What makes good interview technique?

•Eye contact
•Being friendly and encouraging while still making your point
•Using open ended questions
•Projection and confidence
•Prepare your questions beforehand
•Before the interview, chat and put your interviewee at ease
•Give out the questions in advance so answers can prepared
•Responding to the answers you get

Student Blog Update

We are nearly all organised! I am now following everyone's blogs except Vanessa's.

You should all be following all four teacher blogs, by adding these URLs to your 'Blogs I am following':

http://cmmediasns.blogspot.com/
http://cmdramasns.blogspot.com/
http://cmartsns.blogspot.com/
http://cmdesignsns.blogspot.com/

And you can also follow each other's blogs and make helpful comments if they miss out important information.


Gold stars for Yasemin, Corey, Rianna, Kai, Farah, Gina and Anne-Marie who have already uploaded their mindmaps and are completely up to date!

Unit 1 - Scene

Across Drama, Art, Textiles and now Media, we are looking at the creative and media scene in London: what jobs are available, what are those jobs are about and what skills do we need to do them? As a starting point in Media we've used a piece of software called Freemind to gather our initial ideas together. It's really easy to use, and when we've finished, we'll be able to save our diagram as a jpeg and upload it to our blogs.

I still need individual blog urls from Corey, Kai, Marley, Ann-Marie, Beth, Rianne and Vanessa, so I can follow them and make comments online as well as in-class.

'DV in a Day' at the BBC

On Thursday 11th September I took the class to White City for their first training in filming and editing.

Everyone bonded together really well in groups to produce some quite credible films for a first attempt. It was a really good way to get to know everyone, as well as build up some important skills on cameras and to have a first go at editing.





























Ebony was really enthusiastic and was the first one to answer questions and get involved. Marley enjoyed the chance to be in front of the camera, but also made some great editing choices. Gina and Cheyenne had a great time and are even more determined to show the world they are very creative people.

We will be coming back to the BBC on November 13th for a more detailed look at editing in a course called 'Editing and Post-Production'.

Well done everyone - you were great representatives for Stoke Newington School and you all learned a lot today.

Lesson 1

Today we met and introduced ourselves to each other. It looks like a really exciting class! The girls are a wide range of interesting people and we have 3 boys.

We also set up our own blogs.

Ebony, Aoife, Kitty, Kianne, Kubra, Farah, Alex, Gina, Cheyenne, Emine and Chan have set theirs up correctly.

Khaleel was absent.

The rest of the class need to show Ms Flavell their blog, give the correct url and explain why they have a different url to what was instructed!

If you've added a post to your blog, you will see I have made a comment.

See you on Tuesday

Step One on the C + M Journey - Starting a Blog

Welcome to the Creative and Media Diploma, with Ms Flavell

I am a Media Teacher at SNS, and together with Mr Cullingford, Ms Cornish and Ms Peddie, I will be teaching this new and exciting course from September 2008.

I will be using this blog to record how the course progresses at key milestones.

I'm really looking forward to creating some exciting work with the very first cohort. In the meantime, here's a taste of some A level Media Coursework from Billie Waller.