Posting mockups

Nick's mock up of a front page (using a phone or somebody's nearby!)

Try to take pics of your finished mockups as above and post them on their blog, along with a commentary on your cover - consider the following prompts:

• What codes and conventions have they used?
• What colour scheme have they used?
• What can you tell about the target audience of this magazine and how do they try to lure this audience?

When you have finished the mockups of your contents page and double page spread, do the same as above for them.

Thursday Photoshop practice in B1

I am showing Year 11 media some photoshop bits and bobs in B1 tomorrow periods 1 and 2 if you missed any of our sessions. (There may only be  1 or 2 free comps)

Otherwise be catching up on all necessary blogposts please!

Apologies - here's the checklist now

Sorry folks, I know I said i'd put this up yesterday but here goes...

By the end of the week I would like you to have up:

1. Your brief - what this unit is all about and what you will produced by the end of the course including preliminary task

2. Initial research into music genre magazines

3. Semiotics lesson notes

4. Photoshop Tutorials - Write down what tools you have learnt that could be useful for producing your music magazine. Include examples of tools you have used with pictures - the more detail the better.
Include:
Crop
Contrast/Brightness
Spot heal
Clone stamp

Plus an evaluation - did you learn anything new? Was there anything in particular you found difficult? What bits do you think might be useful for a music magazine production?

5. Questionnaire - (Sample from the last couple of years - http://tiny.cc/rchoi - Write down why you need a questionnaire, what technology you used, why this technology might be effective, what you are going to do with the results, Evaluation: How effective is this method? Was there anything in particular you found difficult?
Make sure you include a link to your finished questionnaire.

6. Front cover mock ups - Include a picture taken or scan of at least one mock up of a front cover. Include information on colour schemes and a short commentary on how effective this particular front cover is.

7. By the end of the week you need to Blog your initial choice of music genre to be able to focus future research.

OCR Media Studies page

Go here for past papers, exam specs, advice from the examiners etc - click the pic to visit site

 

And this site http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/ 

although aimed at teachers, has some useful information from the examining team including example work with comments.

 

Top 20 Magazine Production tips

Students needed for this Thursday! Anyone!

Hi folks, if anyone wants any brownie points we are looking for some student ambassadors to represent A-Level Media at the open evening on Thursday evening. (6-8.30pm)
We are going to have some laptops up in the hall at our stall and we are looking for a couple of students to be available to speak to those considering taking Media Studies next year. They might not have any questions to ask, otherwise we would like students to show off the Photoshop bits we did on Monday - or indeed what you learnt at GCSE - Like if I gave you a load of random images and you just do some demos on removing spots... changing parts of the image black and white .... changing the contrast levels.

If you are up for this (or anything else you might want to show off!) please come and find me asap!!!

Introduction

Well done for getting your blogs set up. Please make sure all your work is posted on your blog - this is going to be your portfolio that will get you your mark, so effort on these is required :-)

Make sure you have Media Knowall as one of the sites you regularly visit on matters of media (so you are not going insane when Wikipedia blacks out for 24 hours...)
http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevel.php


Your brief:
By the end of the course you will have produced:
Prelim task: School/college newsletter

Main tasks:
The front cover for a music magazine, plus the contents page and a double page spread.

Please note: All photographs need to be original, ie. taken by yourself and not pulled from Google Images.