COMPONENT 2: TV IN THE GLOBAL AGE, 'THE BRIDGE' (MEDIA LANGUAGE AND GENRE)

‘THE BRIDGE’ Lesson 5-8= This Quad lesson is part of a tailored unit to help students understand the differences between writing for Component 1 and 2. I have designed the ‘Life on Mars’ and ‘The Bridge’ lessons separately so as to focus on all of RAIL (Representation, Audience, Industry and Language (Media) respectively. 'The Bridge lessons will follow exactly the same format as the ‘Life On Mars’ series of lessons and will include 4 Power Points, one on each of the RAIL terms. There will also be a lesson on Narrative and Post-Modernism where both forms will be combined into one lesson due the difficulty students often have with such concepts. It is my intention to teach my students the RAIL term for ‘Life On Mars’ and then 'The Bridge to aid their compare and contrasting. This Quad lesson features:

-Examiner expectations
-Context and reading material around characters/ their names to aid in student identification
-A brief outline of the show and the various remakes of the show.
-Iconography and Steve Campsall’s opinions
-Teaching the students RESIST
-Hybridity, intertextuality and genre/sub-genre
-A break down of what Nordic Noir is and it’s conventions/ historical influence
-Reoccurring themes
-To what extent does ‘The Bridge’ adhere to the codes and conventions of the sub-genre of Nordic Noir? (ACTIVITY)
-To what extent is Saga conventional of the Nordic Noir Tradition/ crime sub-genre? (ACTIVITY)
-Revisiting key theory and looking at the 5 key theories the examine mentions with regards to Media Lang and TV (Differentiated, scaffolded group task)
-Application of key examiner theories to that of an unseen clip/ writing task
-Chiaroscuro lighting
-Pathetic Fallacy
-Symmetrical Framing
-Diegetic and non-diegetic lighting
-Positioning and Ideology
-Analysis of ‘The Killing’ with that of ‘The Bridge’

**THIS LESSON INCLUDES 2 H/W TASKS (ONE REQUIRES THE EDUQAS REVISION GUIDE/ THE OTHER I HAVE PROVIDED A SHEET FOR), ALL LINKS, PRINTABLE RESOURCES AND PRINTABLE RESOURCE SHEETS WITHIN THE POWER POINT

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school is only providing Media Studies at A-Level, as a Two- Year Course. Moreover, each lesson has a task whereby students RAG (Red, Amber, Green) what they have learnt in the lesson against an Examiner checklist (Differentiation, peer assessment).

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