Film & TV Language: index

We are half-way through our Film & TV Language unit and need to create an index to ensure we are up-to-date on all work so far.  

Film & TV Language index

Keeping an index of all your work is extremely good practice from a revision perspective. Not only does this keep the concepts and media terminology fresh in your mind but it will also highlight if you've missed anything through absence or trips. Your index should currently include the following:

1) Film poster analysis
2) Mise-en-scene blog tasks
3) Star persona: video feedback and learner response
4) Lighting blog tasks
5) Sound blog tasks

6) Sound: parallel and contrapuntal video feedback and learner response

For your index, it needs to link to YOUR corresponding blogpost so you can access your work on each key concept quickly and easily. This also means you if you have missed anything you can now catch up with the work/notes and won't underperform in future assessments/exams due to gaps in your knowledge.

Important: your index needs to be completed during the lesson. Any missing work MUST be caught up over half-term.

MIGRAIN: index and folder check

We are approaching the halfway point in our MIGRAIN Introduction to Media unit and need to create an index to ensure we are up-to-date on all work so far.  

As you will have seen with your recent assessment, it is important we are revising terminology and theory on an ongoing basis and making sure there are no gaps as the course continues. 

MIGRAIN index

Keeping an index of all your work is extremely good practice from a revision perspective. Not only does this keep the concepts and media terminology fresh in your mind but it will also highlight if you've missed anything through absence or trips. Your index should currently include the following:

1) Media consumption audit
2) Language: Reading an image - advert analyses
3) Reception theory
4) Semiotics: icons, indexes and symbols
5) Genre: Factsheets and genre study questions
6) Narrative: Factsheet questions

For your index, the text should link to YOUR corresponding blogpost so you can access your work on each key concept quickly and easily. This also means you if you have missed anything you can now catch up with the work/notes and won't underperform in the assessment due to gaps in your knowledge.

Important: your index needs to be completed during the lesson.

Folder check

An organised folder is absolutely vital when it comes to keeping notes for revision in future. At the beginning of the year you started an A4 ringbinder folder with dividers - now we need to check we have all our notes in chronological order and a space for our marked assessment when it is returned after half-term.

Use the folder check self-assessment sheet to check you have everything in order then simply sign it yourself and ask your teacher to countersign it to confirm you are up-to-date. Simple!

Film & TV Language: Sound video feedback and learner response

This is always a great lesson - screening your parallel and contrapuntal sound videos. 

When they are done, you'll need to complete the following tasks on your blog:

Video feedback/learner response

Create a new blogpost called 'Sound video feedback and learner response'. 

1) Make sure your video is on YouTube and embedded on your blog. 

2) Type up your feedback from your teacher.

3) Type up your feedback from fellow students.

4) Now reflect on your work and write your own comments. Add three WWWs and three EBIs underneath the rest of your feedback.

5) Learner response: compare your own video against your evaluation of the top three videos in the class. Whose did you think was best and why? How could you have improved your own video?

Complete this for homework if you don't get it done in the lesson - due date specified by your coursework teacher. Don't forget the additional blog tasks for Sound too!

Folder check - Friday!

On Friday you need to bring your Media folder to the lesson to show you are organising your notes. 

Specifically, we will be checking you've got the following:

• Ring binder folder or equivalent
• Dividers - section for each teacher and assessments
• Notes in chronological order/title/date 
• Quality of note taking 

We will be checking this in Friday's lesson - make sure you have everything required!

12E Blog feedback and learner response

12E - you should have an email in your inbox giving you feedback on your MIGRAIN blog work so far.

In today's lesson you need to post a learner response to your blog feedback. Complete the following tasks:

1) Create a new blogpost called 'Blog feedback and learner response' and copy and paste ALL your feedback from the email - WWW/EBI/LR. Read your feedback carefully and discuss any issues with me if something doesn't make sense.

2) Complete the learner response tasks in your feedback email. If you're missing any work or have posted things to the wrong blog you need to start putting that right immediately. If you were absent for a piece of work you'll need to catch up over the weekend. You then need to write a paragraph answering the questions in your LR - this will be a reflection on your first few weeks of Media.

When you have completed your LR, you can work on the narrative blog tasks from Monday's lesson - this is due on Monday. Don't forget we also have an assessment on Monday so you need to be revising everything you've learned in Media so far this term.

Media Awards - Tasks

Make sure you get your Media Awards ticket this week. It's an incredible event - a really positive celebration of the outstanding work that Media students produce, and the most glamorous night in Greenford! Dress to impress. And be there on time - Tuesday 17/10, before 6pm!

And, for Y12 Media students, it's the best preparation for your A Level coursework, which is why we're making it compulsory for you to attend. You'll be truly inspired by what you see; motivated to do just as well, if not even better; and get lots of ideas about how to put together an A grade production.

After the event, we want you to write mini-reviews of your THREE favourite films and to post them up onto your coursework blog for the final lesson before half term (Friday 20/10).

Don't forget to consider all aspects of media language - cinematography, mise-en-scene (CLAMPS), sound, editing - using as much media terminology as possible (don't forget to highlight keywords); and also consider the film's use of genre conventions, how it will appeal to audiences (including dominant/oppositional readings), its use of narrative structure/roles, etc. Essentially, you should be applying all you've learnt on the course so far.

12E Cover Work - 11/10/17: p3/4

A cover teacher will be starting off the lesson today but I'll be there at some stage to take over and check that you've been making progress so please get on with the following tasks:

1. Read the Film & TV Language: Sound blogpost (below this one) and make written notes on the key terms for your Media folder (which we'll be checking soon).

2. Scroll down to slide 31 of the Film Language booklet and work through tasks 1-4, posting up detailed answers to the questions on your blogs, amking sure you highlight key media terminology. The clips can be accessed at M:\Resources\A Level\Film Language\03 Sound clips on the Media drive. You'll need to ask Ms Quinn for headphones if you don't have your own.

Anything not completed in the lessons this week will need to be done for homework so get on with it!