Friday's work

1. Use more accurate media terminology when annotating magazine examples.
2. Use the powerpoint 'image analysis' that has been emailed to you to remind yourself of what to look for.
By Monday you need to merge all 3 analyses into one powerpoint. This include:
3 analyse of a 6th form or college front page and at least 1 of a contents page (I understand these are difficult to find).

You must then refer to the evaluation questions and have a concluding summary as a separate post that answers the following points:
1. What forms and conventions have you identified in 6th form/college magazines?
2. How are students and young people represented in these publications?
3. Who would the audience be for these publications? How can you tell, what techniques have been used?

Finally research 'youth sub cultures'.

Questions to answer at the end of the portfolio

In the evaluation of your Foundation Portfolio the following seven questions must be addressed:
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

As you progress through each planning and research task have these questions in mind.

Cover lessons Monday and Tuesday and homework.

Checklist of work:
1. 'All About Me' collage on blog.
2. Comparison of raw and edited photo from photo shoot annotated and uploaded to blog.
3. Read and make notes on the 'taking good photos' powerpoint on the blog.
4. Read and make notes on the 'magazine conventions and terminology' powerpoint that I emailed to you.
5. Take the quiz on image analysis that is on the blog.
6. Find an example of a 6th form or college magazine front cover and contents and annotate it (using the terminology that you have gleaned from the powerpoint and quiz).
7. Present your annotation on a powerpoint on your blog. The easiest way to do this is to open a free account with slideshare and upload it that then share to your blog.
8. I would also like you to print out a paper copy (printing 4-6 slides per page so it is legible) so I can mark it before you move on.
9. Please hand this paper copy in on Thursday.
Here is an example of a good one although bear in mind its impossible to mark as it is so dark!

Sixth Form Magazine Analysis from Jennifer Welsford

This may seem like a lot of work but it represents 5 hours work so should be achievable.

Magazine Terminology to use when annotating examples

Codes and conventions of a magazine front cover from liam-lim-horgan

What you need to do for this unit

Print
Preliminary excercise : using DTP and Photoshop, produce:
1. The front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead.
2. A mock-up of the layout of the contents page.

3. Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.
All images and text used must be original and produced by you. You must include a minimum of four images.

4. Blogging: Presentation of the research, planning and evaluation should be done in the format of a blog. This MUST be kept up to date. It should be as multi- platform as possible, for instance, you can film your focus group & interview them about magazines. You could film your photo shoot. Scan your flatplans & include those. You should include screen shots of links & quotes to research sources. Try nimating your mood board & include background music. You could keep a video diary of your progress through the work. You can create powerpoint presentations & upload them to slideshare to include on your blog. You can record a podcast of you answering the evaluation questions.

The more imaginative and multi-modal, the better!


Assessment:This unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks: 20 marks for presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation

Taking effective photos

Photography lesson from Vicky Casson

Image analysis terms

You need to familiarise yourself with Media Specific terminology and use it!
Try this quiz to start off

Foundation Portfolio

We have had a quick overview of TV Drama. Now we need to turn our focus to the Foundation Portfolio.

This must include:
1. The front page and contents page of a 6th form magazine
2. The front page, contents and double page spread of a music magazine.

This must all be evidenced in a blog.
You need to use this blog as an online journal that traces your 'learning journey'.
How you have progressed as a photographer, designer, journalist and media researcher.
You should have at least one entry for every Portfolio lesson that you have.
You need to use as much media terminology/theory as possible.

So,first entry should be your likes and interests photoshop collage along with a brief analysis.
Second entry should be two images of your choice from our group photoshoot outside. Again they should be annotated according to camera shot/angle/composition/representation/codes of gesture/expression.

Timeline

1. Foundation Portfolio (magazine, blog and evaluation)
Completed by Christmas. Thursday and Friday
2. TV Drama and representation- Monday and Tuesday before half term
3. British Film- Monday and Tuesday after half term.
on going throughout year (we may lose some of these lessons at key deadline times)