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!

Homework: timed essay

Sorry, I meant to post this on Monday after our lesson but forgot.

For those of you who were in the class, please finish the essay we planned:

Discuss the ways in which the extract (of Spooks) constructs the representation of ethnicity using the following:

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

For those of you who were not in class (mainly drama students), please watch the extract from Spooks (below) four times (as in your exam: once without taking notes, three times with) and then complete the essay above in 45 minutes.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM_X0uI2XvA&list=PLFB92252769CEE92F&index=20

Please get your completed essays to me before the end of the week so that I can mark them and return them to you in time for our next lesson.

Homework: Downton Abbey essay self-assessment

Your homework for Monday:

Using the discussion from today's lesson about exam technique and the pack I gave you, give yourself a mark for:

Explanation/Argument/Analysis (/20)
Use of examples (/20)
Media terminology (/10)

TOTAL: (/50)

There is a mark scheme in your exam technique pack.

Everyone who completes the self-assessment task will get their full feedback and marks in Monday's lesson.

(Jason, make sure you complete your essay and hand it in to me before I go home on Friday so that I can mark it over the weekend.)

Email me with blog changes

Just to confirm: when you have made the specific changes to your blog that I outlined in my coursework feedback, you need to email me (jky@cheney.oxon.sch.uk) directing me to the specific blog posts you have changed/added. That way, I'll be able to look at the specific changes you have made and see if there is enough there to bump you up by a mark or two. I will not have time to trawl through your entire blogs so I will only look at the posts you direct me to.

The deadline for you to email me is 3pm on Tuesday 15th April.

Mon 13th/Tues 14th April

Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a relaxing Easter holiday.

In today's lesson, I will give you your marks/feedback for your coursework. On your feedback sheet, I have listed two/three minor tweaks you could make to your coursework portfolios that might sneak you an extra mark or two.

You will have today's lesson and tomorrow's lesson (P5) to make these specific changes. This is not a deadline extension where you can make significant changes to your coursework as I have already marked your blogs in their entirety but I will delay moderating yours (with Mr Groves) until Wednesday so that you can make these last few tweaks (hence the Tues P5 deadline).

I won't be in our lesson on Tuesday as I will moderating coursework but Muzzy Ibrahim, a former Cheney Media student who is now studying Media at university will be coming in to help you out.

FYI, the approximate grade boundaries for the coursework are:
A: 80
B: 70
C: 60
D: 50
E: 40

When you finish this work:
If you complete this work please do a CAGED representation analysis for each of the main characters in your coursework final production. This will be the start point for the exam preparation we will be doing together for Section A of the exam.

Screen grabs

Some of you have been having problems getting screen grabs on the Macs. The ICT boys have had a look at this and have come back with the following solution:

The command +shift and 4 shortcut screen grab can't work because the defaults point to a location students can't get access.

However the actual utility program called screen grab works fine and you can get it in Applications > Utilities. You can choose from within this program where you want the screenshot. 

FINAL DEADLINE!

We are here: the FINAL deadline for your WHOLE Foundation Portfolio is FRIDAY 27th MARCH.

That means your blogs must be absolutely finished:

• Research & Planning - including any suggestions for improvement from my feedback last term
• Final video - have this as your top blog post so that it's the first thing anyone visiting your blog sees
• Evaluation - look at all the advice in the blog posts below for how to approach this

Our LAST lesson before the deadline in Thursday. By this lesson you should have finished your blog. That way I can give you some last-minute feedback on improvements you could make in the subsequent 24 hours in order to achieve maximum marks.

ALL WORK THEREFORE NEEDS TO BE DONE BY THURSDAY!