Year 11 Half Term Homework

Please follow the instructions on the image below and write the essay over the two week break. Do not leave it until the last minute!

Source: Ofcom PSB Review Phase 3: Competition for Quality

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/reviews-investigations/public-service-broadcasting/annrep/psb07/

ESSAY QUESTION:

In what ways can the BBC be considered leaders in Public Service Broadcasting?

Refer to Review of the Royal Charter:

p. 31 Audience Perceptions graph

p. 37 Licence Fee

p. 49 Governance

p. 67 Services

DUE TUESDAY 12th NOVEMBER

Photoshop HWK 2

Using the Internet find out something that you don't know how to do in Photoshop. 

THIS MUST BE DIFFERENT AND MORE ADVANCED FROM THE LAST ONE

Write some easy to use instructions on how to apply your new skill. (You don't need photoshop to do it, if you do you can use the computers in department.)

Due Thursday 24th Sept

Year 10 Representation Homework 2 - Due 16th Oct

In 300-500 words analyse the following statements. Use a range of examples to back up your analysis. Make sure you include your own opinion.

In many rap videos women have no identity except as sexual playthings and "eye candy"

These images do provide pleasures to some viewers. But the concern is that men may internalise the notion that women are nothing more than sexual objects waiting to be used.

These sorts of images are not unique to hip hop. Objectified female bodies are everywhere. They appear throughout our culture in films, advertisements, television programmes etc. However, within music videos, this is virtually the ONLY vision of women available.

Yr 11 Generic Pleasures Homework

Please complete 2 examples (one from Gavin and Stacey and one from The Big Bang Theory) for each of the four pleasures!

Complete for Tuesday's Lesson....

Y10 Evaluation of Presentation homework - Due Wednesday 9/10/2013

This week your homework is to evaluate the success of your presentation on representation for the music videos you watched in your lessons.

The first thing you need to do is to host you powerpoint/videos on either slide-shares (for PowerPoints) or Youtube (for videos).

To host a powerpoint on slide share:

Step 1: Create an account at slideshare.com (Keep your login details safe and make sure you can remember them for the future, we will be using it again).

https://www.slideshare.net/signup

Step 2: Upload your powerpoint by using the upload tool in slideshare

Step 3: copy the embed link that slide-share gives you when you click the embed link (circled)

Step 4: Paste the embed link into the "HTML" window on a new post entitled "Evaluation of Presentation. (Remember to click back to "Compose" to write in your evaluation below your embedded power point.

Your evaluation should contain 3 WWWs and 3 EBIs about your presentation. Be critical!

If you get stuck with any of this, let your teacher know as soon as possible so that they can help you before the deadline.

Year 10 Representation Homework - Due Wed 2nd Oct

Write 300-400 words discussing whether or not you agree with the following statements. Use examples from hip hop music videos to support your response.

Hip hop presents a very rigid and narrow version of manhood - one that suggests that to be a "real man" you must be strong and tough, you must have a lot of women and money, you must always be in control, and you must always dominate women and other men.

If you do not live up to these ideals, you will be ridiculed for not being man enough. You will be called names like "soft, weak and wimp".

This need to conform to the narrow definition of manhood in hip hop is a trap for men, boxing them into a restricted, unhealthy style of manhood and masculinity.

Y10 Homework - Photoshop Evaluations - Due Wednesday 25th

Your homework for this week is to write your evaluation for your first photoshop images. 

This blog post MUST contain your final image and a note of what you like about it and what you think could have been better. 

It should be written in standard English, and detail what you have learned from using photoshop so far.

For example... 

"My final image looks like a Ravens Wood TV logo, I'm happy with it because I managed to use a colour gradient and choose my own font. The font connotes wealth, and opulence because it is a serif font. I chose green as a colour because it matches the school logo, but also goes with my theme of rugby. The main images that I have found make my theme clearer and I'm happy that I managed to re-size and position them effectively. The overall effect is visually striking and communicates my design ideas well. 

For my image to be even better I could have spent more time choosing my main images to give the overall logo more impact. Although I like my colour gradient, in places the blur effect around my main images is obscured because I didn't use the magic wand tool properly. I need to practise photoshop more in my own time in order to improve."


This is NOT an opportunity for you to complain because you lost a password or had another technical issue, or because you weren't given enough time or attention to complete the task. We understand this is your first photoshop task and will not be judging your final piece for this too harshly. We would rather you celebrate what you have accomplished on this first go and point out how you could improve.

The deadline for this homework is Wednesday 25th September. It will form your first formal assessment for GCSE Media Studies, so make it impressive and don't submit it late please!