Hope everyone is enjoying their first half term of A level Media Studies!! By now you should all have completed the main body of your research into existing media and you should be at the point of brainstorming your own thriller opening. Below is a table of dates and tasks to complete for the overview of the year:
Date
|
Topic
|
Exam / Coursework
|
Teacher
|
|
Sept:
2
weeks
|
Setting
up blogs.
Introduction
to course. Setting up and using a camera
Research
of existing media : Saul Bass, Other
thrillers
|
Course
Work
|
JS/KC
|
|
Sept
2
weeks
|
Introduction.
Key Concepts – Representation, Audiences, Institutions, Narrative, Genre
|
Exam Work
|
JS
|
|
Sept/Oct
4 weeks
|
Making
a short film – show video
What
is continuity editing?
Film
and edit continuity piece.
Sub
–genres, Plot, character analysis – connect to narrative theory.
|
Coursework
|
JS
KC
|
|
Sept/Oct
4
weeks
|
Introduction
to key terms – Mise en scene, use of camera, editing, sound.
What
is TV drama ? Outline of different types of drama. Begin analysis – starting
with stills.
|
Homework
Stills
analysis
|
JS
|
|
Oct
Last
week
|
TV Drama analysis
Homework : Analysis of thriller opening
sequence.
|
Assessment
|
JS
KC
|
|
|
Half-
Term
|
|
|
|
Nov
4
weeks
|
TV
Drama analysis. Serial Drama – Cutting
It (representation of gender) Court room drama – Criminal Justice (representation of the law) Bleak House
|
Homework
Essays
|
JS
|
|
Nov
4
weeks
|
Storyboards / scripts / shooting schedules to be
drawn up. Filming to start. To be completed by Nov 30th. |
Blogs
|
KC
|
|
Dec
4
Weeks
|
TV Drama
Timed
exam-type question
Film
editing .Completed by Xmas.
Show
case. Audience response.
|
Assessment
|
JS/KC
|
|
|
Christmas
Holidays
|
|
|
|
Jan
- March
|
TV Drama contd.
Teen
Drama – Skins
Soap
Opera – Eastenders, Hollyoaks
Period
Drama – Oliver, Bleak House
Cop Drama – The Bill, Cops |
Assessment
Textual Analysis
Essay
|
JS
|
|
Jan-Mar
10
weeks
|
Evaluations
Final
Editing based on feedback .
Production Blog Deadline
– March 28th
|
Coursework
C/W
|
JS/KC
|
|
April
|
Audiences/Institutions
British
Film company case studies Film Four,
Working Title
|
Homework
Case
Studies
|
JS/KC
|
|
|
Easter Holidays
|
|
|
|
May
/June
6
weeks
|
Section B Exam
preparation
Final
deadline for completion of C/W - 22nd May
|
Exam
/ C/W
|
JS/KC
|
|
May
2
weeks
|
Audience
response.
Practice
exam essays
|
Weekly exam practice
|
JS
|
|
June
/July
3
weeks
|
Exam
Preparation
|
|
JS/KC
|
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