NEW A2 WEBSITE

New A2 Website

Please check it out and complete the HW for tomorrow.

AS & A2: Young Journalists' Academy Summer School

AS, well done for having completed your first year.  I look forward to seeing you all back next Tuesday!

A2, I hope your exam went well today, and well done for completing the course.

For those of you who are 18 and under, there is a great opportunity to apply for the Young Journalists' Academy Summer School. The deadline for your application is Friday 5th July. All the details are on the link below:

http://yja.org.uk/summer-school-application/

MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY

Media and Collective Identity

6. Analyse the ways in which at least one group of people is 'mediated'.

7. Discuss the social implications of media in relation to collective identity. You may refer to one group or more in your answer.

Please use one of these as a focus for your research and preparations.

A2 Wednesday 24th April

As I am away from school today, it gives you a final opportunity to complete your research, planning, products, evaluations, blogs, websites etc. please ensure that you use the time you have wisely and that you do not waste the opportunity.

Currently from my most recent viewing there is a considerable amount to do for many of you. In the end, and the end is this Friday at 5pm, it is your work that I have to mark and grade. So please show me the best that you can be through what you do.

Ms Patel is happy to work in C1 and will I'm sure support you where she can but she too has work to do. It would be sensible at the end of the 4 periods for you to post on the home page of your AP blog, what you did today as evidence of your productivity.

AS NOTES ON AS MARKING AND FEEDBACK PAGE

Please make sure that you read this ASAP and make suitable changes to your blogs.

Deadline is Thursday 5.30pm

A2 SECTION 1A

• Describe how you developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.
• Describe the ways in which your production work was informed by research into real media texts and how your ability to use such research for production developed over time.

• Describe how you developed your skills in the use of digital technology for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to your creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.

A2 and AS THIS WEEK

Advanced Portfolio

A2 Wednesday 17th

• Working to completion of Evaluations - filming, editing, uploading
• Ensuring that all products are visible on your blogs - video must be uploaded to Youtube of Vimeo using Firefox
• Reviewing all elements of blog and ensuring that this meets the criteria for success (deadline for blog is 26th April)

All evaluations MUST be completed and uploaded by 5pm Friday the 19th of April


AS Thursday 18th

• Working to completion of Evaluations - filming, editing, uploading
• Ensuring that all film openings are visible on your blogs - must be uploaded to Youtube of Vimeo using Firefox
• Reviewing all elements of blog and ensuring that this meets the criteria for success (deadline for blog is 26th April)

All evaluations MUST be completed and uploaded by 5pm Thursday 18th of April

NOTE: THE MEDIA ROOM WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO YOU WEDNESDAY AFTER SCHOOL OR THURSDAY AFTER SCHOOL.

EASTER HOLIDAY REVISION

There will be sessions for AS and A2 in the holidays.

Tuesday 9th April

• A2      9.30-12 & 12.30-3 (evaluations)
• AS     12.30-3 (evaluations)

Wednesday 10th April

• AS      12.30-3 (exam prep)

All are expected to attend.

AS Foundation Portfolios

Thursday 28th March

Work to completion of your film openings and upload to blogs.

Once video is complete:

• share to movie
• upload to youtube or vimeo (try using Firefox to upload to Youtube/Vimeo)
• embed in blog

Alternatively, if this doesn't work

• share to movie
• upload to blog (quality will not be as good but it should work) 

If this doesn't work for you please do contact: ITsupport@brentford.hounslow.sch.uk

All Foundation Portfolio Film openings MUST be uploaded by the end of the day.

If you have already completed this then please work on evaluations and your blog. 

Confirm that you have read and understood this by posting on your blog what you have done today.

A2 Advanced Portfolio

Wednesday 27th March

Work to completion of all production elements and upload to blogs/websites.

Once video is complete:

• share to movie
• upload to youtube or vimeo (try using Firefox to upload to Youtube/Vimeo)
• embed in blog/website

Alternatively, if this doesn't work

• share to movie
• upload to blog (quality will not be as good but it should work) 

All AP production, main and ancillaries MUST be uploaded by the end of the day.

If you have already completed this then please work on evaluations and your blog/website. 

Confirm that you have read and understood this by posting on your blog what you have done today.

AS Film openings - THURSDAY DEADLINE

All must be completed by Thursday deadline.

THERE WILL BE LESSONS 1-4 ON THURSDAY JUST AS USUAL.

