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Welcome to new students

2007-09-06T07:49:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Long Road! We hope you enjoy your time here and do well.

We recommend Media Magazine- £10 for a year's subscription, bring cash or a cheque made out to 'Long Road Sixth Form College' to the college shop asap. To find out more about it, click here

It's the iPod touch!

2007-09-05T15:52:00.000-07:00

Just announced...

and read all about it on the apple site

another prizewinner!

2007-05-17T04:58:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to James, Will, Lottie, David and Matt who made this film for their film A2 coursework and won 1st prize at the Cambridgeshire Magic Box Film Festival competition at the Picturehouse today. They beat off stiff competition from ARU, Hills Road and many other schools in the county. This is the second year running that Long Road has taken the top prize at the festival !

MEDIA STUDIES REVISION BOOKLETS

2007-05-11T02:59:00.000-07:00

Here are digital copies of the AS and A2 Media Revision Booklets for anyone who has misplaced their hard copy.

AS Media Revision (.PDF)

A2 Media Revision (.PDF)

Prize Video

2007-04-25T12:02:00.000-07:00

The results of the voting

1st The Reckoning 95 votes
2nd Immersed 59 votes
3rd Jack Be Nimble 52 votes
4th The Remaining 41 votes

Well done the winners and thanks to everyone for voting. The winning group members will be presented with a prize at Awards evening in July and will receive the trophy at the end of year screening at the Picturehouse. There will be nominations for other categories at the summer screening.

Pete visits some former students now editing in London!

2007-01-11T05:08:00.001-08:00

Pete visited some of his former students working in London as editors yesterday. Jake as many will know from his visits to college now works at "Blue" Post Production with another of Pete's students, Simon Briggs (Managing Director - Blue), while Suzy Davis is an Editor at Final Cut, London.

Here's Jake editing the reported Girls Aloud/Sugarbabes charity collaboration, can't tell you what the track is though, will have to wait!

Simon and Jake in one of many edit suites at Blue P.P.

Go to "Blue" Post Production's website at this link. "Blue" are responsible for the BBC2 advert in which Elvis Presley fronts an All-Star Backing Band... go here to see what blue say about it, and here to listen to a podcast on the making of it!

Suzy Davis works at Final Cut, an edit studio with links in New York and Los Angeles. To date she has edited music videos such as Will Young's "", The Streets, "Fit But You Know It" as well as many TV ads for Boots, Orange, Vodafone, Wrigleys, Pepsi, BBC Radio and Amnesty International.

Suzy at work in her very homely edit suite at Final Cut's London Building.

In The Guardian yet again!

2007-01-09T04:44:00.000-08:00

Missed opportunity
(The Guardian, Tuesday January 9, 2007)

Go to the article on The Guardian homepage.

Film Studies 4 Minute Films on YouTube Now!!

2007-01-08T04:22:00.000-08:00

This year's 4 Minute Films are now on our YouTube page...

Go to www.youtube.com/longroadmedia to see them.

Here's this year's 'Best Film' awarded at the Picturehouse screening...

Visit to Game On at the Science Museum

2006-12-13T12:53:00.000-08:00

WELCOME BACK...

2006-11-24T07:38:00.000-08:00

TO THE NEW AND IMPROVED LONG ROAD MEDIA BLOG!!

It now features links straight to all our other blogs.

KIDS TV
VIDEO GAMES
ACTION FILMS

MUSIC VIDEO
CRITICAL RESEARCH

Enjoy.

Sam On Work Experience Here At Long Road

2006-07-07T01:48:00.000-07:00

Sam Williman Is now doing work experience with us in the media department at long road. As part of his work he is making a Blog about his experiences, and what jobs he's been doing. Here is a link to his blog: http://samlegend.blogspot.com/

Josh On Work Experience

2006-06-29T03:25:00.000-07:00

Over the last two weeks, we've had Josh from Coleridge Community College with us on work experience. Catch up with what he's been up to, on his blog at joshs--blog.blogspot.com

HE and Careers Day Links

2006-06-05T14:00:00.000-07:00

Newman College Blog

John's HE and Careers Blog

Video Vote: YOU DECIDED !

