Checklist for your Photo Shoot

Remember to ask yourself the following questions:

1. What & Who is going to be in my Original Images?
2. Will I be able to take Images for just my Front Cover or Will I be able to take other images for my Double page spread and perhaps the Contents page?
3. Do I need to book or organise possible Location in School?(e.g.Hall, Drama Room) or outside school?
4. We have 3 weeks to complete this task? What plans have you made? (Your Time management will be graded in for your next assignment)

Remember 'Mise en Scene' (Previous Post) including:

• Camera Angle 
• Location 
• Costumes
• Props

Album Cover from Paul McCartney's 'Band on the Run"

And Finally

W/C  25th Nov   3 lessons 

W/C   2nd Dec    2 lessons (London on Wednesday 4th Dec.)

W/C   9th Dec    3 lessons

W/C 16th Dec     Last week before Christmas and Final Assessment Due

Using "mise en scene' to help your Photo shoot

'The OCR Media Studies for AS' (Hodder Education) describes 'Mise en Scene' as follows:

Mise en Scene
This is the  term you will be familiar with when you get stuck into your TV/Radio work. Meaning 'putting in the scene') it describes all the creative choices made by photographers, designers, and directors when creating an authentic atmosphere. For still images, this is partly constructed at the photography stage and partly through editing. You need to make clear creative decisions about:

• Lighting (trial and error is the best way of getting it exactly right)
• Costume
• Appearance
• Props for shot
• Background imagery
• Colour

Add Camera angle to the list above and you have a clear process to achieve the best original image(s) for your Music Magazine.
Task
Clearly research Style models to focus the type of shots you want to take and then apply the elements of 'miss en scene' for each shot.
i.e Explain why you have chosen particular: Costume, Location, Camera angle etc. (These are the creative choices that you make)

Post your decisions on the your blog

Here is another useful link regarding miss en scene
http://www.elementsofcinema.com/directing/mise-en-scene.html

Preparing for your Main Task.

Once that you have finished your powerpoint presentation you need to focus your attention onto our main task.

Here is a reminder of your AS coursework brief.

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.

And here are the 7 questions for our evaluation (worth 20 Marks)

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?

Consider the  magazines that we have researched. What is the audience for your music magazine.?
Look at a similar real media ' (Similar = Like the Magazine you are about to construct) Music Magazine (e.g. Q, Kerrang, Blender, NME, Mojo, Classic Rock, Top of the Pops etc)

Task 1 (Please post all your findings on your Blog)
Research the following:

1. Age of Target Audience
2. Gender
3. Social Group
4. Distribution or Readership
5. Genre of Music
6. Types of Artists/Bands that would appear in this Mag

Task 2 (Please post all your findings on your Blog)
Present a profile for a typical reader of your magazine

1. Give the person a name
2. Age (within the target group age range)
3. Hobbies
4. Favourite films
5. TV programmes
6. Music Tastes
7. Fashion style
8. Likes/dislikes
9. Employment status if applicable

Your magazine should try to attract the audience by promoting/appealing to this audience profile.

Audience Profile Research

Q Audience details

NME IPC media

abc1demographic.co.uk

5 posts to support your presentations

Remember at least 5 additional Posts to support your Conventions Presentation
Here are some suggestions:

Post 1. Title: Conventions Research
Examples of Magazines that you have researched. Provide Images and Examples of the Magazine.

Post 2 & 3: Title Reasearch Findings 1 & 2
List some of the conventions. Use Some Screen shots to demonstrate some of the key conventions. (No need to Use images for all Conventions -be selective)

Post 4 Title: Challenging Conventions.
Any Key conventions (Masthead- Pricing/Barcode- Image - Cover Lines - Banners etc) left out from your examples of Magazine Covers. if so can you think Why

Post 5. Title: The Generic Conventions of a Music Magazine Cover
Upload your Powerpoint using using SlideShare or SlideBoom

The lists above are for your guidance -You could and should add more Posts to your blog. Remember to use 'Links', 'Images', YOUTube clips etc where appropriate to enhance your posts