22nd June. Double lesson with Mrs Baird

For the first part of our double lesson today we looked at Saturday Night, Sunday morning and analysing What is the version of 'Britishness' being presented in the film? and we came up with
- Gritty, industrial 1970s Northern England
- Classic factory workers, with terraced housing
- Coal minors, not a whole lot of money floating around
- Working class
- Rejection of certain dominent moral values of time
- Realism - a view of Britain at the time
- Realist techniques e.g camera work
- Mise-En-Scene, typical industrialised town setting
- Different family model
We then continued on to discuss how diverse it is from the 70s to now and how it was more acceptable for a 25 year to live at home, but now it is sort of considered to be not the 'right' thing to do. And after a certain age, you are seen to be past your time and that leaving the 'nest' is harder.

For the second part of the double, we looked at blogs from other insitutions. A couple of examples were Longroad.com and Aberystwyth University. We asked question, How are these web pages constructed? we looked at colours, text, graphics, content etc..

Start of A2...

Today was our first day back to school after exams and study leave..all set for A2. Had double media with Mrs Baird, and we're looking at what makes us british in media context and British Film!!