IMPROVING YOUR BLOGS

ARCHIVE FOR THE ‘TV DRAMA’ CATEGORY

Improving your blogs

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You will need to make sure that your blog has a clear THEME — make it personal and relevant to Media.

Key things to learn and discuss:

• What is the dashboard and how do I use it?

• What are the blog stats?

• How are comments used and what is the use of them?

CATEGORIES: these are the chapters of your blog, the main way that you will find useful information so you HAVE TO HAVE good CATEGORIES - see the main list I handed out on day 1 - it is on the wall in S9. 

The main categories are COURSEWORK, sub-category PRELIM and MAIN TASK, and then Mrs McDonald-Holmes (Master Blog), EXAM, sub-categories: TV  DRAMA, and AUDIENCES AND INSTITUTIONS.

EVERYTHING NEEDS A CATEGORY:

• How do I make a good post, using Tags and Categories? How do you create a TAG and CATEGORY cloud?

• How do I upload images, podcasts and video straight onto my blog?

• You need to show your skills off that you know how to design a blog.

• How do I make links between various websites and categorise them?  

• How do I add Widgets and Themes?

• How do I make a new Header and Background?

• How do I embed links between websites?

• How do I add Twitter, FaceBook and Tumblr buttons to share my posts with everyone?

PLEASE NOTE: Make sure that your THEME actually shows your WHOLE blog post. You will need to check this by trialling your THEME. If it does not, then you MUST change the THEME. Or go to SETTINGS, READING and make sure that “For each article in a feed, show”. Full text.

OTHER KEY AREAS: You need to have a YouTube account, Gmail account, you need a decent sized USB or Memory Card. If there are financial issues, you need to discuss with us.

Monies due in for BBC Media Trip

Monies due in for BBC Media Trip before this Friday

Text Wrap Ideas InDesign Tutorials

Powerful, Text Portrait Poster - Front Cover



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj_iwNgv8aQ

How to wrap text around a graphic - great for Double page spread


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoPuwLpk1TI

Simple text wrap around graphic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL0Z-AQconQ

Filling a shape with text


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervZqx2N-8c

Thank you to the student who are keeping up to date.

For some of you there is still outstanding work to be completed and posted.

Today I had to adapt the lesson as half the group did not do the homework set.

It is imperative that you complete all homework.

As we discussed in lesson you will need to do the following and bring in for Tuesday lesson:

1. 2 x hand drawn thumbnails for New music Mag Cover

2. 2 x  hand drawn thumbnails for Contents page

3. 2 x hand drawn thumbnails for Double Page Spread (DPS)

4. New Title (name of music mag) with examples using various fonts.

5. Typed up text ready to drop into layouts - make sure it is legible and is appropraite for your music mag genre

6. Band Names etc.

7.All contact sheets of all shots taken to date.

8. Any digital work you have created using Photoshop and superimposing onto green screen shots.

BBC TOUR Media City, Salford.

OUR BBC TOUR TRIP IS BOOKED

Tuesday January 31st 2017

Please bring in £10 on Friday to pay for the trip please.

SEMIOTICS

Pop Quiz: 

write answers down - do not show anyone!

Link below to 'Semiotics for Beginners' 

by Daniel Chandler

A full in depth overview to read at your leisure

http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/

FEMINISM

http://www.slideshare.net/niajones1/feminism-10459921

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Media-Gender-Identity-David-Gauntlett/dp/0415396611

Contact sheets & Thumbnails ready for Tuesday

All contact sheets must be printed and thumbnail sheets drawn out and posted up on your blog for your new magazine before Tuesday 22nd Nov.

On Tuesday 22nd we are transferring your Thumbnail sketches into reality using InDesign.

Have everything ready please.

We will select images to use from your contact sheets and edit then save to pop into your magazine layouts.

Contact Sheets for all images - greenscreen, city, backgrounds etc

It’s easy, and you don’t need any special photo software.


Here’s how to print a “contact sheet” in Windows:

1. Open the Pictures library by clicking the Start button and then clicking Pictures. Navigate to the place where the pictures are that you want to print and open the folder.
2. Click the pictures you want to print as thumbnails. (To select more than one, hold down the Ctrl key as you click, or you can select a range of photos by shift-clicking.)
3. On the toolbar, click Print.
4. In the Print Pictures dialog box, select the printer, paper size and type, and the number of copies you want to print, and then click Contact sheet in the list of print sizes. You can also print to a PDF file.
5. Click Print to start printing.

