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| Here's a provisional rundown of what you will be doing next year. Click to see full size. |
Autumn term - Magazine production and the TV industry
As soon as you come back after the long summer holiday, you'll be thrown in to your next piece of assessed practical work, the magazine project. This forms part of the cross media production, and will give you an opportunity to create a definite style and personality for the artist or band you created for your music video . This should take you up to the half term holiday.
After the magazine project, it's back to the exam, specifically component two, for the TV unit. We're really looking forward to teaching this one, as you'll be studying two of the best shows of the last ten years. Humans is a British remake of a Swedish science fiction show that explores the ethics of using robots for housework work and sex work. And Les Revenants (The Returned) is an excellent postmodern horror series filled with creepiness and moody French teenagers chain smoking. We'll be comparing and contrasting these two programmes, and exploring them in terms of representation, media language, industry contexts and audience responses. If you want to get a head start, we recommend checking out these shows.
In this term, you will also start and complete your UCAS applications. At this stage, you may start to visit universities too. Make sure you let your teacher know if you're applying to university, especially to a film, media, arts or humanities related degree, as we can give lots of suggestions.Spring term - Radio, videogames and online media
After you get back from the Christmas holiday, you'll be surprised by a complete change of pace, as you will cover three industries in just one half term! For two weeks, you'll be exploring the radio industry and looking at Late Night Woman's Hour as a case study. And for the next two weeks, you'll study the videogame industry, with Assassin's Creed III: Liberation as your main case study. We're pretty confused as to why we're studying the PS4 port of a 2012 Vita game, but we're sure the exam board know what they're doing. Both these are short topics, similar to your work on the film industry, and you will be focussing on industry and audience concerns for both of them.
After these two brief studies, you'll start the final topic, online media, which like magazines and TV, will explore all four media frameworks; media language, representation, audience and industry. We'll be looking at the fashion/lifestyle vlogger Zoella, and exploring the Gay Times website. We'll also be looking at lots of other examples of websites, uses of social media, and exploring how the internet has shaped our society.The final week of this half term is provisionally a mock exam week. We all know what this means!
Summer term - Revision, and farewell!
It's sad to be thinking of the end already, but the summer term is when you will sit your final exam. In order to prepare for this, you will have at least six weeks of dedicated revision. The final exam is nothing to be concerned about, as long as you remember to prioritise revision above other things for a while. You've all worked hard for this!
Your have been provisionally announced as being on the following dates. When this is confirmed we will let you know.