1. Pressing ‘Play’ On A Video
Sugar-coat your lessons with ideas from the easiest subject at Burgate…!

2. 1 - Using online workspaces
2- Setting up a Facebook Group for your subject
3 -Making the most of your visual clips

3. 1 - Using online workspaces Sites such as PBWorks and Wordpress
Students cannot lose their work and they can print it multiple times
They can see each others’ work and you can see theirs (including the date and time they did the work
They can audio-visual clips, YouTube clips etc.
They can post links to good examples of work and research, as well as the work spaces of previous year groups
To see a template of this in action,
search Google for: Burgate Media PBWorks

4. 2- Setting up a Facebook Group for your subject
You can post homework on it – it’s on their smart phones
You can remind them of deadlines and things to bring to lessons
You can post useful clips – YouTube/Vimeo etc. or even your own!
You can show examples of good student work on it/revision tasks etc.
Lower-Sixth-Media

5. 3 -Making the most of your visual clips
Get students to analyse clips using Windows Movie Maker/Sony Movie Studio/iMovie etc.
Can be simple overlays or an audio commentary
Import clips you find on YouTube
Share the videos with students on Facebook and/or you online workspace
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6. 3 -Making the most of your visual clips
Get students to analyse clips using Windows Movie Maker/Sony Movie Studio/iMovie etc.
Can be simple overlays or an audio commentary
Import clips you find on YouTube
Share the videos with students on Facebook and/or you online workspace
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7. 3 -Making the most of your visual clips
When looking at moving image audio-visual clips, get the student to isolate these four technical features, and what these might mean:
Camera-work close-ups, long shots, low-angle shots, high angle shots
Editing fades, dissolves, jump-cuts, cross-cutting etc.
Mise-en-scene lighting, costume, locations and props
Sound music, dialogue, sound effects, sound motifs

8. 3 -Making the most of your visual clips
When using a media text, encourage students to not view them as ‘innocent’ – ask them about the following:
Audience who is it aimed at and how does this impact upon the messages and values
Institution who produced it and why? The BBC? The Daily Mail? ITV? Disney? Times Warner etc.?
Representation how people are depicted – age, race, sex, class, disability, regional identity etc.
Form and conventions basically the genre features (e.g what makes a feature film different to a documentary etc.)

9. Now it’s your turn!