Creative Arts - Media Studies

Curriculum Co-ordinator

Mrs K. Earle (Head of Creative Arts)

Teacher

Ms H Conway

Learning Support Assistant

Ms R Mutch

Why study the media?

You live in a world surrounded by Media. It affects your life daily. You now have the opportunity to explore this diverse area that is already part of your life; to understand how, why and where Media is used to communicate to a huge range of people. You will explore how all different types of Media have their purpose and how they aim to communicate including: music, television, news, film, computers, the internet and magazines. Not only will you explore the companies behind these corporations and the audiences they appeal to, but you will also have the opportunity to create some of these products. This is a subject that relies on discussion, teamwork and creativity.

If you want to open your eyes to the world around you, then this is the subject for you!

Summary of Assessment

Written Paper 50% of overall grade
2.5 hour Exam
Section A : Moving Image
Section B: Still Image
Coursework 50% of overall grade
Three pieces of work from at least two different media.
One piece must be based on textual analysis, one piece
must be based on pre-production and one piece must be
based on production.

Each year has a new topic of focus for their examinations

2009

Moving Image: Animation films
Still Image: News in print and electronic form

2010

Moving Image: Sport on Television
Still Image: Advertising in print

Examples of Coursework - Textual Analysis

Compare the bathroom scenes in the horror films ‘Psycho’ and ‘The Amityville Horror’
Compare the opening of Disney’s ‘Fox and The Hound’ and
Compare two ‘Heat’ magazine covers
Compare the opening of ‘Match of the Day’ and ‘Soccer Saturday’

Examples of Coursework - Pre-Production Coursework

Create a storyboard for a horror trailer
Create a storyboard for the opening of a new Disney/Pixar film
Create a template for a new newspaper or magazine
Create a script for a new radio sop opera

Examples of Coursework - Production Coursework

Create a trailer for a horror film
Create a clay animation short film
Design a new front cover and contents page for a magazine
Design a CD cover and inlay
Create a podcast for a new radio programme

Examples of work

Events

Year 11 attended a cinema visit on Thursday 12th February to see a 3D version of Disney’s ‘Bolt’

Year 11 and some year 10 pupils will be involved in an animation workshop working with AnimnationNation.

Pupils will plan, film and edit a short stop animation film

See also - Animated Film

www.imdb.com (Weblink)

www.youtube.com (Weblink)

www.disney.co.uk/movies (Weblink)

annecy.org/home/index.php?Page_ID=2 (Weblink)

www.pixar.com (Weblink)

www.aardman.com/ (Weblink)

www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html (Weblink)

See also - News in Print & Electronic Media

www.headliners.org (Weblink)

www.digg.com (Weblink)

news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews (Weblink)

www.youthnoise.com (Weblink)

www.channel4.com/news (Weblink)

www.thesun.co.uk (Weblink)

www.news.yahoo.com (Weblink)

www.news.sky.com/skynews (Weblink)

www.itn.co.uk (Weblink)

www.mirror.co.uk (Weblink)

www.timesonline.co.uk (Weblink)

www.foxnews.com (Weblink)

www.news.google.com (Weblink)

www.dailymail.co.uk (Weblink)

www.guardian.co.uk (Weblink)