Most importantly, you also set goals for the coming weeks and months. Having a goal helps with organisation, and allows you to become a more effective Media Studies student.
This is earlier than we have ever done a learning conversation before. It's frankly a bit too early, but this is what needs to happen this year.
Please copy and paste these questions in to your blog, and then answer them. The more thought and detail you go in to your answers, the more rewarding the learning conversation will be
You will receive either a prompt to join a Teams meeting or you will receive a phone call to your mobile at some point during the following times.
Task one - answer these questions, and publish the answers as a blog post - this must be done before the collapsed lesson
Please copy and paste these questions in to your blog, and then answer them. The more thought and detail you go in to your answers, the more rewarding the learning conversation will be
- What do you think has gone particularly well so far this year? What are your strengths?
- What is stopping you from achieving your goals? What threats might you face, (for example not enough time, lack of organisation, pressure from other subjects...)
- Identify 3 specific targets for yourself for the rest of this year. They can be both academic and organisational goals.
- What grade do you want to achieve in media studies?
- Do you have any suggestions about the course?
- What job to you want to get after you've finished education (this can be really vague!)
- Did you do GCSE media? If so, what grade did you get?
Remote learning
- What equipment do you have access to at home, for example a computer, tablet, laptop, and/or phone?
Task two - learning conversation - this will happen (hopefully) during the first hour of the collapsed lesson
You will receive either a prompt to join a Teams meeting or you will receive a phone call to your mobile at some point during the following times.
It will likely be during the first hour of the breakout session, but we need to allow for technical difficulties
P block (you normally have a 09:00 lesson on Mondays) - Monday 28th September 09:00 - 12:00
Your learning conversation will be brief (approximately five to ten minutes) and will be conducted in breakout groups on Teams. These breakout groups will be the same as the group you were working in for the suspense sequence task. If you would like to talk to me individually, then you absolutely can; please just stay on the call after I dismiss the group.
P block (you normally have a 09:00 lesson on Mondays) - Monday 28th September 09:00 - 12:00
T block (you normally have a 13:05 lesson on Mondays) - Monday 28th September 13:00 - 16:00
R block (you normally have a 10:50 lesson on Tuesdays) - Tuesday 29th September 13:00 - 16:00
Your learning conversation will be brief (approximately five to ten minutes) and will be conducted in breakout groups on Teams. These breakout groups will be the same as the group you were working in for the suspense sequence task. If you would like to talk to me individually, then you absolutely can; please just stay on the call after I dismiss the group.
Other tasks:
These task are mandatory, and hopefully they are fairly laid back. You will be quizzed on the key terms you have learnt when you come back to college, so make sure you're prepared!
Task three - Barthe's five narrative codes
In media studies, we use theory to help make sense of how media products create meaning. Different things we see, hear or read in a media product all mean something for the audience, and the producer has worked hard to put this meaning in there.
Make sure you publish it on your blog after you've finished:
"If it's not on your blog, it doesn't exist"
Task four - the textual analysis toolkit
The textual analysis toolkit can be found under 'key resources' on the top right of the blog. You can also just click here.
The textual analysis toolkit is a list of words that you should be using every time you analyse something in media. We ask you to open it every lesson, and you are allowed to have it in front of you for almost every task (apart from some mock exams).
Find the print advertising part of the textual analysis toolkit. This will be your next subject.
Textually analyse the below image, making reference to the following terms and concepts:
- Layout and design
- Composition
- Images/photographs - camera shot type, angle, focus
- Font size, type of font (e.g. serif/sans serif), colour
- Mise-en-scène – colour, lighting, location, costume/dress, hair/make-up
- Graphics, logos etc.
- Language – slogan/tagline and copy
- Anchorage of images and text
- Hermeneutic codes
- Proairetic codes
- Referential codes
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| Click to see image in full size |
Task five- get your blog up to date and make it look nice
This is important! The posts you should have in your blog so far are:
- An 'all about me' list of your favourite media
- A post of abstract images
- A post of narrative and abstract images, combined to create a narrative, with a written explanation of this narrative
- An evaluation of your photo narrative
- A learning conversation post (which you should have just completed)
- A post with notes on Barthe's five narrative codes (with examples)
- OPTIONAL - Your summer work (unless you handed it in on paper)
