EDUQAS 2024 ONWARDS A2 COMP 1, MUSIC VIDEOS REMASTERED: MEDIA LANGUAGE IN 'RIPTIDE'

LESSON 1-4: This 4 lesson power point starts the ‘RIPTIDE’ MUSIC UNIT (8 lessons in total) and is remastered/ brought up to spec with the more recent format of my resources.

IMPORTANT: THE ENTIRE LESSON WAS DEVELOPED/ MODELLED ON TOM SHERRINGTON AND OLIVER CAVIGLIOLI’S ‘TEACHING WALKTHRU’S’ SERIES AS PART OF CPD AND WAS OBSERVED AND RATED AS BEING ‘OUTSTANDING’. INCLUDED IN THE NOTES SECTION IS MY METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATION OF THE TEACHING TECHNIQUES USED.

This lesson includes:

-START WITH THE MASTEPIECE: Students to deconstruct and annoate a 15 marker past essay question from 2022 written by me. Extensive scaffolding and support included including ‘Up All Night’ audio/ visual unseen.
-‘Riptide’ introductory context.
-Indie-Folk Pop
-Mainstream V Alternative music
-Surrealism and Realism
-Deconstruction of the ‘Riptide’ video using key terms with a stretch scaffolding help sheet should students need it.
-YOU’VE BEEN FRAMEWORKED: An in-depth analysis of ‘Riptide’ against post-modernism with key terminology to support learners. Support slides to follow shoudl studnets have missed key factors of post-modernism.
-Visual direct/ indirect intertextuality examples in ‘Riptide’.
-Autuer and Wes Anderson’s influence on popular culture/ ‘Riptide’.
-MONTAGE EDITING AND ‘INTELLECTUAL MONTAGE’
-YOU’VE BEEN FRAMEWORKED: An in-depth analysis of ‘Riptide’ against Barthes.
-Analysis of an unseen music video against surrealism and bricolage.
-Revist the folowing question looked at in the first task with a new unseen and application now, of all studnets have covered this lesson:
-10. Explore how this music video communicates meaning. [15]
-The question also includes a written/ visual ‘Good Samaritan’ slide that indicates how I would write this question.

PLEASE ALSO CONSULT NOTE SECTION OF POWER POINTS FOR ADVICE, DELIVERY NOTES AND FURTHER READING/RESOURCES. PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS IN POWER POINT ARE INCLUDED AS WELL AS THEORY/FRAMEWORK SLIDES AT THE END OF THE POWER POINT.

THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES A FRAMEWORK SHEET DESIGNED TO BE SET DURING/ AT THE END OF THE UNIT.

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school operates a two year A-Level; AS (YEAR 12) AND A2 (YEAR 13). Moreover, some of the tasks in lesson and for H/W are dependent upon owning the EDUQAS AS/ A2 Revision Guides/ Mark Dixon’s ‘Media Theory for A Level: The Essential Revision Guide’

I DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHT TO VIDEOS THAT ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE POWER POINT AND ANY MENTION OF ‘FROM THE FACT SHEET’ IS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL FROM THE EDUQAS FACT SHEETS)

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