Music Paress lesson 1

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• THE MUSIC PRESS: Print and Online

YOUR EXAM TOPIC -2013

What is ‘the press’What is it we will be studying ?

How can you research this?

Questions?Thoughts?

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To analyse genre and conventionsTo explore music listening habits (of the

class and wider community)

Lesson 1: Aims

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Media Terminology

• Every lesson during this topic we are going to try and build up our terminology.

• Make a glossary at the back of your book.

• Why is it important we use ‘Media Words’?

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GENRE + CONVENTIONS

• Can you define these?• Could you give an example for the ‘Fashion

magazine’ genre?

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• What styles of music do you know and understand? (apart from Rnb!!!!)

Music GenresGenre Conventions

HOW COULD YOU MAKE MAGAZINES THAT IDENTIFY WITH THESE CONVENTIONS?

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1. Create a pie chart for how long you spend listening to different genres of music each week.

2. Name some of the places you actually listen to your music.

• Which genres would you say are the most popular?

• If we had asked 100 young people in hackney what would the percentage be?

Music habits

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Mr Sloan’s Music habits

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What do you know already?• This topic has raised some concerns with

teachers. As a genre for study its an are that you might not know too much about

• Do you guys know much about music magazines ?

• Lets find out!

Problem: Magazines!

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Where does the word magazine come from?How many genres of magazine could you name?Could you name 10 music magazines?What does a typical magazine contain? How confident do you feel about this topic so far?

Music Magazine Genre quiz

Extra: Could you complete the information audit ?

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Take one statement from the list. Find out how many people in your class this statement is true for.Keep a tally or a list of names and think of a way to present your findings to the class.

Find Someone Who...

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To analyse genre and conventionsTo explore music listening habits (of the

class and wider community)

Review of Aims

Why is it important for us

to know how much we know now?

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Homeowork / Questions

1. For homework YOU NEED TO BUY 1 MUSIC MAGAZINE (choose your genres)

2. Ask 5 people to describe their music listening habits