Media Course for CV - Ravensbourne Summer School

Here's the link for that summer camp I told you about today:

We were wondering if you had any Year 12 students who would like to sign up to our Summer school - they would need to be on media, fashion & textiles, photography or graphics courses so please forward to your colleagues in those departments.
Here are the details:

 Ravensbourne Summer School

Students will be put into six groups representing each decade from the 1950’s to the 00’s.  Each group will have 5 media/broadcasting students, 2 Photography Students, 5 fashion students and 2/3 graphics students.
Students will be required to research their assigned decade with the aim of putting together a short show reel, showcasing their decade, which could be used as part of their university portfolio.
Fashion students will design and produce the costumes. They will be given materials and mannequins to work with. The final costume will be showcased in their show reel.
Graphics/Moving Image students will design and produce the graphics for the show reel. They will learn new techniques in graphic design software.
Broadcast/Media will learn about all aspects of filmmaking. They will film the activities of the fashion and graphics students and will carry out interviews with team members. They will film and edit the final show reel.
Photography students will photograph the activities of their team members and the final costumes and use their images to help put together the final showreel.
Ravensbourne Summer School will take place on 1 - 4 July 2013, between 09:30 and 17:00.  Please encourage your Year 12 students to sign up to the project as it will look good in their portfolio and it will also be great fun!
STUDENTS WILL NEED TO BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND ALL 4 DAYS OF SUMMER SCHOOL.
Please ask your students to book their place via Eventbrite using the link below.
www.ravensbournesummerschool.eventbrite.co.uk

Many thanks 

Kate Camp

Widening Participation

Ravensbourne

0203 0403645

k.camp@rave.ac.uk

Fronter Vids - Exam Revision

I've just put a load of revision/help vids onto our Fronter page.

There are 4 for section A (tv drama) and 4 for section B (audiences and films).

I didn't make them (no need to reinvent the wheel) but some Irish teacher has and they're absolutely brilliant!!

You'd be fools not to watch, pause, write down, learn off by heart, all the stuff he says..

Films all done!

Yay!

Today's lesson was MOST stress-relieving as ALL of the groups have (pretty much) finished their openings - brilliant.

Now you need to all move on to producing your Evaluations.

Have a look at a couple from last year (click on their names) - Elisha, Charlotte, Daisy.

You all have to address the following 7 questions:

Evaluation questions.

•  In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 
•   How does your film opening represent particular social groups? 
•  What kind of media institution might distribute your film opening and why? 
•  Who would be the audience for your film opening? 
•  How did you attract/address your audience? 
•  What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this film opening? 
•  Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final film opening?

Different ways of doing them - you can do it in pairs/threes, but if you do, you must identify yourselves clearly in each film and make sure that you all get to play an equal part in it.

Some evaluations from other centres:



I really don't think his is a good one to mimic...

Exam work now on Fronter

All exam work, both for section A and B is now on Fronter.

I won't be using this blog - we'll keep it separate, for ease of organisation.

So:

Blog = G321 Film Production

Fronter = G322 A:  Textual Analysis and Representation (TV Drama clip)

                          B:  Institutions and Audiences

This is what our page now looks like:

I've put ALL the past papers in there, at the top, along with links to the YouTube clips used in the actual exams.  Just click on any of them.

Exemplary student responses are aplenty but are all hard copies so make sure you're in lessons for those.  I'll start on Wed 30 Jan.

2 Fantastic PPTs

This one for Film Production (coursework):

Foundation Portfolio Guide: Video Production from Belinda Raji




And this one for both sections of the Exam:

G322 revision from scargman

eBook from OCR

We now have a free Media Studies AS text book from OCR.

http://my.dynamic-learning.co.uk/Default.aspx?cid=30169

Centre ID:              30169

Student username:  ocrmedas

Student password:  student


Once signed in, you should see this:

Click on the Media Studies book icon and then on the 'pages overview' tab:

This takes you to the whole text ebook - the contents look like this:

And down the right hand side, you can see it by page:

Have a look by Wednesday's lesson - I'll be going through it then and it'll help if you're already familiar with the format.

From Pete's blog

This was on Pete's latest post - a students' opening two minutes from last year:



What do you all think?  Get it onto your blogs and then analyse it..


Also, here's a useful ppt from him about how to do well with your production work:

 

Untitled from PGCEmedia