All of the images you take you must print them out and save them to post up on your blog - have them ready for Tuesdays lesson so we can decided which images to use.

outstanding deadlines need to be completed by friday

see below :

Questionnaire data to be collated into graphs and charts

Today you will look over the data you have collected in your muisc questionnaires and collate your answers into charts and graphs and analyse on your blog.

Show all data and discuss your findings.

Transfer Thumbnails into InDesign

MAIN TASK LISTS - To do list

DEAN - Indie

JAMES - Rock

DAVID - Rock

SAM - Pop

ALEX - Pop

PATRICK - Indie

JOE - Rock

GEORGE - Rap

To do:

Choose your magazines from your research and create Thumbnails for:

Front Cover/ Double Page Spread /Contents

Homework:

Complete all blog posts to date based on task list (previous blog post)

TASK LIST TO BE COMPLETED - HALF TERM

• Publish your front page and DPS
  Issued: 18/10/2016 Due: 18/10/2016
• Upload thumbnails
  Issued: 18/10/2016 Due: 18/10/2016
• Upload questionnaire
  Issued: 18/10/2016 Due: 18/10/2016
• Analysis of Music Magazines
  Issued: 14/10/2016 Due: 18/10/2016
• Complete creative mastheads on photoshop
  Issued: 4/10/2016 Due: 10/10/2016
• InDesign- click Links on master blog and practice using software
  Issued: 30/9/2016 Due: 4/10/2016
• Music Magazine - bring one in
  Issued: 23/9/2016 Due: 25/10/2016
• School mag analysis
  Issued: 21/9/2016 Due: 23/9/2016
• Set up a blog
  Issued: 20/9/2016 Due: 23/9/2016

S9 & S11 FREE ROOMS

S9 & S11

are available for you till 5pm

every night for you to catch up on all work

.

PLEASE USE THIS FACILITY

AS SOME OF YOU ARE GETTING BEHIND ON UPLOADING YOUR WORK

TO YOUR BLOGS

Mrs McDonald-Holmes

HOW TO ANALYSE YOUR MUSIC MAGAZINES - open link for help

http://www.slideshare.net/sarah123ashcroft/magazine-cover-analysis-main-coursework

SAVING YOUR WORK - FILE FORMATS

When saving please ensure you save all files as Jpegs if being posted onto your blog.

In Photoshop go to:

save/ save as - name your work - change file format to Jpeg

In InDesign:

Select all and then copy - open up Photoshop and create new - name your piece of work and click OK.

'Paste' and then your InDesign image will pop in.

Scale if needed.

Then save the project - save/ save as - name your work - change file format to Jpeg

All files will then be uploaded to your Blog

SETTING UP AND POSTS SO FAR>>>>

Here is a list of the headings for the posts that need to be completed for Friday 14th Oct:

1. Prelim task Analysis of the codes and conventions of an existing school magazine front cover
2. Prelim task Analysis of the codes and conventions of an existing school magazine contents page
3. Prelim task Analysis of the codes and conventions of an existing school magazine double page spread
4. Prelim task  Photoshop mastheads designs
5. Prelim task thumb nail sketches
6. Prelim task in design screen shots
7. Prelim task  Final front cover
8. Prelim task Final contents page
9. Prelim task  Final double page spread.
10. Evaluation

All posts need to be annotated with at least 200 words explaining:

What it is?

and if not part of the post then......

How it developed?

What skills did you gain?

Why it is the way it is?

How successful was it?

BLOGGER IS NOW WORKING IN S9 and S11

Good luck !

InDesign Tutorials

You all did 'fab' today and are on your way to mastering InDesign to create fantastic DTP layouts for the future.

You must all have the following saved and completed for next lesson:

Front Page

Contents Page

Double Page Spread

Save as: your initials college contents, DPs & front page etc

  Following on from todays lessons and to help you further in the future please refer to the link below as guidance:

http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/indesign-tutorials-1232639