Extended Learning Tasks – Media Studies Y11

Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Read the work of respected Become active on a media review Learn more about politics (both UK Listen to a radio show or station authors who write about the media website (such as Rotten Tomatoes). and Global) by reading a range of not aimed at a teenage audience industry and politics Join in on discussions, write political websites that offer a range reviews for films and rate the films of opinions: LBC (James O’Brian) Peter Biskind you have seen Radio 4 (The Today Show) Reading/Listening John Pilger Huffington Post 5Live (Drive Time) Naomi Klein Breitbart The Canary Guido Fawkes TotalPolitics

Expand your knowledge of film Improve your knowledge of the Expand your knowledge of TV Expand your knowledge of media genres by watching texts from: work of significant directors such genres by watching texts from: from other cultures by watching a ‘Biographical Drama’ Genre as: ‘Political Drama’ Genre range of foreign language texts: ‘Documentary’ Genre David Fincher ‘Current Affairs’ Genre ‘Historical’ Genre Guillermo Del Toro ‘Late Night Talk Show’ Delicatessen Tim Burton Metropolis Watching (Suggested texts: Spotlight, Milk, (Suggested texts: The West Wing, Amelie Bowling for Columbine, Schindler’s (Suggested texts: Social Network, The Newsroom, Newsnight, Das Boot List, The King’s Speech) Zodiac, Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Dispatches, The Daily Show, The Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice) Late Late Show)

Scout your local area for a range of Investigate how social media is Search Youtube (and any other Using your analytical skills locations that could be used in the used to market and promote new video sharing sites) for online developed and practiced in class, following genres: Films and TV Shows. Consider how guides to videosound editing. Try make notes on the genre Historical Drama each of the different platforms is to find guides for: conventions featured in a range of Local Documentary used: TV shows and films (try to consider Practicing Social Realism Using plugins with Final Cut X how they challenge the genre too) Facebook Free ‘Special Effects’ software (If you have a mobile phone, take Instagram Sound editing realistic special photos of these locations as a Snapchat effects record) Youtube