Year 13 Homework 13/10/15

Due next Monday please, everyone:

Activity 1

Look into your crystal ball and see if you can guess the future of digital technology how will media institutions be distributing their texts and content in 20 years time. Set up a discussion group. How will you receive your TV programmes? What institutions will still be around in 20 years time – the BBC, Virgin Media, News International? Maybe you will work for one of these groups – what sort of thing might you be doing?

Activity 2

In the music business the sale of CDs has fallen to a new low threatening the CD format as a viable product – how should music be distributed? Look at it from the Point Of View (POV) of a musician wanting to make a living out of recorded music, and of an institution trying to market and make a profit out of selling music.

Year 12 Homework 12/10/15

Complete a written detailed analysis of the use of sound in the opening sequence of the film Trainspotting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2aEG35lsls

This will be your assessed piece for the last assessment drop of the half term. It is due by next Monday 19th October as a post on your blog, linked to this post.

I also need a hard copy in the lesson on the due date.

Remember the resources from class are available on the network in school if you want to refer to them.

Wider reading about contemporary media issues

I will begin to add blogs and Twitter accounts on here that will help you stay abreast of current issues in the media. Your starting point is The Guardian's media pages:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/media

They also have a Twitter account you can follow. If anyone else finds a good source for contemporary media issues, please post about it in this thread.

Year 13 Homework 6/10/15

I want you to do some research into the post-Levenson regulation of the press please and also into the review of the BBC charter by the Culture Secretary and the issues around its governance and regulation. Finally, please find out what proposals are being floated for Channel 4's future.

This is due by Monday 12th October as a blog post with a link in this thread.

Year 12 Homework 5/10/15

Your homework is to complete the Cinematography quiz from the lesson. If you were absent (a worryingly large number of you, actually), you can find it here on the school network:

W:\Media Studies\Year 12\Media Language - Cinematography (Slides 32 - 37)

Please post your answers on your own blogs and link them into the comments on here.

It's due by next Monday (that's Monday 12th October, Bailey - not April!!!).

Cheers,

Mr Natton.

Year 12 Student Blogs

Morning everyone. Can you please provide your own blog address in the comments section of this post please?

Ta.