2006-05-25T12:10:00.000-07:00

Each of the AS Media groups nominated one or two videos made during the year to go forward to a compilation DVD for all classes to view. Each member of each class then had up to three votes for the video which they thought was best from the selection. Students were not allowed to vote for their own class' videos.

the result:

10th Phillipe's Travelling Box 24
7th Maths house 25
7th Dark Minds 25
7th The Exchange25
6th Distant Memories 26
5th Fall from Grace 28
4th Abduction 33
2nd Final Cut 38
2nd Full House38
1st Rayner School Cop 66

Well done to all the entries and congratulations to the group who made Rayner.
several videos will be shown at the student award evening on July 6th and the Rayner group will receive their prize at the July 12 Picturehouse show.

Long Road students win video awards !

2006-05-17T14:03:00.000-07:00

At the Magic Box Festival at the Picturehouse on May 17th, one of the three videos entered from the college was voted best film by the audience and also won the top award from the judges. The music video '100 million' made by Darius Lambert, Toni Corrigan, Ollie Jackson and Jack Glossop won the prestigious award. Well done to the group !

picture: Darius with the trophy!

Below: the music promo from Google Video

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members of the group with the trophy: Toni Corrigan and Jack Glossop.

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Free Counters

Critical Research OCR Form

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How did the Arctic monkeys do it ?

2006-02-27T12:47:00.000-08:00

Useful article for those doing new media's impact and youth culture for their research and another here

Critical research exam answers

2006-02-25T06:54:00.000-08:00

How to organise your answers for the Critical research exam

Q.1

Precisely what was your focus ?
Why did you choose the topic ?
Either cover primary research first in totality or secondary
For each method used, outline your approach, the method, one or two concrete examples and then evaluate the material found and the method used
Overall you should be using at least eight paragraphs in Q1: intro, some kind of conclusion and six methods each with method, example and evaluation
Your booklet should enable you to do quite well on this question
All referencing should be thorough and complete
Leave a clear line between each paragraph to aid readability

Q.2

This question asks you to relate your specific focus to the broader topic
You should NOT repeat points already made in Q.1
Q.2 is more critical and theoretical in relation to FINDINGS
There should be a sense of ARGUMENT in this answer
Don’t worry if you don’t do too well in the first mock on this one
Your answer should ideally move systematically through the debates about your topic area and address your FOCUS question or title
Again you should be looking for up to eight paragraphs including intro and conclusion, each with examples and explanations to support points

Critical research notebooks

2006-02-25T06:00:00.000-08:00

Organising the notebook

There are many ways of doing this and ultimately it is whatever is helpful to you that matters

one page could be a complete list of resources (sites, books, etc) although your cover sheet may contain these anyway
one page could be about your Primary research (methods, evaluation, examples)
one page could be about your Secondary research (methods, evaluation, examples)

an alternative would be to have a page on stuff for Q.1- what you'll say about your methods, key quotes, etc
then a page for q.2 on what the arguments are and how your points might link to them

whatever is in your notes should really be stuff you would not otherwise remember anyway e.g. quotes, stats etc
you could use diagrams, tables, spider diagrams, etc
you MUST NOT take in notes for the real exam which look like an essay !

useful site for Critical research

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www.sillitoe-uk.net/media

contains lots of useful links for five of the topic areas. Try them out and let others know on moodle what is there

2006-01-31T12:17:00.000-08:00

Steve's blogs

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(Click on the images above to access the blogs)

Here's the list of my blogs:

S.A.T's Media Blog

Back up information for Media Studies lessons.

Mafia Movies Blog

For my Gen Ed class every tuesday.

S.A.T's Google Video of the Day

Each day (when I can!) I will choose a Google Video to showcase from the hundreds people upload.

Check them out!

How new media changed things in 2005

2006-01-02T03:10:00.000-08:00

Excellent article on today's BBC site especially useful for people re-sitting the 2732 exam.

GOOGLE VIDEO

2005-11-30T09:15:00.000-08:00

I have just loaded up onto GOOGLE VIDEO one music video from this years batch as a trial to see how it works! So come on everybody click on the link below to view it and lets get it on the Google Video 'Most popular videos' homepage!

P1-01 ::: 100 Million - Audio Bullys

The new beta version of GOOGLE VIDEO offers viewers a way to see material from archived TV programs, educational videos, personal productions and more.

Just type in your search term (for instance, ipod or animation) or do a more advanced search (for instance, title:nightline) and Google Video will search the closed captioning and text descriptions of all the videos in our archive for relevant results. Click on a video title on your results page and you can view still images from the video and, where a transcript is available, short snippets of transcript text.

