Your portfolios

You should have:
- added evidence of your research and explained how it informed your planning
- evidence of planning
- step guide / diary of the creation of your music products, with evidence of
development
- posted your products
- evaluated your products, specifically addressing the 8 key questions from exam
board:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
- you should also have given feedback to at least 2 other people in this group and collected your own feedback

if you have not done the above then this is what we are using this week for - get blogging.

Miss

Deadline is 11/2/10

Gents finished products must be sent to me for assessment.

All blogs must be updated and complete by 22/2/10 - all evaluation questions must be answered. (Check the brief doc on W Drive)

A filmed presentation of your products and evaluation will take place after half term - get ahead of yourself and start preparing the slide show and post to your blog.

Miss

Presentation Day

Join me in A4 where we will be viewing the Products created by this year's Yr12 Candidates. they will be presenting their Music magazine products - discussing their concepts, ideas, process and products.

After today they have a week to complete their Products - make any sugested alterations.
They will also need to complete their evaluations and update their Blogs. All must be handed in on the 11th.

After halfterm there will be a further filmed presentation of final products and evaluations which will be posted on their Blogs for everyone to comment on.

I'm talking to your parents!

I'm reviewing your blogs this week and reporting home....get blogging! Miss

Music Magazine Production

Well boys you are behind on your deadlines.

You started today interviewing each other on your plans for this product.
What are you planning to do?
Who are you targetting? Primary target audience needs to be clearly identified in detail.
What genre of music are you creating the magazine for?
What is your concept for this issue?
Are you present a solo artist or band?
What are your colour themes - explain choices (semiotics)
What images / shots do you intend to use? Why?
How will you create these shots?
What will be in your double-page spread?

I remind you your research and planning stages on your blog should be complete.
You should be posting comments on other's work via their blogs too.
You will need to explain what feedback you were given on your ideas.

Look at the dealine... products to be presented to class on 4/2/10 (2 weeks!)

getting concerned

Gents by now you should all have:
- Completed your preliminary task: research, planning, production and evaluation
- your products should be posted
- you should have commented on the product / and evaluation of at least 2 others
in our group
Your blogs need updating!

presentation, feedback and evaluation of your preliminary tasks

You should have finished your preliminary task today, your school magazine designs for front cover and contents. This is what you need to do now:
- Annotate you finished work (transfer it to Word, or similar)
- explain what you were trying to achieve
- highlight your strengths - What went well? What went to plan?
- What was deliberate? What coincidence?
- Where are your weaknesses? What were the problems?
- What had you intended to do? Why did it not work?
- Compare your work to the standard OCR example (On W:Drive)
- How does your's compare?
- What have you learnt about Media production as a result of this process?
- What have you learnt about the task and the way you work?
- How will you change the way you approach the main task?
- What lessons have you learnt?

Post your productions, your annotations and evaluations.
Alow for comments from others on your work, evaluations and respond.
compare your work to your classmates.

Miss