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Item Details
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THE MEDIA PACK
UNITS FOR GCSE MEDIA AND ENGLISH |
| By: |
English & Media Centre, Jenny Grahame |
| Format: |
Mixed media product |
| List price:
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£69.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0907016782 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780907016786 |
| Publisher: |
ENGLISH & MEDIA CENTRE |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2002 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
Five self-contained units of media work suitable for both English and Media Studies GCSE, with fully integrated DVD. |
| Synopsis: |
Cops on the Box * Activities and background on why TV crime drama is so popular with audiences and producers; what makes a good crime narrative and how representations of law and order have changed from Dixon of Dock Green to The Cops. * Writing to analyse, review and comment; structured argument writing tasks and close textual analysis exercises, role-plays, and practical production activities. * Video includes: extracts from UK crime drama (1956 to 2001); a video interview with Tony Garnett, producer of Between the Lines, This Life and The Cops. Selling chocolate, changing lives - an advertising simulation * Opportunities to debate questions of representation and audience. * Support for producing commercials in a variety of media with both oral and written outcomes. * Links with the Citizenship curriculum. TeenZines * Opportunities for language work, non-fiction reading and argument writing. * Background to the magazine industry and its marketing strategies. * Lively and accessible non-fiction and editorial texts for close analysis. * Detailed explorations of design and layout, image analysis, and varieties of language.Bait - reading and writing a short film * A workshop approach to analysing and making a short film. * Tasks to develop textual analysis skills. * Small-group screen-writing exercises. * Sustained written and practical assignments for English or Media coursework (writing a screenplay; still-movie productions). * On video: an award-winning short film, Bait, plus an interview with the director. * Extracts from the original script and production documentation. Understanding the Music Business * A hands-on music industry simulation. * Opportunities to analyse and write different varieties of music journalism, produce lyrics, formal reports, oral pitches, press information and a variety of other practical outcomes. |
| Illustrations: |
Ill. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
English & Media Centre |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
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