How your blog should look

• Can you read it clearly? the examiner has to be able to read it easily as he/she is the one marking it.
• Make sure the colours do not clash or merge together
• Is the layout clear and easy to navigate through
• Have you organised your pages
• Are the list of students and pages on the right hand side?
• Is the font a good size
• Are the images clear and a good size
• Make sure you have labelled titles of post and pages.

Over the Christmas break

Things you MUST do: MAKE YOUR BLOG AESTHETICALLY PLEASING (LOOK GOOD)

1. Make sure that your blog is up to date and organised into pages
2. You can go onto YouTube and look at tutorials on how to set up a blog.
3. YOU MUST ORGANISE YOUR BLOG so that the examiner can clearly find your work. Please see example: http://bethurwin.blogspot.co.uk/ or http://susannaquinn.blogspot.co.uk/p/magazines-pages-before-feedback.html

Video blogs: http://thrillerblog2011.blogspot.co.uk/ or http://snehalsthrillerblog.blogspot.co.uk/
Have a look over these blogs, are you missing any information that they have?
4. All draft work must be compete and uploaded.
5. Use scribd (link on blog, you will need to set up an account) to upload PowerPoint's or word docs.
6. All photographs must be taken over Christmas.

How to use the blog: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFqtlImXqVY

Magazine:
When you come back you must be ready to create your magazine using Photoshop or InDesign
Video:
Be ready to start filming

OCR

http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/as-inset-materials.html

Click on the link to view the blogs.

Scribd

http://www.scribd.com/

 

Click on this link to upload PowerPoint, images or Word documents. You will need to set up an account on scribd.

1. Set up account
2. Upload
3. Copy the embed code
4. Paste into a new post on blogger - Make sure it is set to html not compose
5. Publish

Home Work: Due 4th December

Complete magazine draft front cover and contents page.

Complete script and storyboard for your opening sequence

Home Learning: Due Tuesday 27th Nov

Peer assess at least two blogs

Sedi/ Eve - Daisy/ Rochelle / Os
Josh/ Georgia - Andrew/ Lyle
Tabitha/ Lyle - Lola/ Stacey/ Michael 
Paige/ Neil - Loren / Eve
Dimitri/ Matty - Simon/ Ben

If i have missed your name off please pick a blog to assess. If people have not uploaded their work onto their blog then choose another person to assess. 

Look at the front cover, contents page and double page spread. Or look at the opening sequence. 

Make sure you post a comment in the comment box on the blog!

What went well: 

1. Have they used media terminology? 
2. Have they analysed all three texts (front cover, contents page and double page spread) effectively? 
3. Is it well written and clear (free from error)?

Even better if?

1. Could they have used more media terminology?
2. How could they have improved their writing? (spelling, proof reading, grammar, sentence structure)
3. What could they include in their research? 

Analyse results

Once you have completed your questionnaire and have all of your results, you will then need to analyse your results.

•What did you find out?

•How will you create your magazine?

•How will your media product represent different social groups?

•What type of media institution will distribute your product?

•Identify the audience for your media product.

•How will you attract your audience?

Questionnaire and planning

Once you have a focus for your magazine or opening sequence.

• Create a questionnaire using survey monkey www.surveymonkey.com/
• Minimum of ten questions

You need to find out how to target your audience and how best to create your magazine. 

• What types of questions might you ask?

Once you have completed your questionnaire and have all of your results, you will then need to analyse your results.

•What did you find out?

•How will you create your magazine?

•How will your media product represent different social groups?

•What type of media institution will distribute your product?

•Identify the audience for your media product.

•How will you attract your audience?

 

H/L Due Thursday 15/11

Complete all questions on the blog

HW Due: Tuesday 13/11

Magazine: All front covers must be completed and one article or double page spread. (Q1 and Q2)

Video: All opening sequences must be analysed and one narrative (Q1 and Q2) 

You will need to begin researching – everything you look at needs to be logged on your blog. Video clips, articles, magazine covers etc. Say what you like about them, don’t just stick them on your blog. Is there anything you would take? Use media terminology.

Your production needs to be well planned – make sure you consider your target audience.

Primary research: What is primary research?

Secondary research: What is this?

You will need to conduct primary and secondary research as part of your planning before you begin.

Research Questions: Tuesday 6/11

TASK:

1.Find a minimum of three music magazine covers or opening sequences that have visual appeal (Youtube)

Magazine:

What colours have they used and how do they appeal to you?

What images have been used and what do you like about them?

Does the style appeal to you?

Does the magazine draw you in? what feature do this?

Who is the target audience and how does it speak to the reader?

2.Find three articles (double page spread) OR a scene with dialogue and soundtrack on a topic that may have relevance to what you want to produce

What interests you about the article? Style/layout? Content? Story?

How does the story appeal to the target audience?

What would you take from this article and apply to your own double page spread?

3.Find three contents pages OR title sequence that you like the style of.

Answer the same questions about the contents pages as above

Video:

1.Find a minimum of three music magazine covers or opening sequences that have visual appeal (Youtube)

• How does the opening sequence draw you in?
• What shot types are used? How do they create meaning in the sequence?
• What style of lighting is used?
• What is the film genre?
• Who is the target audience? How do you know this?

2.Find three articles (double page spread) OR a scene with dialogue and soundtrack on a topic that may have relevance to what you want to produce

• What is the genre?
• What does the narrative tell you about what is going to happen?
• What dialogue is being used?
• Identify the soundtrack/sound effects and how it creates meaning in the scene
• 3.Find three contents pages OR title sequence that you like the style of.

What style of titles sequence has been used?

What appeals to you about it?

Does it also use images? 

Magazine Cover Analysis

Preliminary Coursework task

Print – Produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student  in medium close up, plus some appropriately laid out text and a masthead. Also, a mock up of the contents page.

Create a hand drawn draft and then a final mock up using Photoshop.

Video -  Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule

Coursework

AS G321 Foundation Portfolio
Assessment objectives: AO2, AO3, AO4

•Print – Front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine – minimum of 4 images

•Video – Create the opening to a new fiction film with opening credits to last a maximum of 2 minutes.

•Individual projects

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