Year 11: Work To Do

By the end of the lesson Friday 17th October period 2 you need to have completed the following:

• Answered all the questions in the TV Comedy: Introduction post
• Answered all the questions in the TV Comedy: Research post
• Finished your TV viewing diary and present it in a suitable format
• Print out all your work and hand to me by the end of the lesson

Extension task

Research Task on Bad Education (see separate blog post)

TV Comedy: Research

1. List all the BBC channels.
2. What is the target audience for each channel?
3. How do they all differ?
4. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.
5. List all the ITV channels.
6. What is the target audience for each channel?
7. How do they all differ?
8. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.
9. List all the Channel 4 channels.
10. What is the target audience for each channel?
11. How do they all differ?
12. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.

TV Comedy: Introduction

1. What is the BBC?
2. Name as many BBC programmes as possible.
3. Which ones do you watch? 
4. What times are they shown on TV?
5. What is the Licence fee?
6. How much does it cost?
7. What is ITV?
8. Name as many ITV programmes as possible.
9. Which ones do you watch?
10. What times are they shown on TV?
11. What is the 'Watershed'?

Homework

Over the next week, keep a diary of all the TV programmes you watch, the time they are on and the channels they are broadcast on. 
If you only watch programmes on Netflix or Amazon Instant Video then still compile a list of shows watched, along with the times you viewed them.

Deadline: Wednesday 15th October

Magazine Cover Construction Task

The task is to construct a music magazine cover in one lesson.
You must do the following:

1. Choose a magazine name from the list I have provided. This will normally take a long time, hence the prearranged selection.
2. Decide on a suitable cover star (or stars) of your choice.
3. Have a quick look at coverjunkie for ideas.
4. Pick a font.
5. Include several examples of relevant text.
6. Add a bar code, issue number, month and price.

This is the version I made as an example:

Magazine Names

• Drone
• Reverb
• Deadline
• MMM (Modern Music Monthly)
• ARP
• Resonate
• The Mix
• Frontline
• Riff
• Rockwrok
• X
• Vox
• Rumpus
• FANDANGO
• Turntablist
• Freak Out!
• Invisible Jukebox
• Amok
• fred

Choose a magazine name from the list above, don't over-think it, just pick the first one that you like the look of and go with it.

Random Magazine (Construction Elements)

The following elements were used in the construction of my example magazine cover.

Rick Rubin is a famous record producer (Jay Z, Slayer, Johnny Cash, Adele, Run-D.M.C amongst many others). He was the co-founder of Def Jam records and also established American Recordings.

I cut the image out using the magic wand tool and also slimmed him down slighty. The American part of the tagline is a reference to him and also a nod to his record company American Recordings.

 I cut out a portion of the stars and stripes and pasted it over the I in Rubin.

I think the barcode is slightly too big on the final version. On your magazine choose a barcode that has a random number like the one above and not a 0123456789 one.


The font I chose is BEBAS NEUE. I like the clean lines and crisp style of this font. It matches the overall idea I had in mind for my magazine.

LIAR-A Simple Way To Analyse A Text (Year 10)

Language
Institution
Audience
Representation

Use these four headings to analyse a Magazine cover, CD cover, film poster or DVD cover of your choice. 

Analyse at least two. 

If you can, analyse an example from each type of media listed.

Refer to your books or the SlideShare presentation (Slides 8,11,12,13) on my blog to help remind you of  the definitions.

Complete work using Word and stick the finished creation in your learning journal.