Response to the evaluation questions

• This is very important as it shows the development of the text, reasoning behind how it is put together, a knowledge and understanding of your Target Audience (TA), how images denote certain representations of social groups and how it fits into the wider context of the magazine industry.

• We  looked at points to cover for each question last lesson- you need to ensure that you are covering these points ready to start some animation etc this week:

• What values do the producer have that echo your own?
• What did you learn? have skills improved?
• In what ways is your final magazine better in terms of code and conventions than the prelim task  on college magazine?
• Break down the TA more and look at tribes.
• Bring in  some theorists to explain how the text meet gratifications and needs of the TA
• Make sure that you look at representation including signs and signifiers for age, race, sex and nationality. 
• Talk specifically about the images you have used and how those characters are representative of a social group.

Spot your muisc magazine.....Quiz

Can you spot your magazines?

If so how do they fit in or vary from magazines on shelves?Compare & contrast to help with codes & conventions.

BBC Studio Tour Details - Tues 31st Jan 2017

BBC studios Tour 

on TUESDAY 31st January 

go to registration as normal.

Meet outside the Chapel doors at 9.15am promptly.

Mr Dougan & I will meet you there.

You MUST hand in your medical forms to us before the trip otherwise you will not be allowed to attend.

You will need:

Notepad

Pen

Camera/ mobile phone.

Money for lunch/ Packed lunch

Seven Final Evaluation Questions - January 13th

SEVEN EVALUATION QUESTIONS:　UNIT G321

In all cases, candidates should be encouraged to see the evaluation as a creative task and the potential of the format chosen should be exploited through the use of images, audio, video and links to online resources.

Marks should be supported by teacher comments and may be supported by other forms such as audio or video presentations.

• 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?

UNIT G321 is marked and internally standardised by the centre and marks are submitted to OCR by a specified date, a sample is then selected for external moderation.
The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks:
20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research;
60 marks for the construction;
20 marks for the evaluation.

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