This document provides an overview of the Media Studies program at Sir John Deane's College. It discusses the various media forms that will be covered, including television, film, newspapers, magazines, advertising, and the internet. It then focuses on an introductory lesson about film trailers, comparing teaser and main trailers, identifying the key conventions of trailers, and explaining that distributors produce trailers as part of their marketing campaign for films. The lesson concludes by having students watch and assess a trailer made by previous media studies students.

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Welcome to
Media Studies
at
Sir John Deane’s College

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• In Media Studies, you will learn about
different media forms – Television, Film,
Radio, Newspapers, Magazines,
Advertising, Internet publications and
Gaming
Intro to Media Studies

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Intro to Media Studies
• You can make a range of moving image
productions
• In Media Studies you could make a film trailer for
any film genre or a print marketing campaign for a
media product or brand.
• In Media Studies you will learn how and why
media products are made.

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Film Trailers

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In this session we will:
1. Compare and contrast two types of trailer
2. Explain the differences between them
3. Identify the main conventions of trailers
4. Work out who makes trailers and why

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And it’s going to be competitive
• There will be questions
• Answer on your task sheet first (solo work)
• Discuss with your team
• Nothing on your task sheets = lost point!

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There will be a prize
• I will award points and the group with the
most points at the end of the lesson will be
named the winners!
• There will be opportunities for bonus points
• Decide on a name for your group – it must
be film based

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So let’s begin
• Watch the following trailers
• Trailer One
• Trailer Two
• Make notes on your task sheet –
What are the differences between the
trailers?

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Types of Trailers
• Q1. What’s the MAIN difference between
the two trailers you’ve just seen?
• Q2. What are some other differences
between these two trailers?
• Q3. Name those two types of trailer?
• Q4. Why do you think both types are
produced?

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Conventions of Trailers
• Conventions are the main features of (in
this case) trailers – you recognise trailers
because of these common conventions
• Q5. What are the conventions of trailers?
Your comparisons between the two trailers will help you figure this out.

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Who Makes Trailers
• Q6. Watch this trailer and see if you can
work out who makes trailers
• Q7. Building on Q4. – why do they
make film trailers?

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Summary
• There are different types of trailers –
teaser and main trailers (there can be
several version of the main trailer too)
• We recognise trailers because of their
conventions
• Film distributors produce trailers as one
part of their marketing campaign for a film

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Watch a Student Trailer
• This year some of our students made film
trailers as part of their assessed
coursework
• Watch one of these trailers now and
assess it:
• Does it feature the conventions?
• Does it make you want to see the film?

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END
• We hope you enjoyed this taster lesson
• We do a lot more than this in Media and
Film Studies
• If you want to know more or you have
some specific questions then come to the
Open Evening on Thursday June 25th or
email us on booth_e@sjd.ac.uk