New Term

With the new term we will be starting this week on developing your evaluations. The focus on Monday's lessons will be to cover the following.

• Assessment and audit of AP - any group which has not finished the research, planning production and post production for the three products (MV, Digipak and Advert) will be expected to attend the extra curricula sessions on Tuesday after school until they have completed all.
• Planning of answers to the 4 evaluation questions - groups will produce a detailed one page plan for each questions detailing how they propose to answer. This should include an overview of the technical processes - use of video, stills, voice over, diagrams, audio etc. It is possible to answer all four questions in a single video or approximately 10mins. The key to success will be organisation, clarity, referencing and use of media terminology and theory. Level 4 is achievable if your work is not only well informed and coherent but also demonstrates flair through well chosen use of technology. (A good example of this is Rebecca Dunne and Lauren Humphrey's evaluation for this music video last year which was awarded 20 out of 20 - from memory.)

On Thursday we will begin looking at Collective Identity and Representation with a focus on Britishness and what this means. Each week we will look at texts related to Britishness and discuss how these texts reflect the collective identity of our nation. You will be encouraged to read widely and each week you will be expected to present from your reading something new you have explored relating to collective identity.

Things to consider:

• definitions of Britishness
• Britishness through sport and the arts
• The black British experience
• White working class British identity
• Asian Britishness and Imperialism
• British identity in flux - 1950 - 2014
• Royal Britishness
• English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish
• Values of Britishness

Text to begin viewing:

• British TV drama: soaps, Sherlock, doctor Who etc. how are values expressed, who is British identity developed and maintained.
• British comedy: stand-ups, sit-com etc. commentary on 
• documentaries which look at Britain: especially Charlie Brooker's 'Weekly Wipe', compare with news and newspapers
• British films: Harry Potter series, Bond, anything by working title - what makes them British, how do they develop identity of Britishness.
• TV news - especially BBC
• Newspapers: a range from The Sun, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Times - differences and similarities.

For your information ALL PREPS have been cancelled and instead any student with unfinished HW will attend detention with their subject teacher - for me that means either Tuesday after school OR Friday after school (this week it will be Friday)

A2 AP End of Autumn