This document outlines the objectives, coursework, and activities for a GCSE Media Studies class. The objectives are to develop skills in analyzing media, practical skills like filmmaking, and creating magazines or comics. The coursework includes four pieces, one of which involves planning and creating an original media production. Other assignments can be written, practical, or a combination. There is also a timed exam. Topics covered include film narrative structure, writing a film treatment, creating a film budget, and practicing unusual camera shots.

1. MEDIA STUDIES TV FILM MAGAZINES COMICS ESSAYS TESTS SKILLS OF ANALYSIS PRACTICAL SKILLS MAKING A FILM TRAILER CREATING A MAGAZINE OR COMIC

3. AQA GCSE Media Studies COURSEWORK EXAM 4 Pieces. For one you plan & create a media production. The other 3 can be written or practical or a mixture of both One ‘timed test’ (3 hrs). This will be on And you will get some info beforehand 50% 50% 120marks 100 marks

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7. Film narrative: Average film length 2 hours Super-inventive to pack a story into this time

9. Equilibrium: Characters go about their daily business, unaware they are being watched… Aliens invade in ‘lightning’ and activate the buried ‘tripods’; begin to exterminate humankind Characters try and escape, find refuge, society begins to collapse as alien threat is more fully understood Military and other groups attempt to ‘fight back’, try to find aliens’ weaknesses Aliens succumb to cold virus, die; humankind left to re-build/re-start.

10. Paired task: Think of a film you have seen, and try and relate it to Todorov’s structure…

13. Told in ‘chapters’, like a book. Events are not in chronological order and often don’t make sense until the end

14. Told in ‘reverse’, because the lead character suffers from memory loss and is continually piecing his life together each day

15. Film Clip: ‘ Kill Bill: Volume 1’

16. Planet earth in the near future. We can cure/ have gotten rid off 99% of diseases and viruses. Life is good. Life expectancy has increased to 115. The world is at peace; nations have settled their differences. An alien spacecraft crashes to earth, and although the aliens are killed on impact, a deadly virus escapes and begins to contaminate. A team of scientists search for a cure as people again have to deal with illness and disease. Conflict and fighting re-start as people try and remain virus free. Some people find they are immune to the virus. Humankind is nearing the verge of extinction… No cure can be found, so humans must live underground, as those few who are immune to the virus become part of a separate society living in the world above…

17. CLOSED NARRATIVE OPEN NARRATIVE Tidy ending, things are resolved The path is clear for the story to continue (Sequels?)

18. Task: Look again at the story. Re-tell the story using one or more subversions. Change the original version so that the narrative no longer follows the same path

19. Feedback: How have you made the narrative structure different and interesting?

21. BUDGETS: $73.2m $20m for Bruce Willis $10m for the director $7m for Samuel L Jackson $2.3m for Robin Wright Penn $1.5m ‘perks’ for Willis $20m Rest of cast and crew $10m S.F/X

23. Camera Shots: Doing something different and unusual…