Ideology & Preparing for your college magazine prelim task

 

Blogging checklist

Get blogging folks! Try to get the following uploaded asap:

 

1. Introduction post detailing your project

2. Post a link to your questionnaire

3. Findings from your questionnaire once you have had enough responses

4. THEORY: A paragraph about Semiotics theory including a picture that you will go into detail about

5. THEORY: Feminism: A paragraph about feminist theory including a picture or video that you briefly talk about to show what you have learnt.

6. Photoshop - Talk about what you have learnt, what is Photoshop and what skills have you gone through - include the pictures you have edited if you can.

7. InDesign - Talk about the role InDesign plays in laying out professional magazines. Show your InDesign experiments - you will need to talk a screenshot of your work in class - and describe what you have learnt

Click the pics below to view two very important documents - The research and planning checklist and the final mark sheet for the G321 Music Magazines unit

 

 

Fifa 14

This will seem more relevant when we look at digital distribution in video games after Christmas (I promise!) but here is my FUT14 team after the opening weekend. #allinthenameofresearch

Task for Monday's lesson p1

TASK: In the last week we have had tutorials on both Photoshop and InDesign – you will need to post blogposts with the following information:

1. explain what each of these software programs are and why you would use them – particularly in the context of the music magazine industry

2.Describe what you have learnt to do, including screenshots/printscreens of before and after to show the processes involved

3. Evaluate what bits you have struggled with – you can use this time to practise any parts of these programs that took a while to get used to.

Questionnaires

You will need to conduct some market research into the buying habits and musical tastes of your target audience. Think carefully about the kind of questions you will be asking and what kind of layout of question will guarantee the most successful answer that can be used to analyse trends etc.

Here are a couple of questionnaires from past years for you to look at:

Rebecca Choi

Zoe Radford

You will be using Google Docs in order to create your questionnaires.

Once you have finished creating this, you will need to start getting responses for it - this would be most effective if you used your social networks to persuade people to fill it in. The more the better for your results!

1. While logged into Blogger go to https://drive.google.com

2. Then click on "Create"

3. Then click on "form"

Important:Think about how many questions you want on each page as well as the overall layout of the questionnaire.

Last year's music mags

Last year's Year 12 Blogs

OCR Basic Photography for Media Studies

OCR Basic Photography for Media Studies, presented by Kevin Wells showing basic camera shots and how to position lighting and models for the best results.

OCR Media Studies - Basic Camera Shots

Basic Camera Shots for OCR Media Studies, presented by Karl Davis

AS Media Studies - Induction lesson

 

First post

Welcome to AS Media.

Your first task today is to create your own blogs.

Welcome Year 12

Well done you for opting for A-level Media Studies.

This blog is designed for use for those in 12C - the class taught by the Dream Team of Mrs McGlone and Mr Howard. For 12B (Messrs Williams and Howard) get yourself to HERE.

We expect you to:

1) Provide a well‐organised folder to store and organise all work and bring it to
every lesson (see below on staying organised)
2) Keep your electronic files organised and accessible

3) Bring a USB memory pen to every lesson (the bigger the better: min 2gb)
4) Make detailed notes every lesson
5) Complete homework on time, to a suitable standard
6) Take responsibility for meeting all deadlines
7) Attend every lesson, on time
8) Be proactive in communicating with your teacher(s) e.g. if you have missed a lesson, have problems with work, or know you will be absent from a lesson

9) Check the blog and Twitter regularly: this will be our primary form of communication
with you
10) Return parental permission slips for borrowing equipment and responsible
ICT use, including the privilege of accessing YouTube in school


If you do not meet our expectations we will:
1) Discuss our concerns with you
2) Discuss our concerns with your parents and Mr Delaney
3) Set you targets to avoid having to remove you from the course
4) Make you pay for entry to exams
5) Remove you from the course and exam entry

 

Year 12 is a big jump from Year 11. You must become an independent learner who
takes responsibility for your own progress. We will provide you with endless links to
resources, articles, videos and research, but it is what YOU do with this that
matters. The more YOU put in the more you will get out of the course.