Thursday 9 July 2015

Year 12 / 13 Initial Music Video Research

So find your 'Creative / Ideological / Unique / Interesting videos'  and post them up here or as prezi links.

You must answer these questions also:


1.Why is this video Creative ?

2.What techniques are on display ?

3.How does it differ to other genre videos?

4.How could you use these ideas in your project next year?

5.What do the target audience / youtube community have to say about it ?


Good luck

Monday 8 June 2015

The preliminary material : How to prepare

Just as a reminder really that the pre-lim material is asking you to get in role as someone who is thinking of creating an idea for a new early evening TV news show called 'News burst' on the TNN channel.

The brief asks for: 

How are you going to appeal to 16-24 year olds with engaging news, that is of award winning quality. That is also the first to break new stories and uses a youthful style approach.

They want your ideas for an opening sequence and social / web media.


So from this your questions will probably be :

Q1: A knowledge based essay question in which you are asked to respond to two or three bullet points (+any other things you can think of in your conclusion) about a question such as...

What makes broadcast news successfull?

or

How does Broadcast news currently try to appeal to its audience?


You need to focus first on the bullet points and write detailed paragraphs using examples from real news shows.

Use terminology and theory: e.g:
Uses and Gratifications theory, Narrative theory (e.g; todorov and propp), Infotainment, Galtung and Ruges News values, Impartiality and bias, Mise en scene; (to create authority and trust), Representation theory such as institutional gate keeping and stereotyping. Regulation from OFCOM. 


Q2: A pitch where you explain your ideas for the NEWSBURST show.

Its early evening on TNN channel.

You come up with the rest. Make sure you mention, presenters, studio, colour scheme and style. Style of reporting, types of stories. Mode of address, Special effects and graphics, interviews, logo and fonts, music etc.. and justify all your choices with good reference to the target audience.

You will need to explain which 3 stories you picked from the 6 they gave you and why
Use audience research data from your class book to help back up your ideas.


Q3: A storyboard for an opening sequence, that is 30 seconds long

Try and practice this before hand, time yourself doing it in 23 minutes, only use splashes of colour. Make sure you have a good range of shot types, lots of news iconography. Show the main stories and finish in the studio with the anchor.


Q4: The hardest one to predict but it will probably be something about your ideas and how they relate to the brief so it will have some overlap with Q2. It will probably also ask you for your ideas in social media and the web so come up with 5 or 6 really specific and detailed ideas for a range of social media, e,g twitter, instagram, etc



Ok year 11 good luck, you need to be practicing these questions at home and showing me them for feedback, you could even post them here as comments for feedback or leave a link to a photo of your handwritten efforts somehow !

Good luck

Friday 5 June 2015

Useful blog + video

So to help you revise here is another school revision website to help you. Have a look at the list fo topics on the right hand side of the page and it should help you.


Also we talked about otehr alternatives to TV News and social media and here is a short video clip to help you:


Tuesday 19 May 2015

Youth Branding: What do 16-24 year olds want from their news

This article might help:
http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2012/oct/25/future-marketing-youth

Try reading it and making notes about what it says the youth buy and like.

How are you going to brand  'News Burst'? Look at the logos below and decide whether it is would engage the youth  or not ?

 
If we take a look at specific youth brands then this might help also:

 
 

Monday 27 April 2015

Mock Exam feedback: Questions 1-4

So over the last week or so we have been trying to improve our exam technique and erformance by looking at the questions individually and seeing what needs to be done to reach A* standard.

The prezis and resources we used are below


Tuesday 21 April 2015

Last week's Key words: Impartiality, Vox Pops, Breaking news

These are 3 things that TV news does to help it become more successful. You can talk about these things in question 1 of your exam. Here are the lesson notes and resources.


Wednesday 25 March 2015

EASTER REVISION MATERIALS

Below you will find the materials that i printed out into a booklet for you. If you want a copy of them come to B112 and get one.





OFCOM + Regulation of News

Creating a pitch

These cards might help you think about the basic information you need ton include in an exam style question.

Design your own style revision card of your TV news concept:

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Mock Exam + Revision Help

So a numebr of you have tracked me down this week and asked how to revise for Friday's mock exam. Well here are some tips.

Firstly here is the preliminary material for the mock:

So what you need to do is go through it and highlight what you think they will ask you to do in an exam.

You will have to prepare a pitch for a product that meets the demands of the brief.


In an exam:

1 question will be around KNOWLEDGE OF EXISTING TV NEWS PROGRAMMES.. So an essay type answer explaining what makes real tv news show successful is what you need to prepare.

