Examples and naming a blog

http://www.alevelmediastudies09-11.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.alevelmediastudies09-11.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/x.html

Do not fall behind on posting! Have much have you posted?

Right now this second, how many blog posts?

Amy: 12, 6 in March

Laura: 5, 2 in March

Georgia: 9, 5 in March

Tom C: 14, 2 in March

Nick: 14, 3 in March

James: 8, 3 in March

Ashleigh: 17, 5 in March

Jonathan, 15, 4 in March

John H: 9, 5 in March

Shaun J: 9, 2 in March

Ryan: 10, 4 in March

Oliver: 10, 1 in March

Casey: 13, 3 in March

Shaun O: 6, 2 in March

Tom P: 10, 5 in March

Liam: 8, 3 in March

Zoe: 16, 3 in March

Michael: 13, 4 in March

Max: 17, 7 in March

Sean S: 4, 1 in March

Joe Westall: 18, 10 in March

Joe Weston: 12, 6 in March

John Wood: 10, 5 in March

Photoshoot evaluation

This morning we will be saving our photos we took on Thursday. Once you have saved the pics YOU took you will be evaluating your first photo shoot.

 

• What shots did you take?
• Were there any problems?
• Are there any shots that you will be able to use in your prelim task?
• Highlight what uses - main cover image? Smaller inserted pics? Contents page?
• Are you going to have to arrange more pics to be taken?
• Is there anything you will need to do on your next photoshoot that you could not/did not do before?

 

ALSO, we need to be prepared for the resit on TV Drama/Games Industry - be aware of the upcoming reboot of Tomb Raider as in the next week it will be getting some publicity. I have placed an article in today's Metro on the AS videogames blog. By next week I want you to have read at least 3 articles (not Wikipedia) regarding the new Tomb Raider. There is a lot to talk about production, marketing and distribution as well as general audience and institution talk - you could argue that Lara Croft is an institution in herself! - and this game's release heralds a paradigm shift in audiences in gaming now that 40% of gamers are female - does this new version of Lara appeal any more to female gamers than the boobs 'n' bum with hip holsters version of the 1990s?

Once you have read at least 3 articles, compose a case study report on the new version of Tomb Raider - at the end of the case study please copy and paste the URL addresses of the articles you have used - mainstream news websites such as www.bbc.co.uk/news , www.guardian.co.uk , www.telegraph.co.uk but also gaming websites such as techradar, mashable, wired, mcv, cvg etc.

 http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/04/rhianna-pratchett-on-reclaiming-lara-croft-and-having-discworld-creator-terry-as-a-dad-3522630/

How to "research" a music magazine

Click below the cut for a guide on how to research a music magazine

Monday's tasks

By now you should have:
1. Brief
2. Initial genre research
3. Semiotics notes
4. Photoshop tutorials + evalution of your experience
5. Your questionnaire + evaluation of your experience
6. Front cover/contents page mock ups
7. School newsletters analysed - at least 2 different ones
8. Theory notes - Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze theory, Richard Dyer's Star Theory, Cohen's Moral Panic theory
9. Ideology: What is an ideology? Why is it important to have an ideology?
Then - What will be the ideology you are going to try to convey in your school magazine - and how are you going to do it?
10. Shot list of possible photographs

MONDAY'S TASKS
1. Use Publisher to create a mock up of your school/college magazine front cover.
Try not to avoid all of the design issues you found with the present examples
Go to moodle.deyeshigh.co.uk to view past examples of magazine covers. You can do better.
Before you can produce this:

 

you will need to create one of these - a mock up - this is to show you how all of your different ingredients will look on the page - this can save a lot of time messing about in Photoshop and InDesign if you take the time to plan beforehand.

Here is an A grade Media student shown to us at Inset day and their Preliminary task:

http://bethurwin.blogspot.co.uk/p/preliminary-task.html

 

http://tinyurl.com/deyesmedia12 to view past year's school magazine designs

In the second half of the double lesson, we will looking to start turning our mock ups into the real thing! (Minus pictures, waiting on the cameras)

Do you have the following? (Checklist)

For Thursday - a draft shot list sheet detailing what shots you will want to create for your newsletter. Consider content, shot types etc - will you need to ask a teacher to help? Etc.

Example Questionnaire

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-azRYumQ-4lKOP4wrWYZCf3OE5EcSwMHJQVKCEu1FGg/viewform


example questionnaire link