You have that time in addition to the time you use in class after school on Monday or Tuesday.

I am expecting to see as many of you as possible after Tuesdays Media class as this is the ideal time to complete.

EASTER REVISION

The easter revision sessions will be 

• Tuesday the 9th from 12.30-3 - CW evaluations work
• Wednesday the 10th 12.30-3 - Section A exam prep

All are expected to attend.

A2 DEADLINES, ESSAYS AND COMPLETION

You all know the deal. Wednesday.

Please make sure that you also submit the essays set by Monday too, you need the practice and you need to make progress with your exam work. The big push is on and you CAN do it. if you really try,

• Habiba - please bring you ancillary 2 or upload to your website - you need feedback to do the evaluations
• Rana and Hodo - ensure that you have both ancillaries completed and that you finish your sound edit in time - as with Habiba you need feedback
• Jess - well done for uploading your recent work, now ensure that you recut, improve and get feedback
• Lauren and Rebecca - complete and upload final ancillary
• Yasmin - ancillary two - please have a new version of this - you can remember use photoshop remotely to do it
• Josh and Valeriya - complete and upload

The fact is ladies and gent, you are really close to producing some excellent work and once it is done you will feel so much better and you will be free to focus on your evaluations, making your websites and blogs work perfectly and exam prep.

Do yourselves the favour and complete.

I will be able to give you access to iMacs subject to negotiation on Monday from 11am onwards.

EASTER REVISION SESSIONS

All day Tuesday the 9th of April - 9.30-12 and 12.30-3
Work on Evaluations

FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO AS

REMINDER - AS IF YOU NEED ANOTHER

YOUR FILM OPENING MUST BE COMPLETED BY THE DEADLINE.

INCOMPLETE WORK CANNOT GET LEVEL 3 OR ABOVE AND TENDS TO GET LEVEL 1

DON'T WASTE THIS CHANCE TO SECURE A GOOD GRADE.

DON'T WASTE THE VIRTUALLY UNLIMITED ACCESS YOU HAVE TO THE MEDIA ROOM TO COMPLETE YOUR WORK.

NB. Any borrowed equipment must be returned ASAP.

ADVANCED PORTFOLIO A2

DEADLINES:

27th March
All products completed and uploaded to blogs/websites

19th April
All evaluations completed and uploaded

26th April
All blogs and websites completed and locked - no further work will be possible after this date

There is no flexibility on these deadlines as all work must be marked and submitted in May.

A2 HW REMINDER

Please ensure that you have your "trailer trash girl teens" dossier uploaded to your blog by the start of tomorrow's lesson in addition to the comparative essay about Fish Tank and Precious. Those who haven't completed their Gypsy essay must have it tomorrow without fail.

We will be working on a new representation and refining and developing your personal research. In addition we will be looking at what you need to achieve in terms of marks to get the grades you need.

A2 and AS - Competition

The deadline for the Media Magazine Competition is the 25th of March which is Monday week so if you want to stand a chance of winning, you MUST get your production work completed by Thursday the 21st of March.

This is a very prestigious competition and it would be excellent for us to enter as many outstanding film openings, trailers, music videos or short films as we can.

C1 as always in available for you to work. Don't waste this opportunity.

Competition details

AS Understanding Filmmaking - The Business

Use this website to carry out your section of the reasearch task: Creative Skillset

• E-mail me your presentation so I can link it to the blog
• You will be feeding back to your peers at 2.40pm

It is vital that all the information is shared as it will be applied to an essay question and be a useful revision tool.

1. The Idea

1. The Idea (2)

2& 3. Finance & Script Development

5&6. Financing & Pre-production

7. Shoot

8. Post-production

9. Sales

10&11. Marketing & Exhibition

12. Other Windows

Using the resources your peers have provided you with, key terminology and your own research, write the following essay:

Discuss the ways in which media products are produced, and distributed to audiences, within a media area, which you have studied. (50marks)

–media products = films

–media area = the film industry

–include detailed references to Working Title

DUE: Tuesday 19th March

AS MEDIA FOUNDATION PRODUCTIONS

The essential work of completing picture edits must be successfully achieved by you as your HOMEWORK in school or at home by next Thursday.

You have seen the marking criteria and success depends on your input in your own time not simply the short time you have in class.