1 question will definitely ask you to PITCH YOUR NEW IDEAS for a new TV News show. You might be asked to comment on any of the following : Title, studio layout, Presenters, Colour scheme, House style, Types of Stories, Social Media usage etc etc ..

1 question will be a PRACTICAL DESIGN TASK : Storyboard for a credits sequence or a Design for a Website for your show, So you need to practice doing this at home in 20 minutes max

1 question could also be about how your ideas and design work MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE BRIEF AND TARGET AUDIENCE ( look at the prelim material above) So you need to justify your ideas in relation to Audience theory we have learnt in class.


Remember in any exam you need to try and use MEDIA TERMINOLOGY throughout and try and work it into your work at all times.

Ok 1 last thing is that apart from your books you can use the websites listed on this site especially :

http://haverstockmedia.com/broadcast-news-exam-gcse-201/

and

http://zigzageducation.co.uk/downloads/Media/5672-GCSE-AQA-Unit1-TV-News-Teaching-Pack-2015-Exam.htm

There are loads of great resources on here, any more questions then eitehr come and find me in B112 or leave a comment here

Thanks

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Lesson Work : Designing a news studio

Great work today in lesson year 11. Here are some of the news studios you created. I didn't receive all of them but hopefully these will get you thinking about creating your own brand.






Wednesday 25 February 2015

Thursday 12 February 2015

Mock Exam

So this week we sat a mock exam for just over 1hr 30 minutes . Having our first attempt at what a real exam might be like. Although we didn't have the preliminary material / brief to work with.

The mock exam is below:





As I explained in class the preliminary material is released 4 weeks before the exam, and usually sets it up as a creative brief for us to work on. 

Below is the one from a couple of years ago, about Music Press:








Past paper_ TV Crime Drama

TV crime drama - Mark Scheme:


Tuesday 3 February 2015

Year 11 Cover Work Period 1 + 4 Wednesday 4th Feb

Starter:

Watch the following clips and try to find 10 conventions of broadcast news intro titles:
(watch all 8 if necessary)



Main Activity:
Using the storyboard sheets provided (in one of the blue trays at front by the board!)

Try to storyboard a 20-30 second News Intro titles for a new news programme you have created.



Plenary:

Identify (in your books) how you have used conventions of real credits sequences in your own designs and how you have tried to appeal to you audience.



Cross media News lesson

Year 11 Lesson: Audience Research


Using the resources below can you try and find out the answers to the following questions:


A power point from Reuters News Agency:

1. What are the key findings of the reuters investigation ?
2. What percentage of people in the UK are interested in the news and how many are less interested?
3. Which country seems to be the most interested in the news?
4.What is the split in the UK between the 4 different platforms in terms of how people access news?
5. What are the three most popular types of news for people in the UK?
5. By how much has smartphone and tablet use of news grown in the UK in 2014?
6. Which age ranges generally use smartphones to access the news?
7. At what two times during the day does interest in news peak ?
8. Where are the top two places to access news (for uk consumers)?
9. What share of the market do new news companies like huffington post and buzzed have in the UK?
10. What are the top 3 social networks for news?


A selection of slides from OFCOM





Questions:
Which group in society consumes the most news across the 4 major platforms?

What is the single most important news source for adults in the UK?

What percentage of adults watch news?

What percentage of people use the internet as their primary source of news? what about TV?

What percentage of people only use BBCone for their news?

What percentage use three or fewer providers?

(fig.39) What percentage of 16-24s watch video news clips ? and make their own video news clips?



FINAL TASK:

(Answer in the comments section on this post)

What do you think news broadcasting companies can do to increase their share of the 16-24 market?
(300 words)

Tuesday 27 January 2015

Representations of Youth

Use this prezi to answer:

Does Broadcast News construct a stereotypical representation of British Youth?


Sunday 11 January 2015

Lesson 4 : News Values + Homework worksheet

Ok this is really important concept to understand and explore. We will be coming back to this so if you have any questions please let me know.

The Homework sheet is at the bottom also !

Thanks


Lesson 3 : More Conventions !

Tuesday 6 January 2015

Lesson 1

Here are the slides / notes for lesson 1 :


Welcome

Hi everyone, here yopu can find lots of useful resources to help you prepare for the upcoming Media Studies AQA GCSE exam in spring / summer 2015.

Our set topic is  'BROADCAST NEWS' .

If you have any questions please add a comment on any of the posts on this site and i will get back to you.

I will be uploading the materials we study in class lesson by lesson so keep chekcing bakc here for more information as we get closer to the exam

Enjoy !