As part of my professional development I have asked to start teaching a-level media. Today I had my first lesson with a year 12 group who have just taken their AS exam and are starting the A2 course. They are starting to look at how to deconstruct a music video. The person that was observing me is an AST and his feedback has been integral to my training year. The girls took a long time to come to the lesson because they were coming from assembly. Therefore, my starter had to be shortened and I gave the students 1 minute to come up with 10 terms relating to the picture of Geri Halliwell. If I were to do this activity again I would consider giving them more structured ideas such as aspects of mise en scene or connotations/denotation.
The students were then asked to watched the video. I wanted the students to watch and enjoy the video. I maybe should have capitalised on the fact that the students are now active viewers and asked for their initial thoughts about the video. I gave the students questions to consider after watching the video for the first time and the observer said this could considered to be guiding their thinking. I maybe should have just had a freer approach to the discussion about the video. We then watched the video for the second time and as they were watching it I wanted the students to consider the questions I presented to them. This then led into a class discussion where we discussed a variety of things. However, I think I could have probed more about representation as the only representation we discussed was of women.
Towards the end of the lesson we started reading the academic essay and I maybe should have given this type of laborious reading task as homework. I asked the students to continue reading this article for homework and highlight the key points. I should have been far more specific about what I wanted them to highlight (for example, camera shots, things to do with mise en scene...)
On my lesson plan I have to include a section where I consider all, most, and some as clear evidence of differentiation and I need to think far more carefully about this.The observer and I discussed that the all could have been identified some of the key features the some could have been the intertextual references.
Other things I could have considered: is this exhibitionism as opposed to voyeurism and, consider the theory of star status and the star as an institutional vehicle.
For next lesson we will discuss breaking down the video even further and Goodwin's key features.
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