Brighouse High Sixth Form College Level 3 Media Studies Induction

What can I do to prepare for A Level Media Studies?

Exam Board: EDUQAS

Look at the following set texts in preparation for the course. There are a number of additional documentaries, articles and youtube clips that will help you understand the ideas. There are also a number of theorists you will study, so have a look at the theorist on this list and do some background research into their ideas- not background into their lives!

Set Text Background Research/concepts To prepare- look at the following during the Summer Holidays:

Tide print ad (1950)

- Women in 1950’s Women moving back into the home. Domesticity/ femininity Nuclear family

- American history in 1950’s Post WW2 Cold War paranoia Consumerism Suburbanisation

- Gender Stereotypes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmka2mydsD0&t=1s

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40638343

Wateraid Audio Visual advert Claudia-

- Charity advert conventions - Gender Stereotypes

Watch: Water Aid Advert: https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=Uiy3dkTwPcQ

Oxfam Advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyyNCKsMSc4&t=13s& disable_polymer=true

Beyonce- Formation

American history Slavery in USA

- Plantations - Antebellum

Civil Rights Movement Hands Up Don’t Shoot campaign Black Lives Matter New Orleans and hurricane Katrina

Beyonce video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZJPJV__bQ

That B.E.A.T New American Noise. New Orleans. Bounce Music:

https://vimeo.com/58423297

Hurricane Katrina https://www.history.com/topics/hurricane-katrina

Netflix Documentary: ‘13th’ Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.

Vance Joy- Riptide

- Vance Joy - Music video conventions - Post-modernism

Riptide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_1HMAGb4k

I Daniel Blake- Film Ken Loach

-Independent Films - Cannes Film Festival Palm D’Or

award - public service broadcasting BBC- aims and intentions Research Ken Loach films Difference between UK and USA television- public service broadcasting BFI- British Film Institute

I, Daniel Blake- (watch the film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Iaycp5IU&disable_polymer=true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8jbVGKICso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvu3rRZrFqY&disable_p olymer=true