Some of the videos will allow you to play the video, and will feature a small triangle "play" icon in the image thumbnail. Try typing in the following search terms to watch free videos: gamespot, Greenpeace, awesome acrobatics, badminton, PS3, cattlemen, hortus, sarong, breakdancing, capoeira.

Recent contributors to the Google Upload program include The Photography Channel, Metropole Filmworx, witness.org, UNICEF, CNET, Greenpeace, hurricanenow.com, Here! TV and many more.

**** Also check out the GOOGLE VIDEO OF THE DAY blog.
Each day one of the more interesting videos submitted is highlighted.
A good example recently was the 'Micheal Jackson Faces' video.

SAT

GOOGLE VIDEO

GOOGLE VIDEO OF THE DAY

OFFICIAL GOOGLE VIDEO OF THE DAY

S.A.T's GOOGLE VIDEO OF THE DAY

Goldie Looking chain video

2005-11-06T14:10:00.000-08:00

Ben Unwin's latest video is accessible here and a wide range of other videos by directors at Bikini films can be viewed on the same site

S1-32 SG

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S1-32 SG
Originally uploaded by Pete Fraser1.

R1-30 SG

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R1-30 SG
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R1-29 SG

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R1-29 SG
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R1-28 SG

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R1-28 SG
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R1-27 SG

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R1-27 SG
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R1-26 SG

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R1-26 SG
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R1-25 SG

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R1-25 SG
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Q2-24 SG

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Q2-24 SG
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Q2-23 SG

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Q2-23 SG
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Q2-22 SG

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Q2-22 SG
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Q2-21 SG

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Q2-21 SG
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Q2-20 SG

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Q2-20 SG
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Q2-19 SG

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Q2-19 SG
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Q1-18 SG

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Q1-18 SG
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Q1-17 SG

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Q1-17 SG
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Q1-16 SG

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Q1-16 SG
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Q1-15 SG

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Q1-15 SG
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Q1-14 SG

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Q1-14 SG
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Q1-13 SG

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Q1-13 SG
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P2-12 SG

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P2-12 SG
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P2-11 SG

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P2-11 SG
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P2-10 SG

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P2-10 SG
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P2-09 SG

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P2-09 SG
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P2-08 SG

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P2-08 SG
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P2-07 SG

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P2-07 SG
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P1-05 SG

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P1-05 SG
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P1-04 SG

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P1-04 SG
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P1-03 SG

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P1-03 SG
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P1-02 SG

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P1-02 SG
Originally uploaded by Pete Fraser1.

P1-01 SG

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P1-01 SG
Originally uploaded by Pete Fraser1.

Media re-sits Tuesday

2005-10-16T06:52:00.000-07:00

The re-sits for Media are on Tues 17 Jan (pm)
What you can do to prepare...

2731 Textual Analysis: watch Action sequences and make notes on the five areas to analyse- Sound, FX, Editing, Camera, Mise-en-scene. watch 'making of' extras on DVDs for background on how fx are achieved. Do some practice writing to time.

Video games- choose two games to write about . Pick games with clear characters and structures, not sports or racing games as there is not so much you can easily write about. GTA is ideal ! Click on barney's games blog link opposite for more useful stuff and go to the AS section of our main longroadmedia site.

2732 New tech: go to the BBC site and read about what is happening with new technologies. Read through some of Bill Thompson's old columns. Remember that for this exam you need to read a passage and answer several short questions, then do a sort of mini-essay before writing a full half hour essay. Practice will help immensely ! Two pages minimum for Q.3 or 4 ! Check out more of the links below for up to date material.

For all areas use our main site and find the relevant pages

Histon FC

2005-10-07T14:54:00.000-07:00

We are currently working on a new project making links with the rising stars of Conference South, Histon F.C.

see the next post...

2005-10-07T02:53:00.000-07:00

Histon FC are looking for students to help with programme writing, website work, taking photos and even shooting video on matchdays. If you are interested, contact Gill Hamilton, who works in the Long road office:
ghamilton@longroad.ac.uk

animation with iStopMotion

2005-10-07T02:48:00.000-07:00

Have a look at these websites:
for examples of lego animation with iStopMotion and
from the main iStopMotion site for a variety of possibilities with the program

Club Cow

2005-09-18T10:27:00.002-07:00

Club Cow
Originally uploaded by Pete Fraser1.