Year 10 L1

1. Seating plan
Board
Podium
Door
Craig Ross E Jack
Sophie Georgia Josh S Ryan
Rhianno
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Rebecca Caitlin Logan
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Adam Josh M Sebastian
Tom Logan A Yasmin Danielle
Damien Macauley Charlie Billy

2. GCSE Media Studies
The hard work starts now!

3. GCSE breakdown
• Individual portfolio = 30%
• Media studies portfolio = 30%
• Exam = 40% - AA films / TV comedy
• Year 10 – individual portfolio
– Essay – 60 marks
– Production – 40 marks
– Planning and evaluative commentary – 20 marks

4. Setting up your blog
• You need to complete the following:
– Set up a Gmail account (if you don’t already have one)
– Set up a blog using Blogger
– Title your blog – your name GCSE Media
– Blog address – firstnamesurnameCBA15
– Email Miss G with your blog address
• You also need to set up accounts for:
– Scribd
– Slideshare
– Google Drive

5. Work begins today!
Compare how teenagers are represented in two
Action Adventure films: The Amazing Spider-Man
and Hunger Games.
In order to answer this question we need to study:
- Theory of representation
- Film genre convention
- Audience theory
- Close analysis of key scenes

6. Language
• What type of
media is this?
• How do you
know?

7. Language
• What type of
media is this?
• How do you
know?

8. L I A R
• Language = codes and conventions NOT JUST WORDS
– Layout, colour, images, text
– Camera shots, movements
– Sound, music and dialogue
– Graphics
– Narrative
• Institution
– Who makes the media text (Sky, Facebook, Sony, Bauer)
• Audience
– People who listen, watch, read or use media
– Grouped together in different ways (age, gender, wealth,
etc.)
• Representation

9. Representation
• The way real life is presented on TV, radio, in
papers and magazines
• Groups of people are represented in a certain
way so that people begin to believe ALL
people in that group are like that –
stereotyping
• Places, gender, social class can also be
represented

10. Language and audience
• Look at the media texts and discuss:
– What type of media is it?
– What kind of media language does it use?
– Who is the audience?
– How do you know it would appeal to that group of
people?

15. Using LIAR
• Use the four headings of LIAR to analyse a:
– Magazine cover
– CD cover
– Film poster
– DVD cover
• Use Word. Save your document as a PDF.
Upload it to Scribd. Embed into your blog.