This is everything that you would need to be able to teach the AQA Horror trailer task in the task bank for the moving image task. There is 1 mammoth overall powerpoint that can be constantly referred to but is too much for one lesson. Included here are: templates for all preproduction tasks showing how to do them; tutorials that pupils can run through independently. With the film logos and title screens, save them as jpegs so they can be used in the trailers.

This lesson ties into the other lessons that I have previously uploaded on magazine front covers - it is literally the structire for the lesson with a reminder of the key ingredients of the cover - very simple and nothing more than that!

This is a handy little quiz where the pupils pick a colour to reveal and try to guess what's behind the image - This one is Movie Posters

This activity gets pupils to think about who would be them in a story of their life so that they start to understand the star system and genre.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for KS4 pupils studying GCSE Media Studies at grade U - D. The lesson is ready to teach, although you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. The lesons that i have uploaded can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome, but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers the techniques that producers use in headlines

Simpsons Characterisation Full Lesson This is a full lesson PP – and it ties into others that I have also uploaded – can be used as a standalone lesson on characterisation or alongside the others I have uploaded.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for KS4 pupils studying GCSE Media Studies at grade U - D. The lesson is ready to teach, although you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. The lesons that i have uploaded can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome, but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson demonstrates how to annotate covers.

easy to follow lesson ready to deliver on how to make storyboards.

These are a series of Reality TV Worksheets for pupils To Design their Own Show

This is a full worksheet on Magazines and audiences and consumption.

Nice lesson starter for the topic of newspapers.

Background information worksheet on newspapers and details of circulation etc.

Introduction to Media Studies Lesson 1 This is the first lesson of a series of 6 lessons that form the introduction to Media Studies. If I have created a PP to go with it, I have uploaded the pp with the lesson plan. The first scheme covers the key concepts of Media according to the AQA specification. The other lessons will be uploaded for you to use.

This worksheet covers the Media key terms in relation to newspapers.

Reality TV Handout for GCSE Media Studies - Can be used in conjunction with my other Reality TV materials including full lesson powerpoints

Ti support the teaching of GCSE Media Studies

This isa full lesson pp with the worksheet that analyses the opening shots of a film so that pupils can see how everything is created for effect.

This is a full lesson on signs and signifiers, as well as denotation and connotation. Lesson PP to structure tasks.

This is one of several powerpoint lessons that I have uploaded for KS4 pupils studying GCSE Media Studies at grade U - D. The lesson is ready to teach, although you will wish to adapt and differentiate for your own class. The lesons that i have uploaded can be taught together to reach an assessment outcome, but all are suitable as standalone exploratory lessons. This lesson covers the use of celebrities on covers.

This is a scheme of work overview to give ideas as to how to start to teach the Media Studies GCSE course and to introduce themes and concepts.