I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
Resources to get you started looking at talk radio. Lessons are numbered for ease of use.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- investigate target audience
- investigate station formats (included in bundle)
- explore brand identity through listening to the station and studying websites
- Analyse LBC and 5 Live
- investigate the regulatory body
Resources to support the teaching of TV Crime drama. Lessons are numbered for ease of use and provide opportunities to:
- explore the genre
- explore characters types
- explore representation of the police force
- analyse opening sequences
- create opening sequences
- explore scheduling strategies
- explore technological developments
- explore film noir
- explore Todorov's theory
- explore Propp's theory
- explore institutions
- explore mise en scene
- create pitches for own crime drama ideas - job roles included as per the industry to relate t the world of work
- explore codes
- explore narratives including multi strand
- explore crime drama audiences - geo-demographics, demographics - psychographics
- explore camera angles
- explore connotation and denotation
Over 16 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of cross media promotion for GCSE Media studies.
These lessons are ready to and are numbered for ease of use. The lessons explore cross media promotion of BBC drama and were planned for students completing the AQA Media studies assignment 2 coursework.
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore institution (BBC)
- explore conventions of trailers
- explore conventions of websites
- explore genre conventions
- explore and analyse mise-en-scene
- explore and analyse Todorov's narrative theory
- evaluate own production work
- explore representation of genre, people and institutions
Resources use the following BBC dramas as a stimulus:
- Our Girl
- Dr Who
- The Night Manager
- create a trailer and a website for a new BBC drama series
Resources to help get started with teaching video games and gamers. Lessons are numbered for ease of use.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore arcade gaming
- explore institutions
- explore platforms - consoles, tablets etc. and specifications
- explore game types - shoot-em-ups, first person shooter, strategy etc.
- explore video game audiences - demographic, geo-demographic, psychographic
- explore types of gamer - casual, mid-core, hard-core, social niche etc.
- explore audience profiles
- explore the 4Cs (media theory)
- explore the history of games consoles
Resources to support the teaching of cross media promotion through studying music posters and music videos.
Lessons are differentiated by colour:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
These resources provide opportunities to:
- explore and analyse music posters
- explore and analyse music videos
- explore representation
- explore and analyse the creation of synergy
- explore music genre conventions
- explore intertextuality
- recap institutions
- explore Dyer's star theory
Resources to support the exploration of audio production - week 3 - microphones.
Opportunities to:
- identify types of microphones - lavalier, direct connected, boundary, parabolic, noise cancelling etc.
- explore dynamic microphones and how they work
- the proximity effect
- investigate polar pattern of microphones
- investigate polar response
- use microphones to test out the proximity effect and directionality
Week's resources culminates with an assessment of understanding..
Over 12 resources to support the teaching of advertising production. The resources were created for students studying BTEC First in Advertising production (Unit 18) but can easily be used to help students with their studies of advertising as [art of GCSE.
Resources allow students to work to a brief and end up creating an advertising campaign by following industry practices.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore how adverts play on our fears and dreams
- explore persuasive language in advertising
- explore presentational features
- analyse adverts across 3 mediums (TV, radio and web)
- explore synergy
- study advertising across a range of mediums
- plan own advertising campaign
- conduct risk assessments and planning document as would be the case in the industry
- give a pitch for the campaign created
- explore legal and ethical
- investigate the ASA (advertising standards agency)
- consider budgets
- conduct primary and secondary research
- gather qualitative and quantitative data
A work book is also included for students to complete as they study the course.
Resources to support the teaching of Media audiences and products.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- investigate the audiences of a variety of media - magazine, newspaper, news etc
- explore mass and niche
- explore demographics, geo-demographics and psychographics
- explore advertising and impact on audience
- use the NRS website to explore print media audiences
- conduct primary and secondary research
- gather quantitative and qualitative data
- explore the 4Cs (Media theory)
- explore codes and conventions
- explore and create audience profiles
A work book is also included for students to complete while studying.
Resources to support the teaching of audio production. Lesson were planned to teach BTEC first unit 6 audio production but are equally suitable to help students understand audio for any Media studies course.
Students work towards a brief and will create audio (a radio programme) by following industry practice.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore a variety of audio - music, noise, silence, speech, special effects
- explore audio files - mp3, mp4, wav, AIFF, CD, DAB, FM
- explore mono and stereo
- monitor own audio consumption
- explore broadcast audio and non broadcast audio
- explore uses and gratifications - Blumler and Katz
- explore microphones
- edit audio using editing software
- follow a Media brief to create a radio programme (broadcast audio)
- explore and create radio sweepers, promos, idents, music beds etc.
- conduct research - primary and secondary
Differentiation using a points system. Students complete tasks to earn points, Difficult tasks have the most points attached to them.
A work book is included for students to use while studying.
Resources to support the teaching of presentation techniques in Media studies. Resources were created to support the teaching of the BTEC national Media studies unit on presentation techniques. 4 assignments that encourage students to look back at the history of presenting styles and create their own style for a specified purpose.
Resources provide opportunities for students to:
- study skills needed to be a presenter
- explore the image of presenters
- explore a variety of radio presenting styles - personality presenter, format presenter, specialist presenter
- compare the skills needed of radio and TV presenters
- analyse the visual techniques of news presenters
- explore the history of presenting styles on the BBC
- explore the verbal techniques used by news presenters
- explore British Pathe
- receive an industry standard brief to create a 12 minute programme foe children on presentation techniques
- conduct primary and secondary research
- create a proposal for a new pilot as per industry standard
- study example proposals
- present in a specified role for a specified purpose
- reflect on own presentation work
Resources to support the exploration of audio. (week1)
Resources provide opportunities to:
- explore audio types - silence, noise, speech, music etc.
- explore why audio is used - to create mood, to introduce an era, to reinforce an image etc.
- explore contrapuntal and pleonastic audio
Links to YouTube audio examples for each of the audio purposes are included.
The week's work of resources culminates in an assessment of understanding task.
Resources to support the teaching of TV Game shows.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunities for:
- exploring genre and sub genre
- exploration of Young and Rubican's 4Cs
- developing own ideas for a tv game show
- exploring institutions
- exploring representation
- exploring audience pleasures
- exploring narrative sequences
- exploring opening sequences
- to watch and examine existing game shows
Mock exams and revision materials are also included
A sample preliminary material to give students ahead of their next mock examination on the theme of serial drama.
The mock exam itself is also included and has been created to replicate the real exam - 4 questions each worth 15 marks with one task being a creative design task.
Resources to support the teaching of transactional / non-fiction writing.
Included:
- templates
- speech writing lessons
- letter writing
- spoken language
- presidential speeches
- place mat
- writing to argue
- persuasive writing
A large bundle of differentiated writing lessons and resources
- imaginative writing using a variety of stimuli
- descriptive writing
- persuasive writing
- letter writing
- writing to argue
- AQA GCSE section B writing resources for paper 1 and 2
- speech writing
Differentiation:
Purple - low
Blue - middle
Yellow - night
33 cards of television game shows for students to use in a variety of ways such as:
- sorting my sub genre
- sorting by format
- sorting by scheduling slot
etc.
Simply print - cut and use.
33 cards of serial dramas for students to use in a variety of ways such as:
- sorting by sub genre
- sorting by format
- sorting by scheduling slot
etc.
Simply print - cut and use.
