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Media Subject
Teaching Awards Film
This week a group of Year 8 students and groups of Year 10 students have been making films for a competition held by the Teaching Awards which asks students across the country to make a film which showcases their school.
Our students have come up with some superb ideas and some wonderful camera shots and movement through which to show how brilliant St. Catherine’s is.
Their films have all been sent off and we await the result…
First of our KS4 Media Seminars
On Thursday an ex- St. Catherine’s student, Melissa Foley-Encabo came in to the Media Suite to deliver the first of our after school Media Seminars to students from Year 10 and 11.
She is currently working at a Post-Production company in Soho and has worked on programmes such as The X Factor and Tonight with Jonathan Ross. Her seminar was an informative account of how she got into the Media Industry.
She also explained to the students what it is like to work in the section of the Industry that her company deals with and gave valuable advice on how to get a first foot on the ladder of a career in Media.
A Tomlinson
Guardian Nation film-making competition – finalists!
Recently, we announced in Contact that a group of Year 8 students had been working on a media project producing a film based on an extract from Terry Pratchetts new novel „Nation.
This film was produced as part of a pro-ject with the National Theatre who are putting on a stage production of „Nation and who ran a nationwide compe-tition for the best short film made.
I am delighted to an-nounce that our students film has been shortlisted as one of the 5 finalists in their age category.
The students have all won tickets to see the play, „Nation. The winning film will be announced in the The Guardian newspaper this week.
This is fantastic national recognition for these stu-dents and a wonderful achievement.
Congratulations to
Poppy Pike 8T, Isabel Gay 8T, Angel Nakirayi 8H, Lily Turner 8A, Michaela Amos 8C and Amy Foy 8c
Year 10 BTEC trip to the British Film Institute
Last Friday a group of Year 10 students attended the launch of the prestigious BFI Young Film Makers project: a pro-ject aimed at students in schools across the South East which encourages them to make short films on different themes and topics each year to be shown at the BFI and archived there, too.
This year, the BFI has teamed up with their French equivalent – Le Cinematheque Francaise, to create a project based around French cinematic techniques and camera movements. It is called „Le Cinema Cent Ans‟ and this time, not only are students from London schools taking part, but also those from Italy, Portugal, Spain and France.
I am sure that the Year 10 students who are mak-ing films for this project during the next 6 months will be very successful.
Our trip to the BFI (Katie-Marie Case.)
On the 11th December, Ms Tomlinsons Year 10 Media BTEC class had the chance to go up to the South Bank in London to the BFI.
There we were able to meet with Yohan Forbes, a young film director. We were lucky enough to watch one of his short films, „Project 1 which uses camera movement to create a story about skateboarding.
We were told that it is quite a cutting edge filming technique that he uses and we learnt about how to use camera move-ments in film, so that we can use these in our own films. It was a fantastic and interesting day and we are really looking forward to making our own innovative films, now.
7C Charity event
7C had a sale on Wednesday 2nd of December and Wednesday 9th of December at break in A13.
We invited all year 7 to come and buy some items which were put on display.
On our first sale we raised £72.17 and on our second sale we raised £27.70.
We thank all who came and all the money will go to the Year 7 Advent charity – The Little Flowers Orphanage.
Matanda Besai. 7C
Recycling Drama/Media project
The Bexley council wrote a script about recycling and global warming and wanted St Catherines girls to perform it to primary school children.
So some members of 7c learned the script off by heart and performed it to st Joseph‟s primary school last Tuesday. It was accompanied by a film made by members of 7C.
It was a great success and taught the children a lot. We thank the Bexley council for giving us this opportunity and Ms Woodacre for giving up her lunchtimes to help us rehearse and to Ms Tomlinson and Mr Hayter for helping us to make the film.
Genevieve Redgrave 7C
The Wind in the Willows
This Thursday a group of 120 Year 7s were taken by members of the English department to see The Wind in the Willows at the Miskin Theatre – a local fringe theatre.
They are studying an extract from the novel as well as a part of the screenplay used to make the novel into a film, so this was an exciting opportunity for them to see it on stage. We had a lovely time and the students really enjoyed the play.
Many thanks to Mrs Williams, Mr Bell, Mr Hayter, Ms Benson, Ms MacDougal and Mrs Cook who accompanied us and helped to organise the trip.
A. Tomlinson
On Wednesday 24th June, Year 5 St. Thomas More pupils visited the school to take part in our first, ‘Primary Arts Day’.
This was the culmination of 2 Inset Days for Primary School teachers and follow up visits by Media teachers from the school.
The aim of the project was to create a Screenplay, during the students’ lesson time of Roald Dahl’s version of ‘Cinderella’.
They brought their screenplay to St. Catherine’s to be filmed yesterday and it was a great success! The Drama, Music, Art and Media Subject Areas teamed up to create the film experience.
Students learned how to act for film in a real ‘studio’ environment and managed the set, cameras and lights with help from Mr Warburton, Mr Bell, Ms Tomlinson and Mr Jones. Ms Turner, from Art, helped the pupils create the images for the set which consisted of symbolic representations of the key points of narrative throughout the screenplay, whilst Mr Allen recorded the soundtrack for the film. It was a highly creative, interactive day and the pupils from St. Thomas More added lots of extra ideas throughout the day about how to film the different elements of the story.
It was so much fun that their class teacher, Mrs Woodcock, has allowed them to come back next Wednesday for an extra session to have a go at editing their film!
Media Studies is taught as a discrete subject at Key Stage 4.
GCSE Media Studies and BTEC Media are both highly popular options at this level.
The results for both courses are consistently excellent.
Media Studies is also taught within English at Key Stage 3, but as a subject at the heart of our Specialism, it is used across the Curriculum at both Key Stages to enhance learning and engage students.
The Media Department is actively involved in all areas of the school, outside of the Curriculum.
There are many opportunities for students to become involved in Extra-Curricular activities related to Media.
The school is known as a centre of excellence for Media Arts practice and the Department has strong links with outside Media agencies, such as the British Film Institute.
The Media Department works within the Community to provide opportunities for community groups to use our excellent resources for creative projects
More to come
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