20th Nov - cover work

sorry guys - ill

Today please continue to work on your PLANNING

You should all be storyboarding the narrative ready for filming starting next week.
Lane/Eloise - bullet point plan/storyboard initial ideas for the music video
Cal - keep at the work we discussed yesterday
Moll - plan narrative please and schedule a shoot
Sophie - please make sure everything is uploaded so i can see it
Ruby - do some demographic on magazine readership / smog testing / sketch layout ideas OR storyboarding you planned film
Emily - storyboarding
Courtney - storyboarding/evidence of documentary content - remember the timescale restriction
Sam

All except Max - Max,  you need to be planning the layout and content of your pages: organise simple paper sketches of potential layouts and provided evidence of intended article topics/content

please photograph and upload relevant work so i can see what you have done today

thanks

RESEARCH looking for demographic evidence?

TRY yougov.co.uk

you put in a brand, product or group and then sit back and read

https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/The_Sun/demographics

Planning - production of a magazine /front cover

if you re taking this option you need to explore the codes and conventions as applied to magazines and the elements you are intending to produce

the following are interesting examples of other students deconstructing, denoting,  planning and comparing research to own ideas - they are good levels to aim for

MEDIA STUDIES QUESTION 1 from Matilda Dawson

or

Conventional layout of a magazine front cover from jackdawson1111111111

or 

Front cover analysis - Empire and Total Film magazine from ChrisJDonnellan

production of ancillaries - website design

these links may be interesting

7 key web site conventions


3 homepage mistakes you may make

examples of student presentations

a basic student presentation on the core conventions required

Analysis of website convention (the killers) from Forbzy

Conventions of a music act’s website from Lucki17

research and planning: Advance consideration of Genre - linked to Audience/Industry/Exhibition

You must include Genre studies/evidence (for each artefact). you could use tables, talking head videos / comparisons/primary and secondary research. You must have deconstructions

Conventions

Definition the ‘rules’ that are generally understood and accepted when producing a media text in a particular genre. they are long accepted as the norm by an audience and although you can change them if as genres evolve if you do it too fast the audience will be confused

stage 1

the conventions, aesthetics and representation codes of your chosen media area. The codes and conventions in media can be separated into 3 distinct groups –
- Technical (camera techniques & shots),
- Symbolic (ie clothing, colours)
- Written and audio (music etc).

they can include:

• structure
• form
• narrative
• colour
• editing
• character / representations
• mise-en scene
• camera and editing work

stage 2
the conventions, aesthetics and representation codes of your chosen media genre: 

Codes

Definitiion - Codes are systems of signs, which create meaning - they are really firm and almost never broken. Codes can be divided into two categories – technical and symbolic

there can be  a number of codes:

• character codes
• plot codes
• structural codes
• cultural codes
• production codes

you could power point it

for example

stage 3
how your intended genre meets the needs of your Target Media Audience

• identify your audience and explain what they like
• genre habits
• prefered reading style - active / oppositional / passive / frequency.....
• expected generic pleasures

stage 4
how your genre meets the needs of your Media Industry:

• what are the implications for the Industry
• cost/ profit
• distribution
• exhibition
• audience responses

you will need evidence of all 4 stages to get the highest marks

this site may be of use http://media-studies.tki.org.nz/Teaching-media-studies/Media-concepts/Codes-and-conventions

FEEDBACK: Current issues appearing in blogs as i mark them

THERE are a number of issues that are recurring as I assess - please take note

TIPS FOR SUCCESS

1. the more secondary content you use the more it looks like you are a weak student so: if you use other peoples material - analyse and criticise it / then produce your own versions - this is especially true if it is other students work
2. make sure you regularily review your own blog - there are lots of 'post later/I am going to do.....later' type comments so do go back to it and finish / reflect on what you have learned.
3. Your Blogs should be pretty full by now - only 2-5 posts is simply not enough however good they are
4. make it interactive - add images/links etc
5. deactivate the word verification option - it drives me nuts and slows down the process of assessment

many things trigger blogs being blocked - look out for them - here are a few

• trigger words - violence/racism/aggression/sexism...
• links that are not word urls
• links to sites that link to others that are blocked -(look for Urls that use numbers and symbols) - if necessary just remove the hyperlink and add the address only

readability Smog Testing link

The readability guide to a piece of text is NOT an age guide but a guide to how easy the passage is to read - you need to do this for written artefacts like reviews, newspapers etc

Nottingham guide to SMOG readability tests