Media ppt Curriculum Choices 2019
KS4 Subject Information for Parents / Students
Please see below some information about the course covered during Key Stage 4. You will also find more information about the knowledge and skills covered booklet in a hyperlink below. During each half-term your child will have regular ‘learning checks’ to assess how well they are progressing against the expected standards. If they do not reach the expected standard in any of these checks, they should be seeking help from their teacher regarding the best possible steps. Teachers will also be sharing with students examples of how to go ‘beyond the expected standards ‘and providing additional challenge.
Y9 – Minimum Expected standards
Y10 – Minimum Expected standards
Y11 – Minimum Expected standards
KS4 Subject Information for Parents / Students
| Subject:
Media Studies |
| GCSE Exam board:
Y10 –11 WJEC, EDUQAS |
| Year 9- Exploration of core skills
This is a foundation year for the GCSE course in which students will: · Explore the theoretical framework in relation to media language, representations, media industries and audiences · Be introduced to a range of rich and stimulating products (similar to the set products studied in year 10) · Attempt examination questions that require analysis, extended responses and comparison of media products · Create production work using imaginative techniques.
Year 9 topics include: · An introduction to Media Studies (including the marketing of films) · An Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives (including television crime drama- Sherlock) · An Introduction to Serial Television Drama (including creation of promotional materials) · An Introduction to Magazines (including GQ) · An Introduction to The Music Genre (including Bruno Mars) · An Introduction to Music Promotion (including creation of promotional materials)
Y10- WJEC, EDUQAS Year 10 topics include: · An introduction to the Theoretical Framework · Advertising and marketing (including Quality Street, This Girl Can, The Man with the Golden Gun, Spectre) · Magazines (GQ and Pride) · Newspapers (The Guardian and The Sun) · Video Games (Pokemon Go) · Component 3: Research, planning and production (magazine creation)
Y11- WJEC, EDUQAS Year 11 Topics include (new specification) · Television crime drama (Luther: Series 1, Episode 1) · Radio industry (The Archers: Full length episode) · Music industry (music videos including: Taylor Swift- ‘Bad Blood’, Pharrell Williams ‘Freedom’ and Michael Jackson ‘Black or White’) · Revision blocks (interleaving, including integrating year 10 content)
Theoretical Framework This GCSE Media Studies specification is based on the theoretical framework for exploring and creating media. The framework is based on four interrelated areas: ● Media language: how the media through their forms, codes and conventions communicate meanings ● Representation: how the media portray events, issues, individuals and social groups ● Media industries: how the media industries’ processes of production, distribution and circulation affect media forms and platforms ● Audiences: how media forms target, reach and address audiences, how audiences interpret and respond to them, and how members of audiences become producers themselves. The framework provides a holistic and focused approach to interpreting and analysing the media, which learners will develop progressively as they study the three components.
Component 1: Exploring the Media What’s assessed? Section A: Exploring Media Language and Representation This section assesses media language and representation in relation to two of the following print forms: magazines, marketing (film posters), newspapers, or print advertisements. There are two questions in this section. Section B: Exploring Media Industries and Audiences This section assesses two of the following media forms: Film, newspapers, radio, video games.
Assessed Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes 40% of qualification
Question types Section A: • One question assessing media language in relation to one set product (reference to relevant contexts may be required) • One two-part question assessing representation in relation to one set product and one unseen resources in the same form. Part (a) is based on media contexts. Part (b) requires comparison through an extended response. Section B: • One stepped question on media industries • One stepped question on Audiences.
Component 2: Understanding Media forms and Products What’s assessed? This component assesses all areas of the theoretical framework and contexts of the media in relation to television and music.
Section A: Television Section B: Music (music videos and online media) Assessed
Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes 30 % of qualification
Question types Section A: Television • One question on either media language or representation, which will be based on an extract from one of the set television programme episodes to be viewed in the examination (reference to media contexts may be required) • One question on media industries, audiences or media contexts. Section B: Music (music videos and online • One question on either media language or representation (reference to relevant contexts may be required) • One question on media industries, audiences or media contexts.
Component 3: Creating Media Products What’s assessed? An individual media production for an intended audience in response to a choice of briefs set by WJEC, applying knowledge and understanding of media language and representation.
