SHSG Media Studies from GCSE to A level

This looks like an excellent course.

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Film Competition. Great opportunity to showcase your skills and win some great equipment. Click here for more info Send me your ideas if you would like some help with this.

Now could be a good time to brush up on your photoshop skills. Adobe are offering a 7 day free trial at the moment. After this its £16 a month for Creative Suite for students. There are lots of You tube tutorials that you could follow to create some interesting designs. A bit of fun, why not Photoshop you and your friends into a location you would really like to be in right now or you could transpose your face into a film poster or onto one of our set texts? You could mock up a new Quality Street advert, a Bond poster, you could be on the front of GQ magazine (GCSE texts) The Big Issue or in a Lucozade Ad, the front cover of the The Guardian or The Daily Mail could be your destination (A level texts). The only restriction is your imagination! Send me your finished designs by 4th May (may the 4th be with you....)

Dear students, Here is a link to a free subscription to the BFI film site. Here you can expand your 'cultural competency' and try out classic and foreign films. We have spoken in the past about the lack of diverse films available in mainstream cinema, now you have the opportunity to expand your awareness. Remember to keep to age ratings! https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription?utm_source=facebookbfi&utm_medium=promotedpost&utm_campaign=player_svod_20200313_conversion_dynamic&utm_content=dynamic_mar&fbclid=IwAR3eR_kqZK1K7IGh04J9LFZFyyMBez3XAWvtXut6aZ97RpqKBqg9CT8Jxmg This is a link to Curzon home cinema- these films need to be paid for but they have more recent films such as Parasite- which recently swept the board at the Oscars. https://www.curzonhomecinema.com/ You might like to look at this list of classic films to give you some inspiration.https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/20/drama-arthouse-25 Or look at the classic films available on Net...

Welcome to the site for making the transition from GCSE to Alevel Media Studies. 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 report. Media Captains are busy- you have to earn the badge! They run the junior film club but they also take a key role in documenting school productions and activities and are often ...

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