Friday, 25 September 2015

Examples of Written drafts to support your Pre Lim Photshoot

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)? (I will give you a copy of this in Tuesday's lesson)
  5. Remember our Analysis of Shot Composition (Ref: Rule of Thirds)
Always Post your Findings on your Blog




MCU TEXT
Basic Art work to guide your shot composition 

Masthead plus MCU
Rule of Thirds? Text ?






This will be a process to Repeat when we plan our Music Magazine

Some blogs from previous years Media Coursework



To help your preparation - have a look at the Sept & October posts from these blogs.
They may give you some inspiration for your Pre Lim shots

Amy Francom.  Candidate no: 8042
http://oasamyfrancom.blogspot.com
Chloe Francom. Candidate no: 8041
http://oaschloefrancom.blogspot.com
Kayleigh Allen.  Candidate no: 8001
http://oaskayleighallen.blogspot.com
Jason Smith.  Candidate no: 8112
Chereece Skeete.  Candidate no: 8108
Rhya Irwin.  Candidate no: 8060
Kyle Hughes.  Candidate no: 8058
Terri-Louise Gray.  Candidate no: 8047
Alex Wylde.  Candidate no: 9061




Thursday, 24 September 2015

Year 12 Blog posts

Adam 
asmediaadamduffy.blogspot.com
Danny
asmediadannyprobbing.blogspot.com
Charlotte
asmediacharlotteyardley.blogspot.com
Holly
ashollyhulse.blogspot.com
Erin C
erincubbin.blogspot.com
Kyle
oaskyledossantos.blogspot.com
Jordan
oasmediajordanlloyd.blogspot.com
Tom
asmediatombirtles.blogspot.com
Erin E
asmediaevanser.blogspot.com
Megan
asmediaslaterme.blogspot.com
Jake
asmediajakenavarro.blogspot.com
Brad
oasmediabradleybarker.blogspot.com
Rachel
asmediarachelallen.blogspot.com
Ellie
asmediaelliedean.blogspot.com
Kate
asmediakateskeggs.blogspot.com
Abbi
oasmediaabbiharper.blogspot.com
Kyle
asmediakylethory.blogspot.com
Jamie
asmediajamiepears.blogspot.com
Macorley
asmediamacorleyharrison.blogspot.com
Bailey
asmediabaileyrobinson.blogspot.com
Zhongwei
asmediazhongweizhao.blogspot.com

Assessment for Tomorrow

Mr Natton and I will be completing and entering your first assessment grades tomorrow morning at 7.15. (This allows maximum time for you all to complete your assessment tasks.

  1. I will be giving you a A-E A level grade to reflect your work with me. Please make sure that you have given me your blogger address by the end of the lesson as I will be accessing your Blogs to grade your work. n.b. All 4 Posts must be in place
  2. Mr Natton & I will be assessing your 1-4 grade for your commitment to work in theory & coursework lessons this term. Please make sure all H/W has been handed in to Mr Natton as a failure to do so will result in 3/4 grade which will have implications on future Bursary awards. Any doubts please see Mr Natton before the end of the day

Thanks

  • If your blog is complete - we are going to plan our photos today
  • Time Management: Photos to be completed by next Thursdays lessons. Camera's will be available from Today's lesson for small groups to plan.


You must:

  • Provide a Hand Drawn rough draft of your Front Cover (I will scan this to upload onto your blog)
  • Take suitable pictures referring to the Mis en Scene on Blog 3 and include additional pics for Contents draft.


  • Once completed we will select the most suitable images for your Pre-lim take & blog the selection process.
  • Once selected we will use ADOBE photoshop to manipulate the images

Thanks

Monday, 21 September 2015

Blogger Assessment

Task today

After signing up for Blogger add these posts to your blog:
Post 1
Use Google or your preferred each engine to find examples of a MCU shot for your Per-lim task' 
See below:
Title the Post: Examples of Medium Close up Shots






Blog 2

Google search for Research.
Research & Upload at least 3 examples of your Style Model e.g. School Magazine Covers.







Blog 3
Blog the preparation work that you did on Friday.

Use these heading in your post

Mise en Scene:
Then subtitle with the following:
  • Location - Describe where you have chosen to take your shot and why
  • Actors - Explain your choice. Do you need permission(s)? Are you clear who your models are? What they are wearing?

  • Camera Shot: MCU any variations?
  • Costumes: You must explain your decision - Uniform or Casual? Why?
  • Props: What do they say to the audience?
  • Narrative: What Story About the Academy/School are you intending to tell to your audience?
  • Using your research of School Magazine Style models & your draft art-work designs - decide the location for your shots (to be taken on Wednesday Period 1)
Blog 4
Make sure my blog & OCR Weebly Address are listed on a separate blog. 

OCR

Mike Liddell
http://oamedia.blogspot.com/

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The First 4 blogs will be the basis of your initial Assessment

Please make sure that you have given me your blog address as I will be submitting grades with Mr Natton on Friday.


You can complete this work today, on Macs or Microsoft Computers, Tablets, Phones, Laptops in lessons, study time, home 24/7

Good Luck
Later this week.
Thursday & Friday


  1. Sketch Front cover - Scan & Upload
  2. Organise Photo shoot & take pics (including additional shots for your Contents page)


Thursday, 17 September 2015

Rule of Thirds - Shot composition


Use this link below to consider and analyse the Pre-lim shots that you have composed this week?
A useful link:

Rule of Thirds - Shot Composition

And a link focussing on rule of thirds application for photography

Photo Composition


Post on your Blog how you might improve your shots for you School/College magazine.
Consider:

  1. Are you Accurate? Is it realy a medium close up shot?
  2. What do the image tell the audience?

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

Mike Liddell


Thanks Mr Liddell 17th September 2015

Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Your Brief and Evaluation Questions


Print 

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

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



I will post this weeks tasks later this week.


Really hope you enjoy working with me
Good luck
Mr Liddell