Independent Exam Practice

Most of you now have good basic skills but to have a chance of getting 40+ out of 50 you need to be faster and write more. This means practice, practice practice ..


http://beauchampmedia.ning.com/video/video?page=1

This link will give you lots of opportunities to practise at home .... clips to analyse and examples of different representations under the spotlight. Lots of useful resources (the Ning was set up by a large 6th Form College with a big Media Studies entry!)

Please clearly head up anything you hand in for marking with the clip title!

Good Luck

More ways to practise ..

1. Informal.
Marchlands, a ghost story drama currently on ITV, cross cuts between 3 simultaneous narratives set at different times but the same location. It's quite fun but even if you don't want to devote 3 hours to it, it's worth checking out an episode to see how they manage the transitions .. lots of graphic match, action match, pan and wipe etc.

http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=209403

2. A formal timed practice for your mock A/S exam Thursday March 3rd.

This is the link to the clip used in the Jan 2011 exam. Watch the first 5 minutes and analyse how the repreentation of gender is constructed using camera, editing, mise en scene and sound.
Due Tuesday March 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM9QOHJeKXE&feature

Technical Codes and Conventions/Terminology in the Toolkit

YOU NEED TO LEARN THESE

and practise recognising/ using them on a regular basis, not just in lessons

If you are finding this difficult or have mislaid resources handed out then these links may help you.
Most are to Youtube clips so you will not be able to access at school.
It's a bit of a mixture but all links included have something useful to say. None are very long.

http://www.springhurst.org/cinemagic/glossary_terms.htm A detailed glossary of terminology

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONMSe_zhq70&feature=related Continuity Editing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zmx9le3wsY More Editing

http://www.schooltube.com/video/335600d87f874dcb887b/Video-Shooting-Basics As it says on the tin (see link name)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1japIhKU9I&feature=related Film Making Techniques

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVf-2Q2wv2Q&feature=related Rule of Three

More to come ... and clips for independent practice

Missing Work Reminder!

The clips of Hustle and Blood and Oil are available for viewing in
Coursework on Hercules : P Drive. You can also transfer to a USB and take home if you wish.

Hustle is poor quality (don't ask!) but gives the idea
Blood and Oil is a huge file as it's the complete episode.

Silent Witness is available on Click View as previously discussed.

Ashes to Ashes
Skins
Monarch of the Glen
Cutting It
The Chase

all need to be viewed in school.

Wednesdays 1 pm - 1.30 pm in C27 .

You can then also check for and if necessary copy any paper resources you have mislaid.
Please note that I always hand you copies of resources missed because of absence as soon as you are back in the lesson!

January 2011

Skins clip watched in lesson Tuesday 10.1.11 : representation focus Disability. Essay due Tuesday 18.1.11.

Clips with model notes and answers which you may have missed

Cutting It : representation focus gender

The Chase : representation focus gender

Silent Witness : representation focus ethnicity

Catch Up/extra support opportunities in C27 Wednesdays 1 - 1.30

Christmas 2010

Revise Revise Revise

You need to LEARN your toolkit and consolidate your understanding of the terminology by using the glossary and regularly technique spotting when viewing moving image texts.

You also need to improve your visual/aural recall and sharpen your ability to suss out the 'macro' context of any random extract from a moving image text.

For homework use the sheet of ten minute tests and challenges given out in class to get into training...

There is also a copy saved in CWK on Hercules on the school network

You also need to publish a 'training diary' which records at least five activities you have completed and lists which tv dramas you sampled. You should also evaluate what was most helpful and what progress you feel you are making. This could be done as a normal post or as a video diary or slideshow (Word 2010, widely available around school, has the functionality to export Powerpoint as a wmv file which can then be directly uploaded onto your blog without the need for a host site like Slideshare. This is very good news for your coursework so give it a whirl!).

I will be checking your blog progress on January 4 so I am ready to discuss it on Parents' Evening .......

The pace will increase next term - make sure you can keep up. A maximum of 15 lessons before the exam on May 17.

I will organise catch up viewings for any clips you missed because of absence which are not on the system (The Chase and Cutting It)

Merry Christmas!

This week I would like you to apply your developing expertise to your own viewing!

Choose a 3-5 minute extract from a TV Drama (any genre but preferably British and broadcast since 2005) which you think constructs interesting representations of ethnicity.

Best to choose an episode which you have recorded or is on i player/C4OD/ITVPlayer or is on Youtube or which you have on dvd. You will need to view your extract at least five times!

Title : Discuss how (fill in title of programme) uses

camera shots, sound, mise en scene, editing

to construct representations of ethnicity.

You will need to write

1. an introductory overview paragraph which explains the macro analysis of the clip (= genre, main narrative shape, characterisation, pace, atmosphere)

2. 4 further paragraphs which discuss the contribution of each technical code to the representation of ethnicity, with micro analysis of at least 5 relevant examples for each technical code.