Year 09 Creative Media
Curriculum:
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Introduction to Creative Media
Magazines
Key Concepts
Key Concepts
- Three sectors of Media: Interactive, Publishing and Audio/Moving Image
- Target Audience Demographics and Psychographics
- Stereotypes and representations of people, places and ideas
- Analysing and evaluating media texts
- Codes and conventions of magazines
- Technical skills associated with producing a magazine
- Pre-production processes in magazines
Key Vocabulary:
Key Vocabulary:
Media, products, sectors, interactive, publishing, moving image, audio, TV show, movie, podcast, advertisement, audience, representation, producers, consumers, demographics, psychographics, representations, stereotypes, appeal
Pre-production, magazine, mood board, audience, house style, font, headline, tag line, by-line, codes, conventions, colour, style, tone, image, client, production, spread, construct
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TV/Sitcoms
Magazine Production
Key Concepts:
Key Concepts:
- Three sectors of Media: Interactive, Publishing and Audio/Moving Image
- Target Audience Demographics and Psychographics
- Stereotypes and representations of people, places and ideas
- Analysing and evaluating media texts
- Codes and conventions of magazines
- Technical skills associated with producing a magazine
- Pre-production processes in magazines
Key Vocabulary:
Key Vocabulary:
History, development, digital, analogue, change, humour, audience, target, producers, camera, lighting, sound, editing, laugh track, theme song, opening credits, character, setting, plot, dilemma, equilibrium
Pre-production, magazine, mood board, audience, house style, font, headline, tag line, by-line, codes, conventions, colour, style, tone, image, client, production, spread, construct
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Meaning in Media Products
Magazine Evaluation
Key Concepts:
Key Concepts:
- Three sectors of Media: Interactive, Publishing and Audio/Moving Image
- Target Audience Demographics and Psychographics
- Stereotypes and representations of people, places and ideas
- Analysing and evaluating media texts
- Codes and conventions of magazines
- Technical skills associated with producing a magazine
- Pre-production processes in magazines
Key Vocabulary:
Key Vocabulary:
Media, products, sectors, interactive, audience, representation, producers, consumers, demographics, psychographics, representations, stereotypes, appeal, Propp, Todorov, equilibrium, uses & gratifications model, passive, active
Pre-production, magazine, mood board, audience, house style, font, headline, tag line, by-line, codes, conventions, colour, style, tone, image, client, production, spread, construct
Subject Overview:
Students in Year 9 have 3 Creative Media lessons each week.
In Year 9, students have 1 piece of homework set every week.
Assessments:
Students are assessed every half term through a variety of means; knowledge tests, practical assignments or analytical tasks.
