Last lesson: Thur 21st May + Exam location

Preparation for our last lesson

It is our last lesson before the exam on Thursday. We will be looking at last-minute exam prep and essay technique.

Please watch this clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPBE6YNoP5w&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F&index=52) and complete the following essay. Hand it in to me on Wednesday so that I can mark it and return it to you for Thursday:

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of sexuality using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene

Exam location

Your exam on Friday morning will be held in the Community Hall, not the main Assembly Hall.

Practice exam questions

There are only EIGHT days until your AS Media Studies exam. The best preparation you can be doing now is to practise your essay technique. 

There are a number of exam questions on previous blog entries (see below) so if you haven't done any of those, they would be the best place to start.

If you have done all of those, here are some others that you could do.

Watch each video clip FOUR times

• First screening: watch and don't take notes
• Second screening: watch and take notes
• Take a break to make more detailed notes
• Third screening: watch and take notes
• Take a break
• Fourth screening: watch and take notes

The questions then follow exactly the same format every time:

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of ________________ using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition
• Editing
• Sound
• Mise-en-scene

For each video clip, I have detailed what aspect of representation to focus on.

IF YOU WRITE IT, I WILL MARK IT!

Eastenders (ethnicity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2voevj5R0-Q&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F&index=5

Eastenders (ethnicity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y094LCAUMTo&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F&index=6

Coming Down the Mountain (disability): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIcVhqcKukw&index=7&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F

Blackpool (Age): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L85qL5ph0J0&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F&index=8

The Street (class): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9pIZNag28&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F&index=10

Compulsion (ethnicity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzlH70WpO3c&index=22&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F

Casualty (disability): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOifqo5JQK8&index=44&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F

Touching the Velvet (sexuality): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPBE6YNoP5w&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F&index=52

Representation of Gender essay question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo7VoFlqexQ&index=42&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F

Watch the link above and answer the following essay question:

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of gender using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition

• Editing

• Sound

• Mise-en-scene

Documentary-making conference: Saturday 16th May

ST HILDA’S MEDIA NETWORK CONFERENCE

St Hilda’s College     University of Oxford

Jacqueline du Pre Building

SATURDAY 16^th MAY 2015

DOCUMENTARY-MAKING

for FILM, TV & RADIO

HEAR ALL ABOUT IT FROM THE PROFESSIONALS

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Bill Oddie, ornithologist, writer & broadcaster

Nicolas Kent, Creative Director, Oxford Film & TV

Ruth Sessions, Atlantic Productions

Clio Barnard, director

Sarah Gristwood, biographer, journalist & broadcaster

Simon Elmes, former Creative Director,

BBC Radio Documentaries Unit

Alexandra Griffiths, producer, BBC NHU

10.30 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.

(registration & coffee from 10 a.m.)

Tickets (to include lunch & all refreshments): 

Standard £45        Full-time students £20    St Hilda’s alumnae £32

Full programme & booking:-

   http://sthildasdocumentaryday.eventbrite.co.uk/

Lesson on Monday

For our lesson on Monday (P1), please can everyone bring:

• an essay you have written already, along with my feedback
• the handout on writing exam essays
• the camera/editing/sound/mise-en-scene word bank grid (if you weren't in the lesson on Thursday (eg Art exam), you won't have one of these but I will give you a copy in the lesson)

My room is being used so come to C25 (opposite).

Study leave

I was wrong when I said that coming to lessons during study leave was optional. School policy this year is that you have to come to lessons until you have sat the exam for that subject. As such, I will expect to see ALL of you in EVERY lesson until Friday 22nd May (unless you have an exam, obviously).

All our lessons will focus on exam technique for Section A. I will post all essay questions we look at in class/do for homework on my blog, so if you miss a lesson, check the blog for the work you need to do to catch up.

I am very aware that you have a lot of competing demands on your time in the next few weeks but the best possible preparation you can do for the exam is to PRACTISE.

Remember: if you write it, I will mark it.

Homework: Representation of disability in The Street

Here is the link to the extract from The Street that we looked at in today's lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80K5P1qqQOI&index=33&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F

Your question is:

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs representations of disability using the following:

• Camera shots, angles, movement and composition

• Editing

• Sound

• Mise-en-scene

You have already written your introduction, so give yourselves another 40 minutes to complete the essay, using the notes in your exam essay handout.

If you hand it in to me before the end of school on Wednesday, I will mark it and give you feedback in our lesson on Thursday. If you are unable to do this (eg you're involved in the Art exam) please get it to me as soon as you can.

Please hand write this essay (unless you use a laptop in the exam) and be strict with yourself in terms of timings (give yourself extra time if you get it in the exam). As well as practising essay technique, you also need to practise producing work under the conditions you will face in the exam.

Ethnicity in Spooks essay + Downton Abbey feedback

The following people have not handed in their essays for the 'Ethnicity in Spooks' question:

Imed
Dafina
Sophie
Jamie
Jason
Ella
Dylan
Eleanor
Daniel
Elliot

I cannot give you feedback on how to improve unless you hand in work.

Similarly, several of you have not come to collect your feedback/marks for the 'Class in Dowton Abbey' question:

Dafina
Sophie
Jason
Eleanor
Dylan
Elliot

YOU NEED TO TAKE MORE OWNERSHIP FOR YOUR LEARNING - THE EXAM IS ONLY THREE WEEKS AWAY!