Student Interviewers Wanted

Two days of crucial interviews are scheduled to take place this week...

• Head of Media Studies (to take responsibility for GCSE & A Level Media at GHS)
  
• Year 13 Media Mentors (to support Year 12s when they're doing their editing)

As these posts have major implications for you as Year 12s we're inviting you to be part of the interview panels to help us make the right decision about who to appoint.

It's a great opportunity for you to have your say ('Student Voice' in action) and will be really good experience for you to see how interview panels work (as you'll be applying for jobs yourselves soon, if you haven't done already).

Please email Macguffin by the end of Monday 25-02 if you want to be considered.

You...The Debate Audience

Don't forget Year 12 Media students...

The third annual Media Debate takes place this Thursday, 28-02-08 at 3.30 in the Lecture Theatre and we expect it to last until at least 5pm. Click here for more info.

It is compulsory for you to attend - it has been set as homework, and a register will be taken. Don't forget, there is no excuse not to come as you have had more than a week's warning to re-arrange any other commitments. And you'll need to be back at school for Parents' Evening which starts at 6pm so it may be that you'll find it more convenient to meet your parents at school after the debate ends.

Med 1 Exemplar: Daily Express

This is to help 12c2 students analyse their own tabloid front page (just one paragraph needed) for Monday 11th February...

As is the convention of a tabloid newspaper like the ‘Daily Express’, there is a large central headline that uses emotive language like “scandal” to report a negative story about migrants to the UK, who are often represented as criminals in the right-wing press. It will appeal to the lower-middle class, Conservative Party supporting readership whose prejudices are reinforced by this damaging stereotype of the foreigner. Although it only manages to sell around 700,000 copies a day (as opposed to the more than two million by its rival the ‘Daily Mail’) stories about the problems with immigration are obviously popular as they feature regularly on the front page, along with frequent reporting on Princess Diana and the Madeline McCann disappearance. There is also a large image – a medium close-up of an attractive woman, a “Bond Girl” – which is unsurprising when we consider that the paper is owned by Richard Desmond who owns Britain’s largest pornography TV channel (‘Channel X’).

12C2 Test Screening

In case you haven't already heard, I've organised a test screening for period 3 this Friday (February 8th), not period 6. Please ensure that you bring your tape so that you can present your footage to the rest of the class, who will be evaluating your production so far.