Welcome Back! Moving onto GCSE coursework...

Welcome back from your half term break... I'm sure you spent all your time reading over your work and carrying out independent research into the Media. Well after you made such a fantastic start to the course last term, its now time to move onto your first piece of GCSE work (exciting!).

Structure of the GCSE course:

3 Controlled Assessments- coursework projects which make up 60% of your final grade
1 Exam - a one and a half hour paper sat in June (either 2013 or 2014) making up the remaining 40%

Coursework Assignments:
1. Advertising and Marketing (individual)
2. Cross Media Promotion: Film Promotion (individual)
3. Magazine Production (in pairs)

Each coursework assignment will require you to examine an area of the Media and learn how it works as a business, and how it appeals to audiences. You will learn how to analyse various media texts (such as adverts, film posters, magazine front covers etc) and learn specific terminology (words) to make your analyses mature and intelligent. You will also learn how to make your own professional media texts in that specific area using the latest media technologies.

To begin with we will be starting with the first assignment... Advertising and Marketing

Remember to keep checking this blog for information covered in lessons and links to useful resources.