The document outlines the course requirements for an A2 Media Studies class, which includes representing the working class in various media formats like film reviews, documentaries, articles, and radio ads. Students will analyze representations of the working class in the film "Pride" and discuss theories of representation, mediation, and ideology. They will write a 2-hour paper and have the option to participate in an extended media project for an additional qualification. As a preliminary task, students created a radio film review of "Pride" analyzing its portrayal of working class lifestyle and incorporating codes and conventions of radio broadcasts. Feedback showed the review would encourage watching the film and had effective editing, convention use, and fitting background music and sound clips.

1. A2 Media Studies
Keren, Becky and Jac

2. Course Outline
• Representation of working class
• Radio – Film Review advert
• 5 minute documentary in groups
• Double page article promoting documentary
• Radio advert for promotion of documentary
• 2 hour written paper with 2 sections
• Can participate in the Media Academy which is
conjoined with an EPQ and will gain you an AS grade
Preliminary work

3. Working class work in
class
• We first discussed what representation, mediation and
ideologies were.
• Then looked at Stuart Hall’s theory of encoding and decoding
(Preferred reading, negotiated reading, oppositional reader)
This also links in with the active and passive audience theory
as well as the hypodermic needle theory.
• We later discussed WHO is being represented in Pride, WHAT
jobs they carry out, HOW the representation is created as well
as WHY are they being represented in this way and WHAT the
effect of the representation was on the audience. We also
discussed three positive representations and three negative
representations of working class.
• Ties in with mediation and can effect and is effected by
ideologies.

4. Prelim task
• First we watched Pride and made notes on the working class
lifestyle.
• We listened to several radio shows and made notes on the
codes and conventions
• We planned and wrote a script for our own radio show which
would focus on the working class lifestyle of Pride
• We then recorded it on the voice recorder
• Then edited it on Garage band whilst making our own
background music.
• https://soundcloud.com/user-348306084/film-review-becky-
keren-jac

5. Conclusion
1. Would our Film Review make you want to watch the
film?
Of the 13 people we asked, 100% of them said that our Film
Review would make them watch the film.
Yes
No

6. Conclusion
• 2. Does the Editing of the Film Review make it easy to
listen to?
• When it came to looking at the results, 92% of people said it
was easy to listen too, however 8% (which was one person)
said it wasn’t “awful” but the music was very loud compared
to the speech.
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Yes No

7. Conclusion
• 3. How effective was our use of following conventions in
our film review?
• Everyone was positive with their feedbacks, as they all
stated that our convention following was either “good” or
“very good”.

8. Conclusion
• 4. Do the music and sound clips fit with the overall film
review?
• 100% of people said that our clips fitted well within the
review with some statements saying that our music was
effective, catchy and “different”.