Revision Questions

1. What does the word genre literally mean?  1 mark
2. How does the concept of genre help audiences understand media texts?  2 marks
3. Give three ways audiences can identify genre.  3 marks
4. Using two examples, identify how can genre be understood in terms of narrative themes and structure. 4 marks

Year 13 Deadlines

Try and complete your Teen trailers for evaluation by the 21st March.

For the evaluation you will need to get feeedback from a varity of people.
How are you going to do this?

Year 12 deadlines

Don't forget that the deadline for all of your coursework completed and in is the 30th march.
You should be starting to collect all of you research in oreder to complete your research evaluation.

Make sure that you have at least one annotated DVD cover and Two annotated Posters to include in your work

Year 13 Students

Remember to check your filming for a variety of techniques that will get you Level 4.
Look at some of the other teen drama trailers on youtube to see how yours compares.
You need to have a selection of transistion techniques as well as covering the themes and issues of teen dramas.

Research task 1 for year 12 students

In no more than 1200 - 1600 words you will need to write an evaluation of your production piece and you will also need to explain how your shooting script helped you to create your final production pieces.

 

Step 1

Write a brief introduction to discuss your shooting script and what your genre and storyline is.

My first post

To all of my media students year 12 and 13.
Please follow regularly to check if there are any activities you need to complete.