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Presentation 29^th February 2012

1.    Present your products to peers / class for evaluation

2.    Record the feedback given and how you could use it

3.    Record what you have learnt about production, techniques and print media in this task

Evaluation 20%

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

4.    • In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

5.    • How does your media product represent particular social groups?

6.    • What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

7.    • Who would be the audience for your media product?

8.    • How did you attract/address your audience?

9.    • What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

10.  • Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

11. Submit your products and records                                                               Due 08/3/12

When was the last time you updated your blog?

Remember your blog is your electronic record of the provess you are undertaking.

Each time you have worked  on your product you should be recording:

1. What was your original aim - what did you plan to achieve in this session?
2. What did you do?
3. How did you do it?
4. What problems did you encounter?
5. How / did you solve them?
6. What do you intend to do next?

I will be checking on Friday 3rd February.

Miss

PS  If you have any of your CWS work in this Blog move it to a subsidury blog - ask me if this is confusing.

PlANNING TIME

To do:

• using the coursework brief (Student Drive: Media: As: Portfolio) design a time line for your production.  Working back from the deadline (using a calendar) work out your production schedule.
• Equipment:  What resources do you need to complete this brief?
• Shooting:  Who is your model?  Where will you shoot?  When?  Costume? props? Lights?
• Frontcover:  What will it look like?  Fonts, colours, text, images?  Sketch and a#scan your design ideas
• Content / Double page (as above)

Lots to do - and lets not forget your new Monday p5 lesson.

Miss

Thanks for your powerpoints

But what do you have to do now?

PPs need to be improved: upload PP to Blog

• Define your Genre in detail, add example artists / tract / links to You Tube / Amazon
• Define your TA in more detail - look at the representation within the magazine: Age; Sex; Gender; Race; religion; socio-economic status; lewvel of education; beliefs....
• Annotate one front cover using technical vocabulary; identify the features all music mags have in common (codes and conventions)
• Create a 'Top Tips' - what to do list for all those wanting to make a music magazine
• Explain what you intend to do as a result of your research - Your Plan

When? By 27th January 2012

Monday 23rd - Start making.

So you didn't like the homework?

New Deadlines:

Complete research by 13th - look back at other Blogs / Student common room

• Complete PP presentation of your research
• Include: analysis / deconstruction of a minimum of 3 music magazines
• Identify target audience based on codes and conventions of the magazines
• identify genre based on codes and conventions
• what ideologies / beliefs are promoted by the magazine?
• how is advertising used on front cover

Deadline:18th January

Complete the planning sheet on the student commonromm for 20th january - upload / post to your blogs with the powerpoint.

Enjoy

Xmas Homework

Research: 10/11^th December to end of term

1.    Collect some evidence of current music magazines: NME, Kerrang, Q

2.    Analyse how they construct meaning for their audience – Front page, contents, double page spreads

3.    Establish a set of rules (codes and conventions they use) / guide to creating a effective music magazine – for each page

4.    Keep a record of your research

Planning: Xmas holidays, for presentation to class 9^th January 2012

5.    Decide what type of music magazine you are going to design – what is the purpose of your magazine?

6.    Decide who is the audience (who is it aimed at?) – this will affect your design

7.    Draft sketch what you want on your front cover: colour, images, title, text, etc. – explain why (follow your rules)

8.    Draft ideal contents

9.    Photograph appropriate images for each page: stage a band / artist – consider locations, costume, props, makeup

10. Draft interview for double page spread – consider language used appropriate to genre and audience

11. Keep a record of your planning

Production: January 2012, for presentation 4/2/12

12.  Create your products using In Design

13. Record – as a diary / blog how you went about completing the task; discuss problems you encountered and how you dealt with them

14. Use an online production site to post your work and collect feedback

Enjoy!