Regents Review - Summer 2023

The Regents Review Summer 2023

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Media & Film Well, another year is nearly over! Our wonderful Year 11s have made us all very #greenandproud and demonstrated such a high level of resilience and motivation throughout this whole year. We’ve had a big push to get our coursework completed to a very high standard – they look fabulous! This coupled with exams and revision has made for a very busy year. Year 10 media studies students have completed their first full mock exam and are very much looking forward to the summer break. We’ve covered loads of topics: print advertising (Quality Street & This Girl Can), film marketing (The Man with the Golden Gun & No Time To Die), film industry (James Bond franchise), online gaming (Fortnite), radio (The Archers), magazines (Pride & GQ) and have just begun our study of TV. We’ve also started to plan our official coursework. We’re making DVD covers & theatrical posters for a mystery or musical film. Exciting! Our Film Studies GCSE launched into full swing this year and we’ve got two very engaged classes, one in Year 10 and one in Year 9. Year 10 students have explored narrative in District 9, style and aesthetic in Attack the Block and representations in Tsotsi. We are part way through our study of Whiplash for our independent global film and, when we return in September, it’ll be the turn of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and cult-classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Year 9 have developed both their practical skills and theoretical knowledge through this year. We’re focussing particularly on the context of apartheid and South Africa at present, in order to help students’ wider knowledge for our study of Tsotsi and District 9 next year. We’re currently exploring the world of stop-motion films and are using these in tandem with our screenplay skills. New for this year, Year 7, 8 and 9 students have the pleasure of bespoke film studies units made just for them to give them a taste of what the subject is like before selecting their options. Years 8 & 9

have completed their ‘Disneyfication’ and ‘Studio Ghibli’ schemes, and this half term it is the turn of Year 7. We’re exploring heroes in films and what makes a true hero, according to some complicated narrative theories! We’re evaluating Tony Stark in Iron Man and Westley in The Princess Bride, with the additional option for investigating Frodo in Lord of the Rings, or Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Students of the Fortnight for this Term: Miss Smith Izzy Lucy Senesa Gracie Leila Mrs Anibaba Jamie RubyJosh Julia Connie

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