DEADLINES

• PICTURE EDIT - extension till - Thursday 14th March
• SOUND EDIT - completed film opening: picture edit with titles and sound mix - Thursday 28th March
• FIRST DRAFT EVALUATIONS - Thursday 28th March
• EVALUATIONS COMPLETED - Thursday 18th April
• PORTFOLIO FINAL DEADLINE - Thursday 25th April

These deadlines give you plenty of time if you are well organised and you work as a team. Take turns in editing, preparing sound and planning your evaluations. It is the only way you will manage to do this work.

Remember all work on blogs must be tagged with who did the work.

AS Synergy in Avengers Assemble

Year 12,

Well done on having a go at the practise exam question. You can find today's PowerPoint presentation on my page. Your homework is on there too - find out the definition of the terms required for your exam.

For those who were absent today - Chloe, Muna, Kiran, Tarryn and Lacey - you will need to complete the essay and hand it in to me before the lesson on Thursday. It is vital that you complete it as it will be assessed and used to determine your predicted grades. Any questions, e-mail me or come and find me.

Miss. P

A2 Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers

How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and ethnic/social/collectivegroups of people in different ways? (50marks)

 

Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers by

A2 CI and Reps Essay

Collective Identity and Representation by MediaMassage

AS Case Study Research: Avengers Assemble

Homework..."for your consideration." (You do HAVE to complete it though).

A link to the lesson PowerPoint can be found on my page along with all the other resources I have used so far.

Complete the research you started on Avengers Assemble. We will be discussing your findings at the start of next Tuesday's lesson.

Remember, the AS course involves a lot of independent study and research. Look up the meaning of terminology you are unfamiliar with. We will do further work in class on this, but it will be of great benefit to you if you look into it yourself also.

I look forward to seeing your rushes on Thursday.

Miss. Patel

A2 APs

Despite the room being open yesterday and today for work, I have only seen two of you in working on your productions.

We will be reviewing them again this Wednesday and establishing what you need to do to complete them and discussing once again what support you may need for this.

It is therefore vital that you are all in on Monday to discuss how we are going to approach this given that it was our intention to have a viewing this Wednesday after school for the year 10 extra curricula class.

Current state of play for groups as far as I am aware: please let me know amendments, I have colour coded you according to your chance of achieving your target grade: Green - on target, Amber - just below target, Red - significantly under-achieving.

Rebecca and Lauren

• research and planning - nearing completion
• Main - complete
• Ancillary 1 and 2 - complete?
• Evaluations - underway

Jessica

• research and planning - underway
• Main - mid-way through edit
• Ancillary 1 and 2 - underway
• Evaluations - not started

Hodo and Rana

• research and planning - underway
• Main - still to complete picture edit
• Ancillary 1 and 2 - ?
• Evaluations - not started

Yasmin

• research and planning - underway
• Main - nearing completion
• Ancillary 1 and 2 - 1 complete, 2 nearing completion?
• Evaluations - not started

Habiba

• research and planning - underway
• Main - not sure - earlier version complete but being re-edited
• Ancillary 1 and 2 - 1 complete and 2 underway?
• Evaluations - not started

Josh and Valeriya

• research and planning - underway
• Main - picture edit nearing completion
• Ancillary 1 and 2 - completed or nearing completion
• Evaluations - not started

AS PRODUCTION

Production

Less than a week till the AS shoot is completed and I hope you have all been successful in filming your trailers or are ready to do so this weekend.

I have seen one member of one group in to edit already which is good for them. However, I have seen little sign of others. I am presuming that everything is going well behind the scenes, I hope so...

Equipment and filmed material

As you know, all equipment is due back next Thursday and all groups MUST bring their filmed material on SD card, hard drive or similar to the quadruple media lesson that day to upload footage and begin the edit. No excuses will be excepted.

I cannot stress to you how vital it is to complete this part of the process within the time. Failure to film at all will result in a fail for this unit.

Check list for Thursday:

• all school equipment: cameras, tripods, lights, tracks etc.
• SD card or hard drive or similar with filmed material
• updated blogs with evidence of what you have done - diary entries for filming days etc.

NB. Absence without a medical note or specific prior permission will be considered a serious breach of your responsibilities and a major step towards being asked to leave the course.

MEDIA ROOM OPENING TIMES

C1 will be open Thursday and Friday from 9.30am - 3.30pm

I will be in and out on Thursday so you are welcome to edit but I cannot supervise you or assist. On Friday there will be some competition for iMacs with year 11 and year 10XC who will have priority for their controlled assessments. However, you may well be lucky if you pick the right machines to work on.

