AS LL - A great little video to watch

AS Comms - uploading audio to MovieMaker

We recommend converting your audio to WMV before uploading it to MovieMaker (this is relevant to those of you recording your audio on your phones). You can conver audio here:

http://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-wma

MovieMaker seems to have a little bug which sometimes freezes projects once audio in other formats is uploaded.

 

Comms & Culture: Barbie & Gender

Here's an interesting article on the plan to create a new doll based on more realistic body proportions (compared to Barbie) - good to read for gender, power & socialisation: click here to read it

AS LL - All my Sons

Mother's character

Identify the key points made about Mother/Kate in this clip: do you agree? Why/why not?

Imagine you are the examiner and you have been told that the exam question for AMS is going to be on Mother. Choose the two pages that you think would be most appropriate for students to use in analysing the presentation of her character. Come up with 5 reasons for why your chosen extract is the best one to use.

A2 Comms - example podcast

Never speak to me about this; it is deeply embarrassing!

A2 Comms - sound effects for the podcast

The sound effects website can be found by clicking here: Free sound effects.

A2 Lit: coursework 1-1s

Please bring a copy of your essay for yourself to the 1-1, so that you can make notes and follow which parts of the essay I am talking about. It would be good if you have read the essay through again shortly before we meet.

Thursday 6 March: 1E6
10.15 - 10.45: Alex R
10.45 - 11.15: Jess

Friday 7th March: 1D7
3.05 - 3.35: Alex G
3.35 = 4.05: Tekla

Monday 10 March: 1E6
10.15 - 10.45: Katie
10.45 - 11.15: Jada
11.30 - 12.00: Tolu - come to D8

Tuesday 11 March: come to D8
10.15 - 10.45: Sasha
1.00 - 1.30: Ali

Wednesday 12 March: come to D8
2.00 - 2.30: Noah
3.00 - 3.30: Leonie

Thursday 13 March:1E6
10.15 - 10.45: Amelie
10.45 - 11.15: Nana