Todays Notes

Work you must complete

Our 7 Question Evaluation will need to be presented in a variety of Digital Media formats:

This week could you please sign up (Free Accounts) for the following:

Reminder

On your blogs evidence 

Examples of your Research 

• Using Google or Preferred search engines
• Upload  MCU examples for Accuracy for your photo shoot
• Upload pictures from School Magazine as examples.

Tomorrow Evidence of Planning

• Groups 
• Sketch plan for your Cover
• Decide Location
• Actors
• Props
• Costume
• Camera Angle
• Apply Rule of Thirds

Footnotes

Work last week

Sign up to the following 

1 Blogspot account using google login. Please sign in using the following unique address. http://asmediayourname.blogspot.com. 

2 Prezi account 

3 Slideshare

Key Web Addresses

OCR

http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/

Mike Liddell

http://oamedia.blogspot.com/

Thanks Mr Liddell 17th September 2015

Your Brief and Evaluation Questions

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Coursework Brief

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, 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. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

In the evaluation the following seven questions must be addressed:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? 
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 
4. Who would be the audience for your media product? 
5. How did you attract/address your audience? 
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Pre-liminary Task

Research & Provide a handwritten draft for your School Magazine Cover. (I will scan this to up-load for your Blog)
Plan your Front cover shot for your magazine

Consider

1. Who?
2. Where?
3. What are you telling the Audience about the School (Symbols & Codes)?
4. Have you sort permissions (Actors & Location)?
5. Remember our Analysis of Shot Composition (Ref: Rule of Thirds)

Always Post your Findings on your Blog

Welcome to Media Studies with Mr Liddell & Mr Natton - Class of 2015/16

Delighted to have you all studying Media Studies at AS level
This first post will provide information from your initial lessons.

Here are two essential links:
This link will provide excellent resources from the OCR exam board. You can compare your work to examples top level 4 work

http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com

Make sure you have my Blogger address. This will enable you my access work 24/7 and resources

http://oamedia.blogspot.co.uk

I will post this weeks tasks later this week.

Really hope you enjoy working with me
Good luck
Mr Liddell

Blogs to help you with your Evaluations

http://oasamyfrancom.blogspot.com

http://oaschloefrancom.blogspot.com

http://oasjasonsmith.blogspot.com

http://oasrhyairwin.blogspot.com

http://oaskylehughes.blogspot.com

http://oafreefenlon.blogspot.com

http://oakateblake.blogspot.com

http://allywylde.blogspot.com

A reminder of the & evaluation Questions

In the evaluation the following seven questions must be addressed:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?  
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?  
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?  
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?  
5. How did you attract/address your audience?  
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?  
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Remember this???

Check this link:

Conventions Video


Your First task is to understand the Conventions of a Music Magazine.
Look at the style in the examples below.
You must present the work in a similar style to the example below. This is an AS example and the process if appropriate - I think more technical media language would enhance this work

THE CONVENTIONS OF A MUSIC MAGAZINE.

This a good starting point to question 1 in your evaluation