Please do email me with any difficulties you encounter or any advice you may need.

AS FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO

Please make sure that you update your blogs regularly about how your shoot is going. I will be in school all day Friday and briefly on Thursday as well. If you need to speak to me please email.

Messages for various groups:

Moonlight: Tarryn - your father's number received, I will call him Thursday regarding your transport needs

Conta:  I spoke to Lacey regarding your permissions for Chiswick House - I hope you got it emailed to them as requested. Let me know how the shoot went on your blog.

Bloddy Productions:  Not received any equipment permission slip back from you and clearly no one came on Friday to pick anything up so I presume you have all the equipment you need. I received some permission from Ms Coleman. You can use the Beatrix Potter block but not on Tuesday or Thursday of the half term week.

Good luck to all of you. remember, keep focussed, use the Rodriguez techniques of shooting, be disciplined and safe and have fun too.

Mr H

AS Production Checklist

Production checklist by MissPatelMedia

Wednesday Lessons 1-4

You will have uninterrupted time this morning to work independently on completing your main and ancillary products to the highest standard. You will be registered at the beginning of P1 and P3 and checked up on periodically throughout the morning.

The expectation is that you can manage your time effectively.

Rana and Hodo
Josh and Valeriya

• Complete picture edit for short film including titling
• Aim to create a simple sound track of sync sound by using the detach audio tool and then extending sound a little either side of the edit and 'ramping it' so that all sound transitions are smooth between shots. Do not add music or sound fx in iMovie.
• Upload this version to your blog for me to view and give notes
• Share to media browers and migrate to garageband to begin sound edit if time
• Complete BOTH ancillary products (final versions I hope) and save as JPEGs - both must be uploaded to blog as well for marking
• Continue with evidence collecting and include all versions to show progress, feedback from audience etc.

Yasmin and Habiba

• Complete picture edit and titling - remove music and sound FX and apply same ideas as above though maintaining conventions of a teaser trailer
• Share to media browser
• Sound edit in garageband - adding back music, Sound FX etc.
• upload to blog so that I can view
• Upload completed Ancillary products to AP websites
• Continue with evidence collecting and show all versions of ancillaries to demonstrate progress on your websites

Jessica

• Complete main edit and upload to blog
• Complete ancillary products - detail is very important
• Continue to build your portfolio of evidence on your blog - show versions and feedback from audience

Rebecca and Lauren

• Check all products are complete to required standard - think about them being real world products with all expected institutional elements
• Continue to plan evaluations and create audio visual resources - mini documentaries - which will illustrate your answers

COLLECTIVE IDENTITY ESSAY

All essays which were due Monday must be uploaded to blogs by the end of the day.

Finally, I will expect to see a post appear on your blog today which  tells me what you achieved in the lesson time.

A2 Collective ID

Media and Collective Identity - EXAMINERS FEEDBACK

One very strong centre facilitated rich learning where candidates were able to utilise the ideas of Gauntlett on identity along with Judith Butler and a range of others very well in relation to film and magazines (with the exception of Lacan whose ‘mirror stage’ was usually misunderstood). There did tend to be an overwhelming sense of a prepared answer with almost all candidates beginning with ‘Gauntlett says ‘identity is complicated’) but whilst this may have been dull for the examiner after a while, candidates are not penalised for this approach. Other candidates considered the representation of youth and urban communities in music and other media and answers varied from sensitive and informed negotiations of the nature of subculture in 2010 whilst weaker candidates set up unhelpful and crude binary oppositions and crass generalisations about whole swathes of young people, ironically perhaps. Most pleasing was the ability of some candidates to take highly contemporary examples – eg the music of Dizzee Rascal and discuss them in theoretical contexts such as hegemony, democracy and representation and, again through Gauntlett, negotiated ‘self-help’ gender representation. A key piece of advice for centres is to move candidates away from generalised ideas of how ‘the media’ represent people and ideas and towards more ‘micro’ level discussions of how people give meaning to particular kinds of media in relation to their identities. 

Task:

• Highlight passage and copy to your own blog.
• Underline references and terminology which you do not understand
• Research to find answers and identify the sources which are unfamiliar - example Gauntlett
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You are the Teacher for this class set.
Username Prefix:	bsfga2media  (followed by the individual number I have given you)
Password Prefix:	bsfga2media (as above)

Task 2:

• Apply knowledge to write a paragraph about Guantlett's theories regarding collective identity.

