WORK FOR LIAM DOYLE: YEAR 10A MEDIA STUDIES

Hi Liam,

Click the links below to find work to complete for your GCSE Media Studies coursework. The work concerns the cinema. Both worksheets are in PDF format and require Abobe Acrobat to be read. If you have any questions, please email me.

www.zshare.net/download/cinema-initial-quest-pdf.html

http://www.zshare.net/download/my-films-pdf.html

YEAR 10 MEDIA

We have been reading "Donnie Darko" as part of our analysis of codes and conventions of the cinema.

For a review of DD click the link below:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578



For a "Donnie Darko Codes and Conventions" worksheet click the link below:


www.zshare.net/download/codes-and-conventions-donnie-darko-doc.html

YEAR 8U - SPELLING CHALLENGE

Don't forget that Wednesday is your spelling challenge test. For those needing a spelling list, click on the link below:

www.zshare.net/download/spelling-list-doc.html

THE GREAT DIRECTORS: JOHN FORD

It is no exaggeration to say that John Ford is one of the greatest filmakers in the relatively short history of this artform. A tangible influence on many directors, in a career that spanned both the silent film era and the "talkies", Ford made 140 films.

A chronicler of American history and the ordinary American, Ford is one of the great storytellers. His images remain imprinted in the mind long after the film has ended. Whether it be the panoramas of monument valley or John Wayne's isolation and loneliness at the threshold of the family home at the end of "The Searchers", Ford'svision remains unsurpassed by any American Director.

Read more about this truly great filmaker at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ford

Watch the trailer for "The Searchers".

YEAR 10T ENGLISH MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

Sequence from the film.





The original film trailer.

YEAR 10 T: "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH"

You have been studying this film as part of your research on the conventions of a gothic horror story.

Read a review of this film at:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058333/

Find out more about the late, great, Vincent Price at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Price

GREAT DIRECTORS: HOWARD HAWKS

Hawks is the "Director's Director", being known for his versatility, filming comedies, dramas, gangster films, sci-fi, pulp noir, and Westerns with equal ease and skill. Hawks' own functional definition of what constitutes a "good movie" is revealing of his no-nonsense style: "Three great scenes, no bad ones."

Find out more about this remarkable director and his films at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hawks

YEAR 10 GCSE MEDIA STUDIES

The "what" and the "why".

Following on from Tuesday's lesson - click the link to find a sample evaluation of a storyboard frame.

This also contains information on cinema, including the Oscar's film quiz.


http://www.zshare.net/download/cinema-2-flp.html

YEAR 10 GCSE MEDIA STUDIES - SO YOU CAN'T DRAW?!?!!!

"But I can't draw!" is the familiar cry of students when storyboarding. Remember! You are being marked on your evaluation and the ideas behind your work. Stickmen, huh! let's not be sexist here, stickpeople, will do very nicely.

A great site to see a stickman (sorry!) artist at work is:

http://198.173.235.195/stickman/stickman_submit.html

The stickman artist is Mark Monlux.

There is also a sheet to download that will help you practice drawing your stickpeople.

Enjoy!

Year 11 English GCSE Edexcel Unit 1B

Grace, Shanna, Fatou and Asha,

Check this site today - information will be posted...

Download information on the examination by clicking on

http://www.zshare.net/download/gcse-english-exam-doc.html

and

http://www.zshare.net/download/gcse-english-exam-pt-2-doc.html

Email me at Mrevans4444@aol.com so that i know you have downloaded these documents.

The Great Directors: Preston Sturges

A truly great and prolific film-maker, Preston Sturges is the perfect example of a director who could work within the Hollywood Studio System and yet make his own mark on the films he created. Indeed, while within the system his talent thrived, yet when he left to make independent films, his work and reputation fell into decline.

Find out more about this remarkable director at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Sturges

GCSE MEDIA STUDIES: 2008 Controlled Test Sit coms

We pay tribute to an icon of British Sit Coms...

Frederick John Inman (28 June 1935 – 8 March 2007) was an English actor who was best known for his role as Mr Humphries in the British sitcom Are You Being Served? in the 1970s and 1980s. Inman was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame.

Read more about John Inman at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Inman

GCSE MEDIA STUDIES: HOT OFF THE PRESS! 2009

The AQA GCSE Media Studies controlled test in 2009 will be on Quiz Shows.

Year 10 GCSE Media Studies TAPE formula

Here is a link to a TAPE formula grid to help you analyse media texts. You can download this document by going to

http://www.zshare.net/download/tape-formula-grid-doc.html

Ellie Crisell to present School Report

Newsround and BBC News 24 presenter Ellie Crisell will host the School Report programme on 22 March 2007.




http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/6401757.stm

Excitement Builds for News Day

Follow this link and see our Academy reporters at work!

URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6309977.stm

Homage: Potemkin/Untouchables

"The Untouchables" pays homage to "Battleship Potemkin" in the "Station Steps" sequence. Note also the sailors at the beginning of the sequence as a clever nod to the sailors of Potemkin.