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Sunday 13 December 2009

THE T-MOBILE ADVERT- PART 2

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More from the shoot. You were all absolutely fantastic.






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THE T-MOBILE ADVERT

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The making of the advert part 1. Fahad was an absolute star and is certain to appear on TV, the cinema and virally during the T-mobile campaign. Go Fahad! Go...!






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AS AND GCSE MEDIA STUDIES: REPRESENTATION

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Four months ago a really underrated sci-fi actioner escaped under the radar. "Surrogates" starring Bruce Willis addresses some extremely interesting issues about modern society including the way we represent ourselves and interact with others. I assume it will be out to rent very soon and would recommend it highly. Here's a taster from the trailer.






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AS AND GCSE MEDIA STUDIES: REPRESENTATION

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Creating the "perfect" you. Our image is one way we represent ourselves to people. Our perceptions of self may differ from the perceptions others have of us. Creating an image of ourselves is all part of representation. Think about your image as a college student. Does it conform to established ideals and ideas of how a college student should look and even behave?

Think about pre-conceptions of the archetypal media studies teacher or perhaps even a stereotypical media studies teacher! Cords? Beard? Black polo neck jumper!

You can represent yourself as a cartoon using free software.

Here's a representation of a certain tutor created using a neat piece of software at myWebFace at

http://home.mywebface.com/faceApp/

It's free to download, safe and fun. I know some of you may even use this or similar software to create avatars from Facebook etc.

Why not cartoon yourself in a way that you would like to represent to others? Is this the perfect you? Would you feel more comfortable if this was your image?

By now you should have realised that the reality usually falls sadly short of the ideal or at least this is certainly true of this teacher - sigh...



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GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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A copy of the essay guide you received in class.







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Sunday 29 November 2009

AS MEDIA STUDIES: BINARY OPPOSITION

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An excellent site for studying binary opposition at English Biz.

http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/extras/binaryopposition.htm





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FILMING THE T-MOBILE COMMERCIAL

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Well done everybody!






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T-MOBILE ADVERT FILM-SHOOT

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Well done to everyone that made it down to the Trafford Centre on Saturday. You were all absolutely brilliant. I know it was a long day and a lot of hard work but it was great fun too.








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Sunday 15 November 2009

AS MEDIA STUDIES: ROMANTIC COMEDIES - CAN THEY SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR LOVE LIFE?

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Interesting article with reference to Notting Hill.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1095106/The-Notting-Hill-effect-How-romantic-comedies-harm-love-life.html?printingPage=true








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Friday 13 November 2009

GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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GCSE ENGLISH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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A PowerPoint presentation on workhouses. Many thanks to my history colleague Helen Grundy for this.






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Thursday 12 November 2009

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

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A link to a glossary of words used in Dickens's novels and novellas. Visit David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page at:



Monday 2 November 2009

AS MEDIA STUDIES: NARRATIVE - STORYTELLING

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It is coming...


For homework:
a) write down five merchandising opportunities for the film.

b) Three ways you could tell this story in terms of narrative structure

c) in terms of the seven basic plots - what plot or which plots would this story fall under?






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Monday 19 October 2009

AS MEDIA STUDIES: STORYBOARD

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Follow the link to view a detailed storyboard for the crop-duster sequence in Hitchcock's North by North-west.

http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/images/stills/NxNW/cropduster/cropduster01.html

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AS MEDIA STUDIES: STORYBOARDS

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Link to site with a really good example of storyboards and advice on creating your very own storyboard.

http://www.roomsix.info/docs/MEDIA/drvstrybrd.pdf






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Tuesday 13 October 2009

GCSE MEDIA STUDIES: THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

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An excellent song from Stan Ridgway highlighting the perils of the music industry and documenting the history of the peerless band "Wall of Voodoo" he once fronted.






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AS MEDIA STUDIES: SEMIOTICS PART 1

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AS MEDIA STUDIES: SEMIOTICS - PART 2

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AS MEDIA STUDIES: SEMIOTICS

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AS MEDIA STUDIES: ROLAND BARTHES ON YOUTUBE

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AS MEDIA STUDIES: OPENING TO THE PRISONER

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The opening sequence to this great series.



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TRUE BLOOD: OPENING SEQUENCE

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Now showing on Channel 4.





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Sunday 11 October 2009

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: POWERPOINT

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Here's the PowerPoint we've been using for travel writing. Good luck with your drafts.







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Friday 2 October 2009

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: ROUGH GUIDE REVIEW OF RIO

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Here's the link to the review on Rio we studied in lesson.






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GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: JOHN COOPER CLARKE

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Following on from the last lesson, here is the link to Salford's punk poet, John Cooper Clark and his poem in praise of pies. Remember, "You'll always get a guy with a pie"! Have a good weekend.





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GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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Here's a short list of literary terms from the slideshare team. You can download this list and keep it with your other notes. It's also handy to bring this list into lectures as a handy reference tool.










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GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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Here's a link to a useful site containing a list of grammar terms with examples.

http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary.html


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GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE - TRAVEL WRITING

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Here is a link to BBC Bitesize Scotland's section on travel writing. Read the additional example and advice on the features of this writing genre. Then, take the short test.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/english/close_reading/travel_writing_rev1.shtml





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Wednesday 30 September 2009

GCSE ENGLISH EVENING CLASS

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A big hello to my English Language evening class. Please use this site and become a follower by clicking on the "Follower" links on the right hand side of my blog. This will involve you opening a Google email account which is free and handy to have as you will also receive an email address which you can use to contact me in addition to any other email address you may have.


There are plenty of resources on my blog to support your English studies and regular updates so it is really important to keep checking the site. Becoming a follower will help you keep updated and informed on new resources and materials.


Use the links on the right of the blog to find areas of English and other posts/articles that are of interest and of use to your studies. Take time to look around the site and feel free to post comments.



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Friday 25 September 2009

GCSE MEDIA STUDIES - BLOGS

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Today you are going to create your own blog and research and publish information on an area of the course that you can share with the rest of the group. You are going to personalise the look of the site and allow followers to join your blog. You are also going to allow people to post comments on the work you publish.




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AS MEDIA STUDIES: GENRE AND HORROR POSTERS

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The PowerPoint used in the last session.






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