HW 1

• What do you need to do to write a decent essay? Make a check list.

HW2

Media and Collective Identity

6  With reference to any one group of people that you have studied, discuss how their identity has been ‘mediated’.

7  “Media representations are complex, not simple and straightforward”. How far do you agree with this statement in relation to the collective group that you have studied?

Write a draft of an essay for one or other of the titles. Ensure that you use the ideas you have listed in your check list and that your essay explores your chosen area of focus in detail.

AS Peer Assessment Feedback - Cinematography Presentations

Peer Assessment Feedback - Cinematography Presentations I was pleased that all groups managed to present their work to the class. Use the feedback given by your peers to improve/complete your research on cinematography. Look back at the requirements of the task to ensure you have included all the necessary elements. I expect to see your Prezi uploaded to your group blog, in the research section, by Thursday 7th February.

Peer Assessment Feedback - Cinematography Presentations by MissPatelMedia

AS - Cinematography: lighting

Research into cinematography and prepare to present your Prezi back to the class at 10.10am. Remember to say how this research has informed your production.

Cinematography by

A2 COLLECTIVE IDENTITY

Comparative writing Having looked at an episode of Britain on FIlm entitled This Sceptred Isle, please find modern alternative visions of british life from current TV. Formulate your exploration by asking certain questions. For example:

• How has the media representation of Britishness changed between the early 1960s and now?
• In which ways does the representation of Britishness through television and film reveal the changes to the demographics of British society?
• How was Britain encouraged to see itself in the 1960s compared to now.

Though it would be easy to focus on the obvious changes in attitudes towards gender roles between 1960 and 2013 please make sure that you don't limit your exploration to this. remember that a likely essay title in the exam will be:

With reference to any one group of people that you have studied, discuss how their identity has been ‘mediated’.

Such a question as this demands that you examine in our case Britishness through media texts.

You might for example, make a list of texts you might use. remember that you must ensure that you are making reference to at least two media forms: i.e.. film, TV, advertising, print, internet, radio, games, music videos, etc.

Finally and very importantly here are some key areas to begin to consider when making notes and preparing.

• Social, Historical, Economic and Political context

SHEP

How do these crucial external factors influence the media text, its production/creation and its reception and audience?

How do factors including the multichannel and media saturated nature of our current world influence the way in which collective identity is mediated to us?

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AS - Introduction to Section B

Set up a new tab for your exam module (G322). It will be a useful aid when you are revising. You need to complete the questions on audience consumption and upload it to the new page by Monday 4th February. As always, if you are absent from the lesson, it is your responsibility to catch up on any missed work. I am happy to help, just come and ask me.

Introduction to G322: Section B by

A2 Collective Identity

Research sources

Government Census data
Collective Identity Youtube channel
The Guardian census article
The Guardian black British history Downton Abbey etc.
The Guardian British Citizenship test article and links
BBC charter
Ipsos-Mori survey of Young British people
BBC short history of immigration

How and why has British collective identity changed over the last 50 years and how is this reflected 

through the media?

Your work this afternoon is to explore the sources above and find in them a range of quotations. 

Use these to answer the question.

To help this. Create a mind map of how British identity has changed through the media. 

Add links to texts and  quotations which might help to clarify the changes.

Homework

Create a presentation in which you explore the question using the sources provided and
perhaps some others as well. Make it visual, informed and referenced (ie include your references
clearly in your presentation)

This work is preparation for your first full Collective Identity essay in answer to this question.

AS Audience Profiling - Target Audience

Ensure ALL your group work is uploaded AND published by Sunday 27th January. A list of all the tasks that need to be completed is shown below.

Remember, research and planning is worth 20marks. Ensure you take an active role within your group so that you are awarded for your individual contribution.

Audience Profiling - Target Audience by MissPatelMedia

A2 Essay Homework

A2 HW jan16 by MediaMassage

AS Portfolio - Research and Planning

Lesson PowerPoint

Ensure you have your video posted onto your group blogs by the end of period 4.

As well as your homework, think about what other types of research you can carry out. Look at your schedule and see what needs to be done by next week.

AS Foundation Portfolio - 10 Jan 2013

AS FP Jan13 L1 by MediaMassage Please remember to upload all elements to your blogs and keep them up to date with developments throughout the week. I will be checking to see that work has been completed on Monday.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

A2 Critical Theories