Well done year 10 on your excellent behaviour at BBC TVC on Tuesday, you were amazing!


Well done yr 13 on your MEST1 January exam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HUmrDa5PPE

This is the text that was in the exam...

BBC Trip

Remember that BBC trip money and consent forms must be in ASAP! We leave school at 7am, so you need to be early.


You need lunch and warm, waterproof clothes, but no school uniform. 


We should be back in time for buses, but might not quite make it, so ensure you've got a back up plan, and a parent on standby!


There's a BBC shop and also a Starbucks and Tesco Express if you'd like to buy snacks and drinks.

Lego representations

Mrs Whyte's year 10s used Lego as the medium to create representations of themselves. This brilliant idea came courtesy of Mr Adam. We had a fun 10 minutes using the bricks to build representations of ourselves which, unsurprisingly, looked nothing like us...

The problem with our Lego representations seemed to be that they weren't true because none of us were quite the same colour or shape as our new plastic friends.

So, what did we learn?

When we see a person on TV, we're only really seeing a representation of them. Just as we choose the Lego bricks to represent us, a producer chooses which aspects of a person to focus on in order to represent them.

Starting out...

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Oaklands Media Blog, where hopefully we can share homework and other useful resources. 


Welcome back to the new term!


Year 10- please find below the links for some relevant music videos for the next unit of your course- Music Video. 


The Knowledge and Understanding section of the task is a 500 word analysis of a music video- depending on your teacher, you may use one of the videos below


Thriller- Michael Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_MuUcxHATo
I need you tonight- Professor Green ft Ed Drewett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9IOAe9jAY
American Boy- Estelle ft Kanye West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic5vxw3eijY