KS4 Long Term Overview
Subject: Year 9 Media Studies GCSE Foundation
Autumn Term 2013
Half term 1 Unit Title:
Introduction to key concepts
Students to be introduced to the key
concepts and to understand and
correctly apply new terminology to
the analysis and creation of media
texts.
Week 1: What is ‘media’?
- How do we use media texts?
- How do we access media texts?
Week 2: Genre introduction
- Genre in magazines
- Producing a magazine genre
Week 3: Introduction to shot types
- Storyboarding
- A guide to shot types
Week 4: Denotation and connotation
- What does this denote/connote?
- Media censorship?
Week 5: Introduction to representation
- Representation of youth
- Construct a magazine cover
Week 6: Draft newspaper article
- Newspaper article final draft
Year 12, Specification: GCE OCR 5140
Spring Term 2014
Summer Term 2014
Half term 3 Unit Title: Narrative
Half term 5 Unit Title:
Representation
Students will be introduced to new
theoretical concepts for narrative
Students will develop their literacy
and apply this to a TV drama in an
skills and application of technical
assessment. Editing techniques will terminology in the exploration of
continue to be developed in the edit music videos and the
of their genre specific film.
representations constructed within
them.
Week 1: Introduction to Narrative
- Editing
Week 1: media platforms
- music video mise-en-scene
Week 2: Propp and Todorov narrative
analysis
theory
- music video structures
- Edit
Week 2: music video forms and
Week 3: Enigma codes and binary
conventions
opposition
- genre conventions
- Linear and non linear
narratives
Week 3: favourite music video
presentation
Week 4: Guide to narrative theory
- representation analysis
- Edit evaluation
Week 4: female representation
Week 5: Narrative in TV drama
- Male representation
assessment
Week 5: essay assessment
Week 6: Script writing
- 180 degree rule and POV
Assessment Method:
AO1: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
-
Representation of youth poster
Week 7: connotation analysis
- Peer assessment of PEA
- Assessment
Week 8: introduction to mise en scene
Assessment Method:
Assessment Method:
AO1: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Recall, select and communicate their knowledge
and understanding of media products and the
contexts in which they are produced and
consumed.
AO2: ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE
Analyse and respond to media texts/topics using
media key concepts and appropriate terminology
AO1: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Recall, select and communicate their knowledge
and understanding of media products and the
contexts in which they are produced and
consumed
Examples of likely subject specific
action points include:
1 Include correct subject terminology
consistently when discussing media
texts
2 Correctly use PEA structure in your
writing
3 Ensure that written work includes
detailed examples from a real media
text
AO4: PRODUCTION AND EVALUATION
Construct and evaluate their own products using
creative and technical skills.
Examples of likely subject specific
action points include:
1 Include correct subject terminology
consistently when discussing media
texts
2 Correctly use PEA structure in your
writing
3 Ensure that written work includes
detailed examples from a real media
text
4 Carry out effective independent
research from a variety of sources to
develop your knowledge further
Recall, select and communicate their knowledge
and understanding of media products and the
contexts in which they are produced and
consumed.
AO2: ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE
Analyse and respond to media texts/topics using
media key concepts and appropriate terminology
Examples of likely subject specific
action points include:
1 Include correct subject terminology
consistently when discussing media
texts
2 Correctly use PEA structure in your
writing
3 Ensure that written work includes
detailed examples from a real media
text
4 Carry out effective independent
research from a variety of sources to
develop your knowledge further
Half term 2 Unit Title: Genre
Half term 4 Unit Title: Audience
Students will learn how to identify
and create genre specific content
for a range of media texts. Students
will be introduced to filming and
editing skills.
Students will explore different
audiences and how a media text is
constructed to target a specific
audience. Students will be
introduced to new concepts and
terminology. They will develop
production skills for print.
Week 1: Genre conventions
- Mise en scene
Week 2: Genre case study
- Sound techniques
Week 3: Pitching a TV show
- Editing techniques
Week 4: Hybrid genre
- Creating a film conforming to a
genre
Week 5: film analysis
- Introduction to editing
Week 6: film analysis
- Editing
Week 7: film analysis
- Editing
Week 1: Target audience
demographics and psychographics
- Uses and gratification theory
- Magazine conventions
Week 2: Creating a target audience
profile
- Representation through
language and image in
magazines
- Planning a magazine
Week 3: Stuart Hall’s reception theory
- Magazine planning
- Magazine production
Week 4: Assessment – magazine
target audience
Week 5: Evaluation of production
Assessment Method:
Assessment Method:
Half term 6 Unit Title: Television
advertising
Students will explore the techniques
and structures of advertising
campaigns. This will link to previous
concepts of narrative, audience,
genre and representation in an
assessment.
Week 1: Advertising techniques
- Advertising structures
Week 2: Poster of techniques and
structures
- codes and conventions of print
advertising
Week 3: Advert assessment
- Advert production
Week 4: Advert production and edit
Week 5: Edit and evaluation
Assessment Method:
AO1: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Recall, select and communicate their knowledge
and understanding of media products and the
contexts in which they are produced and
consumed
AO2: ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE
AO1: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Recall, select and communicate their knowledge
and understanding of media products and the
contexts in which they are produced and
consumed
AO2: ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE
Analyse and respond to media texts/topics using
media key concepts and appropriate terminology.
AO3: RESEARCH, PLANNING AND
PRESENTATION
Demonstrate research, planning and presentation
skills.
Examples of likely subject specific
action points include:
1 Use a range of Filming and Editing
techniques to communicate genre
2 Select appropriate Fonts, Colours
and Images for your genre
3 Use codes and conventions of your
genre effectively in your own research
and planning
4 Ensure that written work includes
detailed examples from a real media
text
AO1: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Analyse and respond to media texts/topics using
media key concepts and appropriate terminology.
Recall, select and communicate their knowledge
and understanding of media products and the
contexts in which they are produced and
consumed
AO3: RESEARCH, PLANNING AND
PRESENTATION
AO3: RESEARCH, PLANNING AND
PRESENTATION
Demonstrate research, planning and presentation
skills.
Demonstrate research, planning and presentation
skills.
AO4: PRODUCTION AND EVALUATION
Construct and evaluate their own products using
creative and technical skills.
AO4: PRODUCTION AND EVALUATION
Construct and evaluate their own products using
creative and technical skills.
Examples of likely subject specific
action points include:
Examples of likely subject specific
action points include:
1 Include correct subject terminology
consistently when discussing media
texts
1 Include correct subject terminology
consistently when discussing media
texts
2 Correctly use PEA structure in your
writing
2 Correctly use PEA structure in your
writing
3 Ensure that written work includes
detailed examples from a real media
text
3 Ensure that written work includes
detailed examples from a real media
text
4 Carry out effective independent
research from a variety of sources to
develop your knowledge further
4 Carry out effective independent
research from a variety of sources to
develop your knowledge further.