“Every strike out brings me that bit closer to the next home run”
Babe Ruth
Well when it came it wasn’t actually quite as bad as perhaps all sane human beings feared.
What is this thing I am talking of? Was it Liverpool winning the European Cup? A truly horrendous thought for all normal footy watchers desperate to avoid never ending squadrons of their oleaginous celebrity fans eulogising over “da Reds” even though they’d never been as far North as Tamworth. I’m looking at you Damian Lewis by the way. And Stormzy. Behave yourself mate.
Was it the idea of sitting for three hours of ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’? Well definitely not that, because actually it was pretty fantastic and even if the ending was a bit eccentric, we all love a bit of prime Brad ‘n Leo don’t we?
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From other colleagues’ anecdotes, it’s clear that, actually, Media mock exams are not always as simple as they perhaps should be. While many of us are probably fairly well grooved in terms of curating the December/January English Lit and Lang mocks (“Hello Past Paper my old friend, I’ve come to copy you again”), mocks in the subject of Media, English’s cooler, Gitane smoking, Italian sports car driving, experimental theatre viewing hipster cousin, are definitely less straightforward.
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Working your way through the new specifications can feel like being part of a Big Brother experiment. Here at Edusites, we get some great questions from our members. This blog is about one well-formed question from Laura and the various responses and advice we offered.
At first they just sound a bit stuffy...The four keys skills (or theoretical frameworks) are, in theory, the building blocks of Media knowledge. Bearing in mind that we are very likely to have some ‘last minute of the transfer-window’ kids in our classes, the idea of starting with an introduction about these concepts is actually sensible and reassuring for all involved.
All Media specifications will have four crucial elements built into them. These skills are the fundamental learning principles you need to understand how to teach because they comprise all of the angles of media education your students will need to be able to recognise, comment on, assess and theorise about.
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Starting work again does have its benefits though. At least we can casually pretend to be watching Celebrity Big Brother “to really be getting inside the marvellous examples of Propp villains and Levi-Strauss dynamics” and not just because we want to see how crackers Roxanne really is.
Part of the genuine appeal of this AQA GCSE Media Studies course is the wide and contrasting spread of topics in the CSP. Many of the units are thoughtfully curated so as to offer a neat comparison between two institutions.
What a year that was in GCSE Media. I’m sure many of our colleagues will agree that this has been one of the most challenging we can remember. The dual year we knew had to be faced has been conquered…..hopefully! Those teachers and departments who have found themselves in the unenviable position of managing Y11 through the final days of the much loved (ok..very familiar!) GCSE legacy specs whilst simultaneously getting to grips with the new strengthened course will be looking forward longingly to that final bell, the swift taxi to the airport and the rattle of ice cubes more than most this year.
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Try and listen to some BBC Light Radio stuff, followed by any of the early Caroline tapes. The difference is obvious. While the BBC Light Programme, in particular, produced some genuine classics of the genre (The Goon Show, Hancock’s Half Hour etc), it was the growing demand for rock’n’roll sounds that made the audience for pirate radio so disenchanted with much of the BBC’s offerings.
Try and listen to some BBC Light Radio stuff, followed by any of the early Caroline tapes. The difference is obvious. While the BBC Light Programme, in particular, produced some genuine classics of the genre (The Goon Show, Hancock’s Half Hour etc), it was the growing demand for rock’n’roll sounds that made the audience for pirate radio so disenchanted with much of the BBC’s offerings.
The Rise of Radio 1 and the Influence of the Pirates. When Radio1 began in 1967, the controllers knew that they had to appeal to the young adult market who had become very bored with their dull ‘Light’ Programme or classical music output. They had lost a lot of their audience to listeners who enjoyed the much more upbeat, cool, modern and humorous style of the Pirate Radio DJs like John Peel and Tony Blackburn. They used banter and had a laugh with the audience when presenting. Therefore they could connect with this younger audience much more effectively.
Streaming Music delivered via the Internet Playlist A list of sings that have to be played on specific radio shows Public funding Money paid to the BBC to create their content from TV licence fees Deregulation Doing away with government control or oversight – Freeing up the market Digital/DAB Upgraded technologies a clearer and cleaner sound for streaming broadcasts DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting OFCOM The UK government watchdog – The Office of Communications – Overseas the UK radio Industry Convergence Being able to listen to radio content on a number of platforms Cultural Capital Being believable to an audience – Displaying knowledge and awareness that demonstrates expertise and allows the audience to trust your judgement
As basic as it sounds, always take a minute at the beginning of a new CSP to check in with the actual key skills (Or elements of the somewhat dauntingly sounding ‘Theoretical Framework’) and make sure you have a clear grasp on exactly what’s required. It would be a serious waste of everybody’s time if you career down a path looking in great depth at the audience when, for example, the CSP is only asking you to look at language and representation! Music Video - What two Key Areas? Media Industries Media Audience
