Year 9 Media Studies

Teenage tv dramas lucas from Mrs Downie How teens are shown in tv series molly from Mrs Downie Teenage stereotypes charlotte, kim and soph from Mrs Downie Teenagers in tv drama chloe, liam and fin from Mrs Downie Teenagers in tv drama allison, molly and izzy from Mrs Downie Teenagers in tv drama allison, molly and izzy from Mrs Downie Teenagers in tv dramas cameron from Mrs Downie Teenager movies and films fin harry and owen from Mrs Downie

How are teenagers represented? Realistic or Stereotypical? Task: Find 5 TV dramas and explain how the characters are represent teenagers. Give your opinion about whether they are realistic and therefore appeal to you as the target audience or rely on stereotypes. Challenge Task: Soaps tend to target older audiences and so may use more stereotypical teenage characters. Look at some of these famous teenagers and look at how realistically teenagers are being represented here.

Teenage Stereotypes A stereotype is a thought that can be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality. Is it fair how teenagers are represented in the media? Look for a variety of images representing the typical teenager. Is is easy to find positive images or are most of them negative? Why is this the case? Research Task Collect a range of images on a Powerpoint slide - Print this out to stick into your book. Find three news articles which involve teenagers. Using these images and articles as your evidence. Write in your book about what you think are the key stereotypes that teenagers have to cope with? Do you think it is fair? Extension Task Can you think of anywhere in the media where teenagers are presented in a positive or realistic way? Add this to your work to try and balance your argument about teenage stereotyping.

Welcome to GCSE Media! During Year 9 you will get to learn lots of new vocabulary to help you discuss media texts like an expert. Media texts are anything from television programmes, films and You Tube videos to newspapers, computer games and music albums. These media texts are any product that is creatively produced to entertain specific audience groups. We want to know what has inspired you to pick this course by finding out more about your own media interests. You are going to describe your favourites  using images and examples from the media products you buy into at home.  Task: Choose five areas of the Media that you like . Within each area pick your five favourites.  Add a description/explanation/justification. Add images to illustrate. Print work out and stick in your exercise books. Creativity tips These moodboard and scrapbook examples below showcase creativity with their artistic mix of fonts, graphics and images. Using mixed media, colour, te...

For your GCSE coursework next year you will be given a brief to create a magazine targeted at a specific target audience. This is worth 30% of your GCSE grade and so you need to be ready to showcase your layout, photography and journalistic skills. This task will give you the opportunity to practise these essential Media Studies skills. This term, you have been learning about how You Tubers make a profit from their audiences and analysing their appeal to target audiences.  You are going to use this knowledge to create a magazine article about your own original You Tube star. The article needs to be an interview or feature about your imaginary star which would be read by their subscribers. Magazines are aware of the appeal to You Tube and they would include these kinds of features for their readers. It would be a selling point of their magazine. Task: Create a magazine feature article about a fictional YouTuber. Your article will be for a double page spread in a magazine t...

Click on the image to find a workbook packed full of useful media terminology for your You Tubers unit of work.