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GCSE course specifications, subject outlines, and careers links can be found on the Subjects page.

 

What is Media Studies? Download Powerpoint (618K) here

 

 
 
 
Year 10  
   

Course reference book:

GCSE Media Studies: Revision Guide (Paperback)
by Richard Parsons
   

AUTUMN TERM

Studying TV Sitcoms

BBC British Sitcom Guide

BBC - Vote for Britain's Best Sitcom

Sitcoms Online I Love Lucy
Fiftiesweb I Love Lucy
Hancock
Tony Hancock Appreciation Society
The Likely Lads
The Liver Birds

 

 

Advertising

Alton Towers
Air promotional page
Air TV Ad clips
J Walter Thompson Ad Agency
TV Choice Alton Towers Video notes

TV Ads
Popular Ad Soundtracks
Absolutely Andy's TV Ad Downloads

News Chronicle (1 & 2 Sept 1939) Adverts
(gif format, b&w, 150dpi)
Dairy Box (358K)
Kit Kat (349K)
Lava Soap (422K)
Rinso (861K)
Schweppes (480K)
Vaseline (145K)

Lucozade & Lara Croft
Ad makers - Animal Logic

 

Rinso Ad (1939)

 

SPRING TERM

Comics & Animation

Comic Artwork & Writing Style Guide

Google Directories
Anime
Animation
Manga
Comics

General links:
Early US Animation
Keyframe - Animation resource
Animation World Network
Jurassic Punk animation clips
Animation Magazine
Comiclopedia - Comic Artists
Manga/Anime Review database
Aardman animation
About.com animation links
Basic animation glossary
Anime - online shop

Hayao Miyazake
Nausicaa.net fan site
Online Ghibli fan site
Miyazake's movies

Coursework texts
Keiji Nakazawa - Barefoot Gen
Barefoot Gen Review
Barefoot Gen synopsis
Raymond Briggs - When the Wind Blows
When the Wind Blows synopsis

Hiroshima & Nagasaki links
Atomic war and UK culture
Protect and Survive booklet (1976)

 

Coursework texts:

 

SUMMER TERM

Movies - Love Hurts

IMDb
Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
Gregory's Girl (1980)

Broadband trailers (from videodetective.com)

Rebel Without A Cause
Gregory's Girl

Reviews

Rebel Without A Cause - detailed review at filmsite.org

Movie Making

One Minute Movies
K-Lite Media Player (18.5Mb) download

 

Coursework texts:

Link to AmazonLink to Amazon

 

Production Assignment - Movie Trailer

Video Detective Trailer Archive
Apple Quicktime Movie Trailers

  
   
Year 11  
   

AUTUMN TERM

Coursework: Website Design

Band Websites

Cool home pages
Not so cool home pages(! )
New Media Studies web design

The Void - slick site by local designers
Elastic Brand - Website Design Co.

Macromedia (Dreamweaver) website
JASC (Paint Shop Pro) website
Colour wheel with RGB/hex codes

Webopedia - Internet dictionary

 

 

 

SPRING TERM

 
Revision BBC GCSE Bitesize
  GCSE Books & Software at Amazon.co.uk
Mediaknowall.com - GCSE  
Thinking about film - BFI  
General Links
Amazon Digital Media Shop
   

British Film Institute
BFI Top 100 British Films
Film Education
Media Ed
BAFTA
BBFC

BARB - TV viewing trends

The Internet Movie Database

EMC Media Magazine

Cheshire Media Companies
Mersey TV
Media UK database
Metacritic review database
The Media Channel

Find DVD Players

Find DVDs
Search:
Keywords:
In Association with Amazon.co.uk

(Orders made via the above links
earn commission for the school)
Aberyswyth University media links database

National Museum of Photography,
Film & Television

Movie props for sale (at a price..)