Welcome to Year 2 of GCSE Media Studies!
It has been a VERY strange six months... The word that best sums up Covid-19 is probably 'unprecedented'... there's almost no one alive in the world who has experienced anything like this. With that in mind, we need to remember to be kind to ourselves and ease our way back in gently.
If you're missing any of the work from lockdown, we'll have a chance to talk about that in the next week or so. We'll also go over all of those CSPs before next summer's exams to make sure we all understand them.
It's important to remember we have a huge amount to be proud of from Year 1 - we've actually covered 14 of the 18 CSPs already. We've now got two in-depth topics to work on - TV and Newspapers - plus coursework. We don't know what coursework will involve this year - AQA are still working on it and will tell us soon. We'll start by studying the TV CSPs and then work from there.
Upcoming assessment
You will have an assessment in week 3 to give us an idea of where people are working at the start of Year 2. We strongly recommend you revise for this as if it was a full PPE or final exam as ongoing assessments may prove to be crucial should centre-assessed grades be required next summer.
Year 1 reflection
The first priority is to make sure we can access our blogs (and also Google Classroom) and reflect on our work from Year 1. In the event of future local lockdowns or 14-day isolation, we'll need to be able to access our work from home.
The tasks below will help you reflect on Year 1 and start your revision for the upcoming assessment.
Year 1 reflection - blog tasks
Work through the following tasks to reflect on Year 1 and make sure you are ready for Year 2:
1) Look at your tracker for Year 1 blogposts (this will have been emailed to you by your teacher either before the summer or this week). Make a list of any CSPs you haven't completed. We will cover these in lessons later in the year but you WILL need to complete the blog tasks before you take any exams.
2) Which CSPs from Year 1 are you most confident on?
3) Which CSPs from Year 1 are you least confident on?
4) Your upcoming assessment will only be on CSPs from the first half of the year leading up to lockdown. Write a brief summary of the following CSPs to start your revision (Reveal magazine is done for you as ):
Doctor Strange:
I, Daniel Blake:
Magazines - Reveal: a celebrity magazine aimed mainly at working-class women focusing on gossip, celebrity and motherhood for just 99p. Offers quite a traditional, stereotypical representation of women.
Magazines - Tatler:
Advertising: OMO:
Advertising: NHS Represent:
Advertising: Galaxy chocolate:
5) List five things (e.g. CSPs/topics/terminology) that you will revise before your upcoming assessment.
Grade 8/9 extension tasks:
Our next topic is TV where we'll be studying the first episode of Doctor Who from 1963 and recent Doctor Who spin-off Class. Read this history of Doctor Who from the Guardian - published just before Jodie Whittaker made her debut as the first female doctor. What does the article suggest about representations and audience for Doctor Who?
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