Understanding your grade...

Dear all,

Here is a link to the OCR site explaining the difference between UMS and raw marks. What you all got for your coursework this year was marked with a raw mark. When they look at the coursework for everyone in the country the boundaries change a bit. It looks like this year the standard was high so the boundaries shifted. It's explained on this link:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/learners/ums/

Otherwise, well done to everyone, we got the highest number of passes this year than ever before, LOADS of B grades and even a sneaky little A for one AS student. I'm so proud of you all. Enjoy the rest of the hols

Ms P

Best Of Borough Film Awards

At some point over the next few weeks, you should all take a look at some of these films. They are funded by the UKFC development fund - giving young filmmalers the chance to make a professional quality short film. For these filmmakers, this is the first step on the ladder to becoming established feature directors or music video directors.

You can vote for your fave:

http://filmlondon.org.uk/best_of_boroughs

ALL STUDENTS DOING A2 MUST WATCH THESE PROGRAMMES

They'll be really useful context for your A2 exam unit


http://www.channel4.com/programmes/themes/bloody-foreigners

lipsynching!

Media Language For Question 1b

Dear Year 13,
I was hoping to have seen a few more of you over the last week. Luckily I am going to be around periods 2,3 and4 on Monday if you need help revising, need to ask any questions etc.

A few of you were worried about the term 'media language'. In brief, this refers to the stuff that you analysed at AS for the Tv drama. So what technical codes (specific shots, editing techniques, effects mise-en-scene, sound) did you use to comunicate your message to the audience. Basically how did you encode your production piece.

It may be that you will overlap slightly in things that you say for narrative and genre but that's ok. As long as you are more focused on the more technical aspects of what you did.

Hope that's clear, otherwise see you period 2,3 or 4 on Monday.

Ms Pollard

I WILL BE IN THURSDAY

My Lessons as normal on thursday and friday. It has cost me hundreds of pounds to get back for these lessons, GOD/ALLAH HELP YOU IF YOU DON"T COME!

work for thıs week

Hello team thırteen

Bad news - myself and ms G are both stuck abroad. She ıs ın NYC and ı am ın turkey. Very unlıkely we wıll be wıth you thıs week. Therefore you MUST manage yourselves. DO NOT SEE THIS AS A WEEK OFF. you only have about 5 more weeks before the exam so ALL TIME IS PRECIOUS.

Ok- here ıs what you should do. Fırstly - further down thıs blog there are sample exam questıons for sectıon A of the exam.
You can also prepare for thıs sectıon by plannıng answers to the followıng questıon,:
HOW HAVE YOU USED ____________ IN YOUR PRODUCTION WORK OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS
puttıng ONE of the words ın the gap ; medıa language / narratıve / genre / representatıon.

You can also use thıs tıme to catch up wıth Multıcultural Brıtaın stuff - go through the powerpoınts you have been gıven and try to answer the followıng questıons:

1)Dıscuss the contemporary representatıon of natıon regıon or socıal grou ın the medıa usıng specıfıc textual examples from at least two medıa (fılm and tv ın your case)

2) How far does the representatıon of a specıfıc socıal group change over tıme? refer to at least two medıa ın your answer.


PLEASE DO THIS IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. SPEND ALL WEEK WORKING ON IT AND I WILL MARK IT CLOSELY AND GIVE YOU A GRADE. PLEASE DONT WASTE THE WEEK.

See you soon. ı hope.

Ms Pollard