GCSE COMP 2, MUSIC VIDS (SEC B) :'BAD BLOOD', UPTOWN FUNK'& 'WATERFALLS' (REPRESENTATION & CONTEXTS)

MUSIC VIDEOS AND ONLINE MEDIA: ‘Bad Blood’, ‘Uptown Funk’ and ‘Waterfalls’ Lessons 7-11= This five lesson resource continues looking at the 4 RAIL features needed for the Section B, Component Two Paper. Each lesson includes an in-depth look at how the RAIL feature in question can be applied and analysed within the set texts. These five lessons explore Representation, contexts and key theory in-depth. To further aide you, I have included all links to audio/visual clips and literature needed as well as links where you can access the entirety of the set texts and other case studies. These five lessons look at:

–Examiner breakdown and structure
-GET THE DROP ON THE EXAMINER- Assessment of Retained knowledge of key RAIL terms. This will be at the start of each lesson and will focus on that lesson’s RAIL feature.
-Scopophillia and Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze
-Toxic Masculinity
-Controversy as a selling feature
-Allegory/Motifs
-Hypersexualization
-Comparative analysis of Taylor Swift’s ‘Love Story’ with that of ‘Bad Blood’
-Context and themes in ‘Waterfalls’
-Feminism and Post-Feminism
-Stuart Hall’s three readings theory applied to that of 3 other controversial videos; ,Blurred Lines’, ‘7 Rings’ and ‘Break Up with your Boyfriend’. Are these texts progressive/regressive?
-Socio/cultural and historical contexts of videos
-An analysis of issues/ contexts that I think are being raised in all three videos
-Task 4: Let’s watch all of the videos again. Note down any contextual debates you see on your worksheet as well as whether or not you think the video is progressive with regards to Ethnicity.
-TASK 5: BAND-AID’S DON’T FIX POOR ESSAY STRUCTURE=Using your copy of the indicative content on pages 39-41 construct a one page revision resource that you can have in front of you when you write this question in 25 minutes. You will then have 25 minutes to sit the question under exam conditions.
-SAMS Question 20 marker on Ethnicity with Mastery sheet.

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and teach a three year GCSE.

(Each lesson is laid out as I teach my own class but I have added notes at the bottom of some of the slides e.g. on the Media Teaser, to aide teachers. All lessons are developed with differentiation, assessment/challenge as well as engagement entrenched heavily within all my resources. Moreover, constant reference is made throughout to the selected Examiner Media.

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