From 10-12th February 2021, your teachers will be interviewing current year 11 students. Here's some stuff you could be getting up to during this time!
1 - Careers focused research and planning
Depending on whether you are in first year or second year, now might be a good time to consider potential career paths. You can use this time to research:
- Job opportunities
- Apprenticeships
- University courses
- FE courses
2 - Completing past paper questions
You can find almost every past paper question ever set by clicking here.
Remember to send me any answers you complete, so I can give you a bit of feedback!
3 - Immersing yourself in media
P block were tasked with recommending you guys easily available media to check out. Remember, the more media you read/watch/play, the better you get at media studies, so this is serious stuff!
Film
- Inception
- Hitch
- Babyteeth,
- la haine
- zodiac
- Gladiator
- shutter island
- seven
- Just Go With It
- the kings of summer
- Kinky Boots
- just like heaven
- Booksmart
- the babysitter
- Pretty Woman and A Star is Born
- Pulp fiction
- mean girls
- central intelligence
Music
- rex orange county
- lemon demon
- Noel Gallagher
- Red Hot Chilli Peppers
- Kaiser Chiefs
- The Wombats
- UMI
- Celeste
- Lolo zouai
- Mahalia
- gorillaz
- Tyler the creator
- mother mother
- sza
- doja cat
- two door cinema club
- Kanye west
- Khalid
- Mac miller, Kendrick Lamar and joji
- Weezer
- Nao
- Linkin park
- blink 182
- the offspring
- box car racer
- greenday
- good Charlotte
- nirvana
- foo fighters
- smashing pumpkins
- Radiohead
- the killers
- the network
- rage against the machine
- nofx
- bad religion
- pixies
- stray kids
- mint royale
- Halestorm
Podcasts
- JAKE BUGG
- DAVID DOBRIK
- "The Girls Bathroom"
- "Growing Up and Sometimes Down"
- sawbones
- 'get real' - dive studios
- The gurls talk podcast
- I weigh with jameela jamil,
- Private parts - Jamie Laing and Francis Boulle
- joe rogan
- Stephen tried
TV
- Peaky blinders
- wandavision
- Can't Get Get You Out Of My Head (BBC)
- on my block
- The Mandalorian
- Criminal Minds
- Musicals: The Greatest Show
- The Office (obviously the American one)
- Killing Eve
- Narcos
- The Queens Gambit
- Breaking Bad
- High School Musical
- Timless
- Peaky Blinders
- I am a Killer
- Hamilton
- When They See Us
- The OA
- Hannibal
- Stranger Things
- Skins
- Modern Family
- Euphoria
- Game Of Thrones
- One Tree Hill
- Ackley Bridge
- American Murder
- The Inbetweeners
- How To Get Away With Murder
4 - Find your next favorite podcast
Podcasts are digitally produced, digitally achieved audio recordings, similar to broadcast radio, but often with much lower production values. Podcasts are free from the financial constraints that affect many media products, and can often cover a wide and challenging range of conventions and genres.
Think of something you are genuinely interested in, and Google this interest followed by the word podcast. There are podcasts on absolutely everything, from true crime to retro videogames, from learning languages to music production. It's totally up to you what you check out, and you may find your next favorite podcast!
5 - Go for a really long walk
This might sound stupid, but one of the only things you can do now is go for a long walk. As long as you start and end in the same location, and as long as you don't go near anyone. It's fascinating to spend this time really getting to know where you live. You can combine this with 4 (listening to a podcast) and 6 (taking pictures)
6 - Start a photography blog
Photography is the basis of many media products, and a confident understanding of it can help you expand and develop your design skills. So why not start taking it seriously? Starting a blog means that people will judge your photography, and you need to make sure that you present it to the highest possible standard, and it will allow you to form a scrapbook of what works (and what doesn't work). Here's my photography blog if you want some inspiration!