arts Business which includes cinema and theatre, where music is an integral part of their activities.

The aim of the music industry is to make money from a product which in this case is music, in the same way that a washing machine manufacturer makes money by designing and selling a product – a machine to do your washing.

One of the major planning points in a teacher’s year is concerning a course. With changing specifications and curriculums, you can find yourself in the position of designing and redesigning media studies courses every year. So when do you do the controlled assessment? When do you tackle the skills training and when can you start the academic theory. Because you have more than a year, it can almost be too much time. Here are a few points which...

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,...

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,...

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,...

It all began in Wiltshire with the brutal murder of a three year old boy in June 1860. His body was taken from his bed at his home Road Hill House and dumped in the privy.

Who done it and why?

The crucial murder mystery element was that all the principal suspects were the people in the house at the time – the family and the servants.

The media in the form of local and national newspapers reported with relish every detail of the case and it...

Scheme

• AQA GCSE Media Studies 2012 Unit 1 SoW - Television Crime Drama.doc

Associated Resources

• AQA GCSE Media Studies Television Crime Drama Overview

Concepts

• Media Language, Forms and Conventions (Semiotics, Genre, Narrative)
• Institution (Producers, Distribution, Technology)
• Audiences (Targeting, Theory and Debate)
• Representation
• Research, Planning and Responding to a Brief
• Constructing, Creating and Evaluating

Skills

• Textual Analysis,...

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

Guides

Understanding Crime Drama

Understanding The Murder Mystery

Case Studies

The Mentalist

Luther

Life on Mars

24 Magazine

Bones Homepage

Activities & Skills

Coming soon…

Associated Resources

Coming soon…

Associated Resources (by Rob Miller)

• Katy Perry Star Site.doc
• Music Industry Fan Site Sample Deconstruction: http://www.katyfan.com.doc

• Music Industry Product Site Sample Deconstruction: http://www.kerrang.com.doc

• Music Industry Social Networking Site Sample Deconstruction: Jay Z.doc

• Music Industry Star Site Sample Deconstruction: http://www.rollingstones.com.doc

...

Associated Resources

Deconstructing Website Pages.doc

The main point with websites is that they can be deconstructed like any other media form – the basic principles of Print Media (Magazines and Newspapers) apply in that a fundamental audience appeal is constructed from layout and design with the key fact that websites have their own conventions.

The Tabloid (see below) is the closest form of traditional media that compares with the...

TV Crime Drama Police Procedurals Worksheet.doc

TV Crime Drama Characters Worksheet.doc

TV Crime Drama Mise-en-scene Worksheet.doc

TV Crime Drama Production Ideas.doc

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...

This page should provide you with an index to the information we have on MediaEdu which relates directly to the 2012 AQA GCSE Media Studies External Assessment on Television Crime Drama.

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

Scheme

• 2012 AQA GCSE Media Studies Unit 1 Scheme of Work: Television Crime Drama

Guides

• Understanding Crime Drama
• Understanding The Murder Mystery

Case Studies

• Crime Drama Case...

Trailer: Season 3

Genre: US Police Procedural

First seen in September 2008, on CBS. The show was created by Bruno Heller, who is also the show’s executive producer. Duration is 44 minutes of actual drama.

By 2011 it is in its third series and joins a stable of police procedurals on Channel 5 including:

CSI: Miami; CSI: NY; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; NCIS and US Law and Order.

I have chosen it as a case study because it attracts a...

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...

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This guide explains what you have to do for the pre-production phase of WJEC GCSE Film Studies.

It shows you:

• how to write a script
• how to create a storyboard
• how to produce a front page and contents page for a new film magazine
• how to produce a marketing campaign for your film

It then explains how you will do / what grade you will get.

GCSE Film Studies...

AA Films Analysing Evil Characters Worksheet.doc

AA Films Analysing Good Characters Worksheet.doc

AA Films Camera Angles & Shot Worksheet.doc

AA Films Editing Worksheet.doc

AA Films Editing Worksheet Exemplar.doc

AA Films Hollywood Worksheet.doc

Film Marketing Analysis Worksheet.doc

Storyboard Blank 8 Frames.doc

• We can organise half-day or full day courses on any aspect of Media Studies at your school or college.

• We can also provide keynote speakers for conferences and training events.

Contact MediaEdu

Programme Details

• We come to you.

• Where possible assessors from leading awarding bodies lead our courses.

• Each revision course is 3 hours in length and is delivered in both whole group and seminar-style workshops. We can run a full-day course, if...

Half-Day Revision Course for AQA GCSE Media Studies External Assessment on Action Adventure Films - 2011

Our first session will be a half-day revision course on Action Adventure Films for this summer’s AQA GCSE Media Studies External Assessment. See ‘Programme Details’ below for more info.

Programme Details

• We come to you.

• We would suggest a Saturday if you would like the course delivered in term time.

...

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...

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...

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...

• We can organise half-day or full day courses on any aspect of Media Studies at your school or college.

• We can also provide keynote speakers for conferences and training events.

Contact MediaEdu

Programme Details

• We come to you.

• Where possible assessors from leading awarding bodies lead our courses.

• Each revision course is 3 hours in length and is delivered in both whole group and seminar-style...