Year 09 Creative Media
Curriculum:
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Introduction to Creative Media
	Magazines
	
	Key Concepts
	Key Concepts
	
	- Three sectors of Media: Interactive, Publishing and Audio/Moving Image
 - Target Audience Demographics and Psychographics
 - Stereotypes and representations of people, places and ideas
 - Analysing and evaluating media texts
 
- Codes and conventions of magazines
 - Technical skills associated with producing a magazine
 - Pre-production processes in magazines
 
Key Vocabulary:
	Key Vocabulary:
	
	
		Media, products, sectors, interactive, publishing, moving image, audio, TV show, movie, podcast, advertisement, audience, representation, producers, consumers, demographics, psychographics, representations, stereotypes, appeal
	
	
	
		Pre-production, magazine, mood board, audience, house style, font, headline, tag line, by-line, codes, conventions, colour, style, tone, image, client, production, spread, construct
	
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TV/Sitcoms
	Magazine Production
	
	Key Concepts:
	Key Concepts:
	
	- Three sectors of Media: Interactive, Publishing and Audio/Moving Image
 - Target Audience Demographics and Psychographics
 - Stereotypes and representations of people, places and ideas
 - Analysing and evaluating media texts
 
- Codes and conventions of magazines
 - Technical skills associated with producing a magazine
 - Pre-production processes in magazines
 
Key Vocabulary:
	Key Vocabulary:
	
	
		History, development, digital, analogue, change, humour, audience, target, producers, camera, lighting, sound, editing, laugh track, theme song, opening credits, character, setting, plot, dilemma, equilibrium
	
	
	
		Pre-production, magazine, mood board, audience, house style, font, headline, tag line, by-line, codes, conventions, colour, style, tone, image, client, production, spread, construct
	
Click to Expand Summer Content:
Meaning in Media Products
	Magazine Evaluation
	
	Key Concepts:
	Key Concepts:
	
	- Three sectors of Media: Interactive, Publishing and Audio/Moving Image
 - Target Audience Demographics and Psychographics
 - Stereotypes and representations of people, places and ideas
 - Analysing and evaluating media texts
 
- Codes and conventions of magazines
 - Technical skills associated with producing a magazine
 - Pre-production processes in magazines
 
Key Vocabulary:
	Key Vocabulary:
	
	
		Media, products, sectors, interactive, audience, representation, producers, consumers, demographics, psychographics, representations, stereotypes, appeal, Propp, Todorov, equilibrium, uses & gratifications model, passive, active
	
	
	
		Pre-production, magazine, mood board, audience, house style, font, headline, tag line, by-line, codes, conventions, colour, style, tone, image, client, production, spread, construct
	
Subject Overview:
Students in Year 9 have 3 Creative Media lessons each week.
In Year 9, students have 1 piece of homework set every week.
Assessments:
Students are assessed every half term through a variety of means; knowledge tests, practical assignments or analytical tasks.

