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Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Year 10 Media Studies
Home Learning Booklet (Spring Term 2)
Name:______________________
Media Class: _________
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Task 1
Pick one full day on a normal week. Record all your consumption of the
media for this day:
Media Text Hours spent
(round up to
nearest 15
mins)
Watching television programmes either on T.V., streaming (Netflix, iPlayer
etc.) or recorded using a TiVo (Virgin, Sky+ etc.)
Listening to music on your mobile phone or iPod
Watching videos and listening to music on Youtube
Watching DVDs (films, documentaries or other T.V. programmes)
Using a Smart Phone to access the internet
Reading newspapers or magazines
Playing computer games on a console (X-Box, PS3 etc.)
Social networking using any device (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr)
Watching a film at the cinema
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Task 2
How I access the media:
I have access to: at home at a
family or
friend’s
house
at school
A PC
A laptop
A macbook or Mac
An iPod or other mp3 listening device
A tablet device (like iPad)
A SmartPhone
A mobile phone without access to the
internet
A television in a shared living area
A television in my bedroom
Digital TV recording device (TiVo, Sky+
etc.)
Daily newspapers
Magazines
A device for listening to the radio
A DVD player
DVDs
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
What do you think multi-platform means?
Why do marketing companies need to think about the age / gender/
hobbies/jobs of their target audience so that they can sell them more? ( e.g.
putting an advert on during the break of X Factor will target families)
Task 3 COLOUR CONNOTATIONS
Think of a LOGO that uses the colour as its primary colour.
Colour Logo Business
example: blue
Computing
Green
Red
Yellow
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Orange
Black
Brown
Task 4
Look at this advert. Annotate it using media language (Camerawork/
Sound/ Editing/ Mise-en-scene): font
colour pallette
layout
rule of thirds
use of image
connotations of the above
who it is aimed at and how you know
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Task 5 Write the definition of these key media terms. Write in a full sentence and give
an example of you can.
Industry
representation
stereotype
bird’s eye view
producer
genre
audience
edit
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
List all the ways you could revise what you have learned in Media Studies so far:
Task 6
Research Quiz:
Question Answer
1. List 3 magazines and their
target audience.
2. What does BBC stand for?
3. What does PSB stand for?
4. What Radio stations do the
BBC own?
5. What does connotation mean?
Give an example.
6. Will Farrell is the voice of Lord
Business in ‘The Lego Movie’.
Name 3 other films he has been
in.
7. What film ratings can films be
awarded (e.g. U) and why are
they given these?
8. What are the songs by Little
Mix and The Vamps that you
are studying called?
9. What are the good points about
reading a newspaper online?
10. Can you name three UK
newspapers?
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Task 7 Storyboard (Use the blank storyboard) you would film a scene in a crime drama. Consider: Lighting, setting, sound, props and camera angles. Ex:
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
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Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Task 8
Create a character guide for ‘The Lego Movie’’, creating fact files on at least 3 main characters.
Fact File 2:
Fact File 1:
Fact File 3:
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Assessment 1: Representation Images
o How are the women characters represented in these pictures? Annotate the pictures showing what mise-en-scene has been used to represent them a particular way.
o How is ethnicity represented in these pictures? Annotate the pictures showing what mise-en-scene
has been used to represent them a particular way How do they reflect the time at which the Crime Drama is set? (1960s or Present day)
o How are men represented in these pictures? Annotate the pictures showing what mise-en-scene
has been used to represent them a particular way.
o How is ethnicity represented in these pictures? Annotate the pictures showing what mise-en-scene has been used to represent them a particular way.
o Which characters are represented more positively? How do you know from the pictures? How do
they reflect the time at which the Crime Drama is set? (1960s or Present day)
o
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
o Which characters are represented more positively? How do you know from the pictures? How do
they reflect the time at which the Crime Drama is set? (1960s or Present day)
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
Assessment 2: Watch The Avengers ‘The Town of No Return’ (Google classroom) Then, complete the assessment.
1. Analyse how sound is used in the extract to create meaning. Refer to at least two examples from the extract in your answer. (5)
2. Analyse how far the extract depicts the Avengers point of view rather than the criminals’ point of view. In your answer you must:
analyse aspects of the extract using examples to support your analysis
judge how far these aspects depict the Avengers point of view. (10)
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
3. In this question you will be rewarded for drawing together elements from your full course of study, including different areas of the theoretical framework and media contexts. How far does the extract try to create a sense that it is portraying 'real life' in relation to the 1960s? In your answer you must:
analyse aspects of the extract giving detailed examples
judge how far these aspects create a sense of watching 'real life' in relation to the 1960s (15)
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
4. Describe what is meant by 'Public Service Broadcasting' (PSB). Use the BBC as an example in your answer. (5)
Year 10 Media Studies Home Learning Booklet
5. The Avengers. Explain how social contexts influence television programmes. Refer to The Avengers from 1965 to support your answer.
Please return this booklet to to be marked.
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