DVD Packaging - Genre and Audience

This visually engaging and highly informative Media Studies lesson aims to serve three main purposes:
- To enable students to improve their knowledge of the Horror genre, and the Comedy Animation sub-genre;
- To build the necessary skills needed in order to complete Assignment 1 of the GCSE Media Studies accreditation, analysing and responding to DVD packaging;
- To improve students knowledge of the key concepts 'Audience' and 'Genre.'

This lesson was taught during in a recent lesson observation and received an 'Outstanding' judgement.

Students follow the process of:
- Defining key terminology through the engaging and relevant game '4 Pictures, 1 Word;
- Identifying key features of audience and genre through collaborative fact finding;
- Analysing DVD covers (with the provided modelling and scaffolding resources, where needed)
- Self evaluating success against accreditation specifications.

All necessary resources are provided. They are also easily editable, should you choose to alter them in any way for your classes!