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Creativity: CD Cover Activity 2

The task: Make a CD Cover with no restrictions.

Choose your own image, title and artist.
OR
Make a cover for either an existing artist or a made up one.
OR
Make a CD cover for an existing CD-give it your own version.

Remember to use Photoshop and find a high-quality image to make your product look as good as possible. Think back to the CD Cover Evaluation you have written in your books. What did you learn from that first activity that you can use here?

Year 11 Work To Do

By the end of the lesson Friday 17 October period 4 you need to have completed the following:

• Answered all the questions in the TV Comedy: Introduction post
• Answered all the questions in the TV Comedy: Research post

Hand in your work in your exercise book by the end of the lesson.

HOMEWORK

Over the half term week, keep a diary of all the TV programmes you watch, the time they are on and the channels they are broadcast on.
If you only watch programmes on Netflix or Amazon Instant Video then still compile a list of shows watched, along with the times you viewed them.

Deadline: Tuesday 28th October

Year 10 Creativity:CD Cover: Representation of Teenagers

Look at the activity below and create a CD cover that would appeal to a teenage audience, thinking about how teenagers should be represented. Avoid the stereotypes you found in your research.

GCSE MEDIA: Creativity:CD Cover Activity 1: THE ACTIVITY 1. Generate a name for your band by using WikiPedia's random page selector tool , and using the first article title on wh...


Once you have created your new CD Cover, you need to explain the changes you have made to your product to ensure it appeals to a younger teenage audience.

Use the Evaluation questions to help you write this on a Word document.

1. Why does your original CD Cover fail to appeal to a young teenage audience? Comment on Font, colour, image and name of the artist and album.

2. What changes have you made? Again, comment on font, colour, image and name of the artist and album.

3. How did you make these changes? Explain, step-by-step the changes you have made. This is called a Production Log.

4. Why do you think this will appeal to a teenage audience? Think about how teenagers are Represented and the conventions that are designed to attract the audience.

TV Comedy Introduction: Institution Research

1. List all the BBC channels.
2. What is the target audience for each channel?
3. How do they all differ?
4. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.
5. List all the ITV channels.
6. What is the target audience for each channel?
7. How do they all differ?
8. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.
9. List all the Channel 4 channels.
10. What is the target audience for each channel?
11. How do they all differ?
12. What type of programmes do they tend to show? List five of the most popular for each channel. Classify the programmes by genre.

GCSE MEDIA: TV Comedy: Introduction

1. What is the BBC?
2. Name as many BBC programmes as possible.
3. Which ones do you watch?
4. What times are they shown on TV?
5. What is the Licence fee?
6. How much does it cost?
7. What is ITV?
8. Name as many ITV programmes as possible.
9. Which ones do you watch?
10. What times are they shown on TV?
11. What is the 'Watershed'?

How are Teenagers Represented on TV?

"Hoodies, louts, scum"

•http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hoodies-louts-scum-how-media-demonises-teenagers-1643964.html

This newspaper article looks at how teenagers are represented in a negative way in the media. TV dramas often depict teenagers as the same.

Research Task: Working in groups of four, create a powerpoint presentation about how teenagers are represented on television.
You can use your research work from last lesson to help you get started. Your presentation must include clips from TV dramas or soaps that illustrate society's usual stereotypical beliefs about young people. You may find it in the costumes, music, their behaviour, how the characters speak themselves or how other characters speak about them.

How are teenagers Represented in the media?

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 it easy to find positive images or are most of them negative? Why is this the case?


Research Task:
1. Collect a range of images on a powerpoint slide. - Print this out to stick into your book.
2. Find three news articles which involve teenagers.
3. 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 this is fair?




Extension Task:
Can you think of anywhere in the media where teenagers are presented in a positive light. Add this to your work to try and balance your argument about teenage stereotyping.