“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today’s movies. They believe everything they’re hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”
Christopher Nolan
Autumn Celebrations Competition Winners 2024
I am pleased to announce the Autumn Art Competition winners 2024, chosen from a wide variety of entries from across […]
Seven Days Of Stone – an animated Doctor Who epic
I’m very pleased to be able to share a fantastic new animation created by Jamie Johnson of EyeStalk Studios ( […]
A Glimpse into the Revamped National Portrait Gallery: A ‘Must’ visit for all Visual Arts students
One of my favourite London gallery locations has just received a well overdue makeover as the newly updated National Portrait […]
The 2023 Outstanding Achievement award in Visual Arts – awarded to Freddie Baldwin
This year the accomplished recipient of the much coveted Outstanding Achievement award in Visual Arts goes to sixth form film […]
BTEC Media Component 1 assessment – A More House Guide.
Year 10 Media students will soon be undertaking their long Component 1 Supervised assessment in later this month. This is […]
A Visit to The Horror Show Exhibition at Somerset House
An exhibition review by Mr Aldred. The Horror Show is an Art , Film & Fashion exhibition i’d been ‘dying’ […]
Year 11 Media Adverts – Pop Chocs!
As the final outcome for our BTEC Media unit about digital moving images we create an advert for a fictional […]
Laura Mulvey and The Male Gaze theory
In level 3 BTEC Media we learn several critical theories used in the analysis of film, television and other media. […]
Slight Change of Plan – BTEC level 3 Media dramatic short film
Henry Kennard submitted this short dramatic film – loosely influenced by the dramatic comedy coming of age films by Paul […]
Sixth Form Photography & Media visit London’s South bank
Deciding to take advantage of the summer sun the students in Sixth Photography and Media decided to undertake a practical […]
Hayden Bishop – Media graduate, now Camera operator
Hayden left More House school in 2020 and quickly decided he wanted to develop his passion for video production that […]
Naughty List – a Creepy Christmas short film By Freddie Baldwin
Produced as part of his first unit in Level 3 BTEC Media, Naughty list is a short 7 minute film […]
Greed on Screen – a Video essay by Henry Kennard
As part of his BTEC Level 3 unit about Fictional Films, Henry wrote and narrated a lengthy and informative video […]
The 2021 Arts Prize – Awarded to Thomas Woods
This year we are very pleased to announce the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Visual Arts award goes to […]
BTEC Level 3 Media short film – The Gallery
Written, designed and directed by Thomas Woods in year 12 , The Gallery is a short film created to give […]
The Arts Prize Spring/Summer 2021
I am pleased to share details of our latest Arts Prize – an art competition open to all students and […]
Year 11 and 12 Media Students – Film making whilst in Lock Down
It was important for our media students to continue to develop their practical filming techniques whilst under lock down – […]
Planning & Pitching a new TV Channel – by Josh Pugh
One of our final Year 11 projects in Media is to plan and pitch a new TV Channel – this […]
Making a Factual Documentary in Level 3 BTEC Media
Sixth form student Seb Jennings created a fascinating and detailed look at the subject of Border Morris Dancing as part […]
Your First day on a Film Set -without leaving home (or school!)
ScreenSkills is a fantastic British organisation backed by the industry to help support, grow and train people in the British […]
The Visual Arts Award for 2020 – presented to Eli Brozenich
Despite enduring all of the pitfalls and challenges that 2020 had to offer we in the Visual Arts faculty were […]
Affinity Designer Basics – a simple magazine layout.
The first unit we tackle in Year 10 Creative Media is Digital Publishing. This includes learning how to use Affinity […]
Creating a basic Digital Movie Poster – in Powerpoint!
This series of tutorials is all about putting together a simple idea for a movie poster – first drawn out […]
Trainspotting – a review by Lucas O’ Connor
Trainspotting was directed by Danny Boyle. It stars Ewan McGregor, Johnny Lee-Miller, Robert Carlyle and Ewen Bremner. Trainspotting follows Renton […]
Troll 2 – The best WORST movie?
As part of our studies into film production we watch several documentaries – such as Lost in La Mancha and […]
Level 3 Media Exam – Media Representations
The exam for BTEC Level 3 Media students takes place in Year 13, and is screen-based. It focusses on teh […]
Parasite – a review by Lucas O’ Connor
Parasite was written and directed by Bong Joon – Ho. Parasite follows a poor Korean family, the Kims, who begin […]
Media Keywords
Courtesy of the great website Media Knowall here is a keyword list of useful media terms: AUDIENCE – The recipients of […]
Paper Model Building
Even though we rely on computers a lot to design film and television sets, there is still a need to […]
Watching Visual Arts – documentaries you can view at home.
I wanted to curate a list of relevant and engaging documentaries about Art -mainly for our sixth form – but […]
Real life on film. Year 13 factual programming videos.
Many year 13 students were right in the middle of filming and editing their short documentary films for the Factual […]
Video editing at home – for free with Lightworks
We are always on the lookout for new, and free video editing options – especially for PC. Mac users are […]
Happy May 4th! and we celebrate with two Star Wars reviews by Lucas.
May 4th be with you! And to enjoy this galactic moment whilst we self-isolate I have two more fantastic film […]
Why choose a Visual Art option?
For our Year 8 and 9 students it can often be a confusing time deciding which option subjects to take […]
Get creative online – free art apps on the web
In this moment of Social Distancing we are very reliant on our comuters to remain productive, and creative – and […]
Smart Sci-Fi – Science Fiction movies to make you think…on Netflix
We continue to binge watch Netflix as the social distancing continues – and as we hear the daily news it […]
Netflix Films – You can ESCAPE into…
Netflix is an amazing service that can kill boredom with a single swipe of the TV remote – however we’re […]
The Horror Collection
Social Distancing means we have a lot of free time on our hands, and eventually we may struggle to find […]
Gary Brozenich – A careers talk by a VFX Supervisor
A Careers talk by Gary Brozenich At the end of January the senior school were very lucky to have Gary […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – review by Lucas )'Connor
Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker was directed by JJ Abrams. It stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Issac, Adam Driver, Billy Dee-Williams and […]
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