Assessed Non- exam assessment 30 % of qualification |
| Year 9:
Autumn 1: An Introduction to Media Studies– Print focus – awareness of key concepts Autumn 2: An Introduction to Crime Drama –Moving Image focus – awareness of genre Spring 1: An Introduction to Television Serial Drama – Cross-media creative task Spring 2: An Introduction to Magazines -Representation of gender- comparative response Summer 1: An Introduction to Music Genre (including Bruno Mars) – awareness of genre Summer 2: An Introduction to Music Promotion – Cross-media creative task
Year 10 Autumn 1: Component One Section A: Advertising and marketing (Quality Street) Autumn 2: Component One Section A: Advertising and marketing (This Girl Can) Spring 1: Component One Section A: Newspapers (The Sun and The Guardian) Spring 1: Component One Section B: Newspapers (The Sun – Audience/ Industry) Spring 2: Full trial examination: Component 1 Spring 2: Component One Section B: Video Games (Pokémon Go – Audience/ Industry) Summer 1: Component 3: Submission of statement of Aims Summer 2: Component 3: Full coursework submission
Year 11 Autumn 1: Component Two: Section A (Luther: Key concepts including context) Autumn 2: Component 2: Section A (Luther and The Sweeney: Key concepts) Spring 1: Component Two: Section B (Music video and online media: Key concepts) Spring 2: Full trial examination: Component Two Summer 1: Component One Section A: Radio (The Archers- Audience / Industry) Students are assessed half termly and termly as well as internal and external mock examinations |
| Subject specific websites to support revision and independent learning:
https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/ztnygk7 https://www.sportengland.org/our-work/women/this-girl-can/ http://www.christies.com/features/Classic-James-Bond-movie-posters-6684-1.aspx http://pridemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/PrideMediaPack2015.pdf assets.condenast.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/static/mediapack/gq_media_pack_latest.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whoweare/ataglance
Websites of regulatory bodies: Ofcom – television and radio (including video-on-demand services) https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand BBFC – film (theatrical and DVD, also digital/ streaming), music videos (pilot scheme) http://www.bbfc.co.uk/ IPSO – magazines and newspapers https://www.ipso.co.uk/ IMPRESS – press regulator http://impress.press/ ASA – advertising https://www.asa.org.uk/About-ASA/About-regulation.aspx VSC – video games http://videostandards.org.uk/VSC / |
| Recommended subject guides:
A range of guides are available for on Amazon.co.uk for the WJEC (EDUQAS), Media Studies course, but perhaps the most useful is the following: WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Media Studies by Hayley Sheard. Published by Illumiate Publishing; (14 May 2018) ISBN: 1911208489
Wider reading: The Media Students’ Book by Gill Branston and Roy Stafford. Published by Routledge; 5thedition (27 May 2010) ISBN: 9780415558426 Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction by David Gauntlett. Published by Routledge; 2nd edition (18 March 2008); ISBN 9780415396615 Media Studies: Text, Production, Context by Paul Long and Tim Wall. Published by Routledge; 2nd edition (27 Jul 2012); ISBN: 9781408269510 Narrative and Genre: Key Concepts in Media Studies by Nick Lacey. Published by Palgrave Macmillan (22 Feb. 2000); ISBN: 978-0333658727 Image and Representation: Key Concepts in Media Studies by Nick Lacey. Published by Palgrave Macmillan (15 April 2009); ISBN: 978-0230203358 Media, Institutions and Audiences: Key Concepts in Media Studies by Nick Lacey. Published by Palgrave Macmillan (7 May 2002); ISBN: 978-0333658703
Luther Information: · BBC/public service broadcasting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whoweare/ataglance · Reviews: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7678585/Luther-BBC-Onereview.html · Global reach http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/luther · Writer’s blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/971e29c1-6a57-402c-b035- 689a9730a9d9
The Sweeney Background information: · http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/473709/index.html · http://www.tv.com/shows/the-sweeney/Culture/relevance
Media Magazine is published quarterly by The English and Media Centre. This is available on subscription only – for institutions or individuals. This covers a range of media issues, theories and texts with articles written by academics, media professionals, teachers and students- please ask your Media Studies teacher for the log in details. |
| Additional information:
· Homework projects: Students may be asked to complete pre-study booklets and pre-study tasks in preparation for lessons · The Media Department runs weekly study supports (on a Monday) to support our Y11 students (students in Y9/10 may also be asked to attend sessions intermittently) · Extension tasks and example questions are available upon request. |