DEADLINES FOR COURSEWORK AND EXAM DETAILS

A reminder about the deadline.

ASSIGNMENT 3

All Assignment 3 work must be completed by the 27th of March to allow me to mark and moderate your work.

My submission date is the 7th of May this means that I have to post everything off BEFORE that date and I have to have time to assemble the all your work to do this.

It is vital therefore that you have it all printed out in plastic wallets with a contents page and that it is REALLY CLEAR. You must have your film trailers/opening completed by this time too though I am not expecting them to be made into DVDs by the 27th - I will be doing this after the date.

CONTROLLED ASSESSMENTS


There will be 2 half day catch-up session in half term to complete any missing elements of your Controlled Assessment folders. This might include missing elements from previous Assignments 1 or 2.

EXAM

The exam brief will be given to us on Monday the 14th of May and from that date onwards, I cannot formally teach you but I will be 'guiding' you and I will be there to advise you if you are going the right way about your preparations. You will NEED to work independently in preparing for the exam and to have developed sophisticated responses to the brief.

The exam is to be held on the 14th of June in the afternoon and you CANNOT take any notes into it so whatever you did to prepare will have to be in your head.

Remember the best way to revise is actively using your notes and watching LOTS OF TV CRIME DRAMA critically.


FINALLY

We will be doing a mock exam in May based on a brief which I will give you on the 27th of March and which you will need to prepare for over the holiday.

TV CRIME DRAMA

Check the TV crime drama page for details of the homework.

Tuesday 7th February

Beginning to write the evaluation


Evaluation

Tuesday 10th January

Preparing for the exam.

Investigating the Media
TV Crime Drama

Opening task: set up your own TV Crime Drama page, set a range of research tasks including viewing of TV dramas, investigating the audience and the institutions.

These task could involve:

• Analysis of TV schedules on the main channels and working out what times of day and what days TV crime dramas are broadcast
• Analysis of the types of characters one might expect to find in a TV crime drama - protagonists, antagonists, think about Propp
• Analysis of crime formats: research involving watching a range of different TV crime dramas and thinking about how these dramas tell their stories - Todorov narrative theory.
• Analysis of audiences: for example, teenagers and working out how these audience find out about the TV Crime dramas they watch - focus on new technology and use of marketing through the internet, use of social networking. Thinking about Uses and Gratifications theory.

This week:

Home Learning

Watch a crime drama: focus on narrative and characters - what are the conventions of the narrative, how the crime is set up, what are the characters, how are they introduced, how is the crime solved.

Your notes on the Crime Drama you watch must be published on your new TV Crime Drama page by next Tuesday.

FRIDAY'S LESSON

P3

EDITING on film trailers/opening
Review

P4

Begin exam preparation

Homework

Watch crime drama on TV and identify codes and conventions of narrative

FIRST WEEK

Some deadline for Assignment 3

Editing

All groups are working towards completing the picture edit. The deadline for this is 20th of January.

Sound edit

To be completed using Garageband by half term.

Portfolio and Evaluation

Assembled 12 page portfolio
800 word evaluation
Completed by end of March.

Mr. Curran's Lessons

Below are the Powerpoints for Mr. Curran's Friday lessons.

Storyboards for Trailers

Practicing Production

Practicing Production II

Editing

Editing II - Audio