Holidays Tasks

You are expected to have finished everything and blogged it up to date (see my last post with progress check spreadsheet). This includes: Your Brand Identity post; Audience Questionnaire with results and analysis; Reflection on your findings; Magazine Layouts; Hand drawn design (try to include more than one idea - up to three). You can find A* examples of all tasks on the blog link below.

Holiday Task 1:  http://hannahmelia1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/photo-planning.html Complete your photography planning for your front page. You should now know what your main image will be. See the A* exemplar to show you what is expected from this post:

• Photo planning
• Moodboard
• Schedule

Holiday Task 2: Take your photographs (using a camera rather than an iPhone - the quality needs to be excellent to secure the best production mark possible). Upload these to Flickr and blog the link. You must have these in our next lesson. 

Optional Task: Do a first mock up on Fireworks of your music magazine (try to ensure there are some things you intend to change to show progress as you make your production piece). 

All of this is due in our first lesson back: Wednesday 14th January. 

Merry Christmas and good luck with your mock exams! 

Progress Check 17/12/14

Progress Update 19/12/14 Well done to those of you who have made progress this week! :) 

You are getting close to the production elements of your coursework but must  have completed your research and planning (worth 20 marks) beforehand!

What are you missing?

Some people are completing extension tasks because they have finished everything and are up to date. The following people have yellow cards for work that is still incomplete (some of this spans back as far as 3-4 weeks!): Manpreet, Jordan, Tom and Marcus. 

Cover work 09/12/14

1) Please ensure that all work is complete and on your blog, including your homework (layout ideas - see the previous blog post).

2) Create a hand drawn mock up of your magazine front page (on A4 plain paper) for next lesson *I don't see you next lesson due to Senior Citizen's Party.* Upload this to your blog when complete.

Magazine Layouts

http://hannahmelia1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/layouts-for-my-front-cover.html

You are going to experiment with different layout using your research to inform different designs. What are the conventions of layout and design? How will you place the features of your front cover?

Produce 6 alternative layouts for your new music magazine. Due: Tuesday 9th December. 

Audience Questionnaire

Use https://www.surveymonkey.com/ to create a questionnaire about your target audience. Look at the example questions from the A* example but make sure you don't just copy them!

http://hannahmelia1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/questionnaire.html

Magazine Brand Identity

Brand Identity Article

Read the article above and then produce a scribd. document using the five headings to comment on how you will approach Brand Identity for your production. What are your initial thoughts about the cover; the contents; your audience etc.

Classwork Reminder 19/11/14

Afternoon all! Just a quick reminder about the blog post below (continuation of work from last lesson). You are creating a 'Genre Research' Prezi for your chosen music magazine genre. Remember to link you ideas to theories. We will discuss industry next lesson. See you on Friday to upload these onto your blogs.

Genre Research

Exemplar: http://hannahmelia1.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/research-analysis-into-kerrang.html

Create a Prezi investigating a magazine from your chosen music genre.

You need to include the following:

• Analysis of front page

• Analysis of contents page

• Analysis of double page spread

• Links to all key concepts

Magazine Masthead Research

Are you keeping up with the demands of your coursework?

I will be coming round to speak to you individually today with the spreadsheet to monitor your progress. Last lesson you needed to complete the red and amber tasks: research into existing magazine mastheads from your chosen genre.

If you have not yet completed the research, you are falling behind and need to catch up.

Magazine Analysis Coursework Homework

You have started your textual analysis in lesson and know the area/ target for improvement. 

Homework: Complete your magazine analysis considering - the main image, anchorage text, coverlines, plugs/ puffs. DEADLINE: Friday 7th November (on your blog!)

Final Blog Update

Well done on the excellent progress you have made with your blogs in the last 48 hours. You can see this individually below.

Green cards for: Chelsea A, Manpreet, Rachael, Chelsea B, Lucy, James, Elizah, Danielle, Tom and Marcus.

Keep these up to day to avoid any more red marks please!

Evaluation/ Reflection

When you have finished your draft - write answers to the following questions on your blog to evaluate/ reflect on your production. 

1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (what have you included that we would expect to see on a magazine front cover?)

2.How does your media product represent particular social groups? (Most of you have a picture of students – how are they presented?)

3.Who would be the audience for your media product?

4.How did you attract/address your audience? (What have you done that would make school students buy your magazine?)

Audience Feedback Homework

Audience Feedback

Homework:

Ask 3 people the following questions:

1.What do you think of my school magazine front cover draft?

2.How could I improve it to make it look more professional?

3.Which part of the magazine do you like the most and why?

4. If the magazine was on sale in school, would you buy it?

5.How effective do you think the main image and masthead are?

Video their responses and upload them onto your blog for Tuesday 21st October.

Your blogs to date...

Below is the progress tracker for your blogs so far. Well done to Chelsea A, Chelsea B, Katrina, Elizah, Tom and Marcus for making such an excellent start to your blogging. 

If you are missing things from your blog and are not sure what your blog should look like at the moment, go onto my blog and have a look at one of the above named student's blogs using the links on the right hand side. All blogs need to be up to standard by Friday 17th October. 

Checklist so far...

PIECE OF WORK FOR COURSEWORK
Key Concept classwork
Analysis of music magazine mastheads
Magazine Analysis - Basline Assessment
Baseline Assessment Feedback
Thinglink Magazine Analysis
Reflection on new technologies - write up
Shot Types
Photos linked on flickr account
School magazine front cover sketches

This is your checklist so far... Have you uploaded all of these? When you have, copy this list and give them a tick if they're complete!

Adding my blog to yours

Well done for finding my blog successfully! You now need to add a gadget to your blog, so you can access mine with ease: mrsmitchellasfoundationportfolio.blogspot.co.uk.

If you get stuck use this helpful guide: http://google.about.com/od/googleblogging/ss/bloggergadget_2.htm

Photography

Some notes on photography for you if you missed the lesson last week...

Post your photos on flickr

You should have set up a flickr account. Spend some time posting the photos you have taken in lesson on here. If you have a lot, choose the highlights.

Hopefully, by now, your blogs are up and running! You need to add a gadget on your blogs so that you have a hyperlink to mine. Use this link to help if you are unsure:  http://google.about.com/od/googleblogging/ss/bloggergadget_2.htm