FINAL DEADLINE yr12

1. Complete his Music magazine product – front page, contents and double page spread
2. These need to be emailed to me as final products (60%)
3. His blog should be completed showing all stages in the process of production (20%)
4. His evaluation of the final product and process should be recorded on his blog (20%)
a. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
b. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
c. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
d. Who would be the audience for your media product?
e. How did you attract/address your audience?
f. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
g. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I expect all products to have been emailed to me by this Friday, 4/3/11.
Blogs need to be complete for 8/3/11.
Final presentation of products and evaluation will be filmed on 15/3/11.

All media students

Your Blogs need to be updated - this should be a weekly event!!!!!!!!!!!

Y12 - products need to be posted and evaluation / feedback added by 28th February.
y13 - All research and planning should be on your blog now.
- to so list / time line should be posted by now
- production of trailer should be recorded every week
- production of poster in cluding research and planning should be recorded by 28 th Feb

A2 Instructions

As well as application of theroy and responses to yesterday's group interviews, i expect to see:
A to do list
A revised schedule
A shooting schedule

By tomorrow.

Leandro

Does anyone have his blog address?

For AS who can't remeber deadlines!

Production: January 2011, for presentation 4/2/11
1. Create your products using In Design
2. Record – as a diary / blog how you went about completing the task; discuss problems you encountered and how you dealt with them
3. Use an online production site to post your work and collect feedback

Presentation 4th February 2011
4. Present your products to peers / class for evaluation
5. Record the feedback given and how you could use it
6. Record what you have learnt about production, techniques and print media in this task

Its my birthday

and i'll cry if i want to or accept the chocolate you bring in tomorrow....

Calling the AS boys - your turn....

What are the problems associated with the construction of accurate
representations?

Respond to this question with reference to the construction of your Magazine; your represented 'Artist' and the intended Target Audience.

Think theories....Think semiotics.....Think values and beliefs / dominant ideologies.....Think of other limiting factors...politics, economics, social trends....think technology (media Language - Codes, conventions, steriotypes...)

I expect to see some theorising by next Tuesday..
Miss

Calling all A2 students

“Producers exploit audiences’ expectations of genre.” Discuss.

Respond to this in reference to Film trailers / Horror Genre.
Do Producers exploit audience expectation of Genre?
What are the benefits of doing this?
What are the potential risks?

Dont forget your theories........
I think a week to respond is sufficient.

Miss

AS boys

Remeber to use your Blogs as diaries - keep an up to date record of how your work is / is not progressing.
1. What did you do?
2. Why?
3. How?
4. Did it work? Why / why not?
5. What are you going to do now?

Miss

Calling all A2 students

Gents, how much theory are you applying to your blogs?
Audience Theory?
Reception Theory?
Postmodernism? etc....

Dig out your notes, we're going in.
Miss N

production should begin

So you have presented your research and planning. You now need to add / correct whatever was discussed on your blogs before you begin.
Sketches of plan covers need to be scanned
links to example genre tracks need to be posted
interviews to be done on word and handed in for checking before generating in InDesign.
get making

Blame it on the snow!

So i've pushed your deadlines back a week but no further. Blogs to be up to date today!!!!!!
Present design concepts for music magazines on Tuesday 11th January. Consider:
-TA
- GENRE
- CODES AND CONVENTIONS
- PRACTICALITIES: SHOTS, MISE EN SCENE, DEADLINES

presentations of your research and planning

I'm so looking forward to your presentations today. You will be showing me you plans for your music magazines based on your research.
There must be something terribly wrong with your computers at home, though, as not one of you has posted anything on your research or planning - what a coincidence!

You had a deadline - 3rd January and you've all missed it! All entries need to be made by 7th - THIS FRIDAY.

OCR Link

HI

Try out the new Loink to your exam board. excellent materials for revision here, past paers, mark schemes, etc...
Presentations delayed till 9th December thanks to snow...be ready for Thursday.
Miss

Deadlines are looming......
By Friday 30th you must have:
-finished you school magazine, cover and contents pages
- updated your blog with feedback and an evaluation of your product:
-what went well
- what is successful?
- how close was the final product to your original brief?
- how did it change? Why?
- What needs improving?
- What have you learnt?
- How will your approach to your magazine front cover be different?

Then you need to get ready for your presentations: 5 minutes to talk us through the process and product: Preliminary task.

time for production

ok - i've commented on your blogs and said what you need to do. patrick / Chris you need to catch up.
Go back to the W:drive - all of you - look at your next task and deadline

preliminary tasks

So its deadline day for your research and planning - dont forget to update your blog

Teenage Dreams

Don't forget 8th october is your deadline for your first go at In Design - Teenage mag for an ethnic audience.
Miss - keep blogging

Welcome back

So its September again and another set of eager Yr12s are ready to set up their blogs for Media Production - OCR.

Lets remember what you are currently doing:
- Big Brother Essay - deconstructing the title sequence of BB 8: don't forget to look for information on BB, Ch4 and its creators on the net to help. Due: 30th September
- Playing with Adobe: you're creating a front page of a gossip mag / tabloid paper on a scandolous BB story. Use Photoshop and experiment with In Design
- don't forget to cover your books!

These should have been finished 2 weeks ago!!!!!!

Seriously, you must complete all components.
Video should be fixed by Friday.
Send me any new finished products and your powerpoints.

I will take this all off the sytem to mark on April 29th - i cannot accept anything after that.