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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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.

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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

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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.

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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.