Media GCSE Bridging Project

Dear Year 9,

Welcome to GCSE Media. We are really pleased you have chosen Media and this bridging project is designed to introduce you to some of the media texts and activites we will be doing next year. Please work through the activities and contact us if you are having any problems.

We look forward to seeing your work!

Miss Brown and Mr WilcoxEmail rozbrown@highfield.herts.sch.uk or rhyswilcox@highfield.herts.sck.uk

What is media?

• The means of communication that reach large numbers of people, such as television, newspapers and radio.

• Plural of medium (type of media)A means of mass communication via broadcasting, publishing, the Internet

and digitally.

Getting a message out to lots of people

Radio, television, film, music

Newspapers and magazinesSocial media, Apps,

streaming, gaming

WebpagesYou Tube

On the next two slides are examples of successful media over the last two years.

•How many of them can you name or are you familiar with?

Summer 2018

Summer 2019

What/who are the big media successes of 2020?

Task 1:

Make a poster either hand drawn or on the computer to include all the big media successes of this year so far. Can you include:

• Film industry• Television industry• Music industry• Gaming industry• Online Media• Streaming• Radio• News• Magazines• Advertising

Task 2: Mind map all the media you have consumed over the last few months. Consider the following categories:

• Television eg: Tiger King• Film• Advertising• Social Media• Music videos• Radio• Newspapers• Magazines• Video games• Online media

EXTENSION:

Can you put the different media texts into categories?

Help:List all the films

you have watched, box sets you have watched etc.

Task 3: Keep a media diary over the next 7 days of all the media you consume:Day Media Time spent

Monday Played FortniteWatched Stranger ThingsListened to Spotify playlists

3 hours2 hours4 hours

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Task 4: Why did you choose Media Studies?

Please answer the question in as much detail as you can.

Stuck? Use the following sentence starters to get you going:

I spend…. hours a week on…..

I am interested in the subject of media studies because…

I am looking forward to learning about…

Set Products

The following slides give an example of some of the set media products that we will be studying as part of the course.

You will need to know all about these things and there is a lot to learn!

See if you can guess the media industry from the products that you see.

Task 5 – What do you already know?

Look at the different media texts on the next 7 slides. For each one

1. Write down everything you already know about it in one colour. For example, what do you know about The Sun newspaper?

2. If you can, do some research and see if you can find out 4 new facts about each set product. Add these in a different colour.

What will we study?

Advertising

• Quality Street• ‘This Girl Can’

What will we study?

Magazines

• Pride• GQ

What will we study?

Newspapers

• The Sun• The Guardian

What will we study?

Video Games

• Fortnite

What will we study?

Radio

• The Archers

What will we study?

Television

• Crime Drama (Luther)

What will we study?

Music Videos & Online Media

• Katy Perry• Pharrell Williams• TLC

Task 6:Film Marketing

Part of your GCSE will be coursework. This year our students made their own film posters and DVD covers.

• Look at different film posters and DVD covers. • Make a list of the codes and conventions (ingredients) of a DVD cover

and a film poster. Here is a start:

Poster DVD Cover

Main image Age certificate ratingBar codeBilling block

Task 7: How creative are you?

Choose your favourite genre of film. Is it comedy, thriller, horror, rom-com, spy, action? You are going to create the marketing material for a new film in your chosen genre with a certificate rating of 12A. You need to:

1. Bullet point the plot of your new film.2. Make notes on the main characters.3. Give it a title.4. Write the blurb for your DVD cover (150 words max).5. Create the cinema poster for your film.6. Design the DVD cover for your film (front cover, spine, back cover).

You may hand draw or use any computer programmes you have

access to.Can you take your own

photographs?

Posters

DVD Covers