SHSG Media Studies from GCSE to A level

 Welcome to the site for making the transition from GCSE to Alevel Media Studies.  You are now a photographer, an editor, a journalist, an academic, a creative- these are the roles required to succeed at Media Studies, take this long summer to develop these skills. There are lots of links on this so click on words with different colour font to follow and explore a little more. If you follow this blog you will get a notification of when I post more content. I will post reading and watching links on here every few days but don't want to bombard you with everything at once. So what will be different? Well to start with you will have 9 hours of contact time a fortnight rather than the 5 you are used to at GCSE. So this means lots more time to really go in depth into the topics- there are actually less texts than at GCSE! This means there are loads of opportunities for reading around the subject and to develop your practical skills. You can get more involved in the BBC School News repor

 A great challenge for you over the summer would be to follow this programme  Watch here Top photographer Rankin guides a group of amateur photographers.  Each week they have a series of challenges and masterclass sessions to develop their photography skills.  Why not follow the programme and take on some of the challenges yourself? Set up your own blog to share your images and thoughts and send me the link.  There will be a prize for the best development in September. 

This documentary about the Murdoch family is fascinating on BBC player. Episode 2 is particularly relevant for the Alevel spec whilst thinking about the industry theorists.  You may want to look for similarities to 'Succession' a brilliant Sky series.  and an interesting article about their similarities here from Harpers 

An interesting move away from conventional fashion coverage. 

Because of the nature of Media studies it is good to keep up with changes in the media industry. The Media Magazine that we have a subscription to is excellent, it is wide ranging and contemporary but also exam focused. It is a good idea to find some examples of articles in here that you could potentially discuss in a university interview of in your UCAS statement. It always covers topical issues and has clear, accessible explanations of theory. You can see the latest issue here and also access old copies. You can access it here Check your school email for login and password Another brilliant resource is The Media Show on BBC Sounds. This is a radio broadcast that covers loads of really relevant topics. For instance this week there is an interview with the editor of The Guardian, Katherine Viner. Just listening to this weeks episode gave us a brilliant quote from the editor; I think the politics the Guardian are really interesting because and often very disappointing fo

Very interesting in terms of representation See here