The Future of Gaming

EA Games are looking to the console producers to come together and produce a single platform. Will it ever happen?

12-32 Gladiator H/W

BBC News Editors Explain Their Decisions

The BBC News site has an editor's blog, where many of the decisions made by BBC News programmes are justified and explained by the editors who made them. This is a really useful resource for the Broadcast News and Current Affairs section of the Debates paper in Year 13.

Burntwood Students Win Magazine Pitch!!

A group of Year 13 Media students went to BBC Worldwide yesterday for a workshop on magazines. During the course of the day they had to come up with ideas for a new magazine and pitch the idea to the good people at the BBC. Using the wealth of knowledge they had gleaned from their Lifestyle Magazines unit in Year 12, they stole top prize from all the other schools in attendance and bagged a few HMV vouchers.

Look out for the students concerned at whole school assembly on Wednesday 17th October.

Make a name for yourself - make a film!

Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK are looking for ideas for short films about smoking and why it's not the best way to pass the time. You're all full of bright ideas so why not give it a go. You may well end up making the film with the support of Channel 4. For more details go to the website - click on the title of this post.

yet another Media Glossary

Try this link -it's a good one to increase your ability to engage with Media texts in the required manner.

When you get to the page look to the left and in the index box, click the EA button and hey presto!


http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html

Hamlet homework 13:52

KING CLAUDIUS

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted
To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom
To be contracted in one brow of woe,
Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
Together with remembrance of ourselves.
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
The imperial jointress to this warlike state,
Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,–
With an auspicious and a dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole,–
Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd
Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
With this affair along. For all, our thanks.
Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
To our most valiant brother. So much for him.
Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:
Thus much the business is: we have here writ
To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,–
Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
Of this his nephew's purpose, –to suppress
His further gait herein; in that the levies,
The lists and full proportions, are all made
Out of his subject: and we here dispatch
You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,
For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;
Giving to you no further personal power
To business with the king, more than the scope
Of these delated articles allow.
Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.

Using examples in your answer, how would you describe the performance of the King in his first appearance in the play. You may want to focus on:

• the use of figurative language
• the tone and how it changes
• how Claudius' kingship is represented

Email me on gringle@tesco.net if your not sure of any part of the question.

Independent Media in a Time of War

From what you saw of the documentary in today's lesson P3 Mon 1st October, how successful do feel TV news is as a method of disseminating information.