Media Awards 2022: The Nominations

The nominations are in for the Media Awards 2022!

The ceremony is in two weeks and will be the first in-person Media Awards since 2019. We've had an incredibly difficult job finalising the nominations - the quality level at both GCSE and A Level is superb and there has been a lot of very good work that hasn't made the cut.

If you haven't been before, the Media Awards is our Oscars-style ceremony where we award trophies for the best Media coursework at GCSE and A Level. It's a major event in the Greenford calendar and tickets have completely sold out whenever we have run the event in the past. The details for this year's awards:

Date: Tuesday 5 July
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Tickets: £5

Tickets will go on sale on Monday 27 June (exclusive presale for Media students) before tickets go on general sale on Wednesday 29 June.

Remember - you need to be quick. The event sold out in just four days when it last took place in 2019!

A Level nominations

BEST A LEVEL SOUND DESIGN

Kharina – Through the Eyes of K

Arianna – Sound of the Soul

Harneet – Love Theory 

BEST A LEVEL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Krystian – Teens In Tech: Social Media

Silver – London’s Latest Plan/Scam

Tegan – Obesity 111

BEST A LEVEL PRODUCTION DESIGN

Hannah – House of Riches

Assia – 90s Reload

Tianna – London Divided

BEST A LEVEL EDITING

Fabian – Rise of eSports

Kaashif - School: Work-Life Balance

Randa – Guilty Until Proven Innocent

BEST A LEVEL DOCUMENTARY CONCEPT

Dania – No Friend But The Mountains

Ibtihal – Mental Health in Ethnic Minorities

Sankavi – Culture Collage 

BEST A LEVEL POST-PRODUCTION

Ansa – Real vs Ideal

Gamid – Covid: Crushing the Economy

Jobanpreet – Knife Crime In Our Schools 

GCSE nominations

BEST GCSE TV DRAMA CINEMATOGRAPHY

Harrison – Galactic Escape

Lilly - Paranoia

Julia – The End of It

Orkena – Paranoia 

BEST GCSE TV DRAMA ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Khaterah – Purple Hyacinth 

Kemi – Elf/Human

Obaida – The Takeover 

Rubana – The Rise of Malignant 

BEST GCSE TV DRAMA EDITING

Nasra – Disappearance 

Watanpreet – Merge 

Shreyam - The Hallucination 

Ashleigh – Gone

Best Actress and Actor

BEST ACTOR 2022

Gamid

Kaidian

Diako

Shreyam

BEST ACTRESS 2022

Lilly 

Orkena 

Nasra 

Watanpreet 

Congratulations to all our nominees and we look forward to seeing you at the Media Awards on Tuesday 5 July! 

Post-exam project: TV Drama trailer montage

Now that we have finished the GCSE Media exams, we have the chance to take on more creative, practical projects.

Our first project is editing a TV drama montage using clips from our coursework projects. There was some amazing coursework produced this year and editing a montage of the best bits will highlight the quality of the work we've produced. 

Brief: Create a 1-2 minute trailer for a new season of TV Drama using the TV drama extracts we created for our coursework.

Research

The first aspect to any media project is researching professional examples so we know the codes and conventions of the media type we are creating.

Watch a range of TV drama season trailers to learn the conventions:

You can also find a great example on the website of Bad Wolf production company here.

Note the following conventions:

• Use of music
• Length of clips
• Pace of editing
• Close-ups
• Dramatic scenes
• Movement
• Lines of dialogue
• Text on screen
• Build up to dramatic ending

Planning

Before editing a montage, you'll need to make sure you've watched all the clips available to use. We will screen some in class for those willing to share their work. Whether you're watching in class or on the PC, make notes of the coursework projects and specific clips you want to use in your trailer.

Next, plan the music you will use for your trailer. This is a critical decision - many drama season trailers are more like music videos so getting the right song is vital. Look at the songs available on the Media Shared drive or you can bring your own MP3 file in next lesson. Important: the song must be appropriate for pre-watershed viewing so no explicit lyrics. Remember, you don't need to use the whole song so you can pick the 60-120 seconds that will be most cinematic. You'll find a selection of songs in the following folder:

Media Shared > Resources > GCSE > Music and sound effects > Music - songs


Editing

Open up a new project in Adobe Premiere Pro, save it in your folder on Media Student Shared and then import the video and audio files you want to use in your trailer. You'll find the video files in the following folder:

Media Shared > Resources > GCSE > Summer projects > June 2022 TV drama montage


Deadline

We will have two weeks to plan and edit our montage videos.


Extension

We think that most people will need a few lessons to complete their montage. However, if you finish and export your TV drama trailer, we have a brilliant extension task to take on. Turn your original coursework production into a 90 second Science Fiction / Fantasy film trailer using trailer conventions such as film institution logo, text on screen, actor names, title and release date.

Rise Up Academy Summer School

Global Academy in Hayes will be hosting the Rise Up Academy Summer School in August. 

The event is a chance for students to get hands-on experience of working in media technology, including: building a TV studio and creating a TV show, exploring an Outside Broadcast truck, creating eye-catching graphics, learning about post-production and editing video content, virtual production, and cloud technology with Amazon Web Services. The event is free to attend but you need to book.

Year 10-13 Summer School is Thursday 4 and Friday 5 August. You can book your FREE place here.

You can find out more about Rise Up Academy Summer School on their website here. 

This is a brilliant opportunity to get hands-on media technology experience on our doorstep - get involved!

Paper 2: Revision links

Media Paper 2 is our final exam - we've nearly finished the course! 

Once again, we've got the significant boost of AQA providing advance information about the exams which tells us which CSPs will be coming up. Use your notes, blog work and revision booklets / practice questions to prepare for the following:

Media 2 exam: Tuesday 14 June P5&6

Section A: Television

Extract from Class - Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart with 2, 8 and 12 mark questions about the clip.

20-mark essay on Class and Doctor Who - TV blog notes can be found on the TV final index here.

Section B: Newspapers

20-mark essays on Daily Mirror and The Times.

• Daily Mirror notes - Language and Audience
• Daily Mirror notes - Representations and Industry
• The Times notes - Language and Audience
• The Times notes - Representations and Industry

Important: the final question in Media Two is the synoptic question where you need to demonstrate your knowledge of the whole course of study. The best way to do this is to discuss different CSPs that relate to the question you are given.

Revision is the key

If you would like revision cards to revise with feel free to pop in to DF07 and I'll happily provide you with them for free. As we did for Paper 1, I strongly recommend creating revision cards for all the exam CSPs and also for media terminology and theory (e.g. Mise-en-scene, Reception theory, Uses & Gratifications theory etc.)

The better you know the terminology, theory and CSPs, the better you'll do in the exam!