lesson plan for BTEC Unit 1

1. BIG PICTURE
Overview of the unit – an
introduction to Representations
KEYWORDS
Representations – Analysis –
Micro elements –
Cinematography – Editing –
Mise en Scene - Sound
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Develop skills in reading media texts and taking
focused notes about specific issues
SUCCESS CRITERIA
• Organised notes about micro issues
• Answers to questions on still images
Take your seat. Bag under your desk.
Have your equipment and planner out.
Unit 1 - Representations
• What are:-
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Mise en Scene
• Sound
• What interesting
things have you
noticed in what you've
watched in the last
week?

2. TELL ME
STUFF!
TAKE ME
THROUGH
IT…
LET ME
HAVE A
GO…
DO I GET
IT?
1 2 3 4 5 6
SETTING THE
SCENE
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO LAST
TIME
PASSING ON
KNOWLEDGE
GUIDED PRACTICE
& MODELLING
INDEPENDENT
PRACTICE –
APPLYING THE
SKILLS TO NEW
SITUATIONS
ASSESSMENT &
FEEDBACK
PULL IT TOGETHER
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO NEXT
TIME

3. 1. Some key vocabulary for this week...
• Denotation - Red is a colour on the human-
visible spectrum with a wavelength of around
700 nanometers
• Connotations – Red means
• Danger
• Blood
• Lust
• Stop
• Fire
• Different political parties (depending on
where you are in the world)
• Various different sports teams
(depending on where you are in the
world and what you're interested in)
1. Denotation – The definition of
something – what it specifically
means
2. Connotations – All of the
different things that something
means
3. Intertextuality – making
meaning by using the audiences'
knowledge of other media texts
(or just 'of other things')

4. Intertextuality
• Making meaning by making
references to other media texts
• Almost everything does this to
some extent or another – some
things more than others
• Parody films – Scary Movie – only
works because we know what its
parodying – it is referring to our
knowledge of the other texts

5. Making notes – making focused notes on the
important issues – organising your ideas
If I want to dig into a film excerpt, I will
think about what it is I want to find out
more about.
Am I most interested in genre? Or in the
narrative development of this scene? Maybe
one of the characters?
Here I want to pay attention to how the
micro elements (like sound) are working –
so I will create sections on my page to make
different notes about different issues

6. Now you do this for the second part of the
extract – the scene where Oskar and Eli meet
Watch the extract and make notes
on the different cinematic issues. I
suggest watching it once more to get
a overview and then watching once,
whilst note taking, for each of the
different issues you need to focus
on.
And you can also think about the
big issues for this unit...
• What are the significant issues of
representation about in the
extract? Age Gender? Location?
Something else?
• What messages and values does
the extract suggest to you?
• How do the cinematic techniques
used do this?

7. Look at the questions from example exam paper on
a still image
1. What different issues might arise
when you are looking at still rather
than moving images?
2. What similar issues?
3. What different purposes might a still
image have?
4. Don't forget about Intertextuality as
a new big issue.

8. BIG
PICTURE
MY
LEARNING
How did this
lesson fit into
your other
lessons?
What is my
top take- away
from the
lesson?
Have you contributed to the lesson? Will you be able to improve
next lesson? Do you know what you need to go away and do?
o Keep up with new vocabulary
o Keep looking and watching as
students as well as fans – what
are you starting to notice when
you watch films or TV, or play
games, or wat