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AS Media - Evaluation

AS Foundation Portfolio Evaluation

The evaluation is an important part of the Foundation Portfolio. You must evaluate and reflect upon the creative process electronically using your blog.

In the evaluation the following seven questions must be answered:

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?

The deadline for the evaluation is 3rd May 2011

Use the Powerpoint example as a guide to answer each of the questions

AS Media Studies - Contents Page

Music Magazine - Contents Page

You will need to research and plan the contents page of your music magazine over half term.

Post at least 2 examples of real contents pages from music magazines onto your blog and analyse them. You should also create a rough draft of the layout for your own contents page.

You should then plan the photographs that you will need for the page. Try to include at least 3 original images on the page.

Use a variety of different images in order to show a range of the content within your magazine.

The deadline for planning your contents page is 3rd March 2011.

AS Music Magazine Double Page Spread

Deadline for Music Magazine Double Page Spread is Thursday 17th February 2011.

You need to have posted your double page spread on your blog by Friday 18th February 2011.

Remember, the 18th of February 2011 is an INSET day.

AS Music Magazine Cover Deadline

Change of Deadline for Year 12 Students

The deadline for the front cover of the music magazine will now be Wednesday 5th January 2011.

This is due to the fact that the school was closed on Friday 17th December 2010 because of the snow.

Make sure that your draft of the front music magazine cover is on your blog by the 5th January 2011.

You also need to be analysing examples of music magazine articles over the christmas holidays. Post some examples on your blog.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Year 13 A2 Advanced Production

Animatic Task

Remember to update your blog during the completion of this task. You could focus on the following:

• How did you develop the 500 word overview for your imaginary film?
• How did you create the storyboard for your trailer? - What were the key decisions that your group had to make during the storyboarding process?
• What is an animatic?
• Why do you need to create an animatic?
• How do you create an animatic?
• How will you use the animatic during the pre-production of your trailer?

You should also upload your animatic to your blog.

Deadline for blog updates: Friday 17th December 2010.

AS: Music Magazine Front Cover

Year 12 Students

You should now be constructing the front cover of your music magazine. Make sure that you book enough time on a computer!

Remember to post a selection of your original images on your blog.

Always save and post an image of your cover at each stage of the production to show how your ideas are developing during the construction stage.

Add notes to your blog to explain the decisions that you have made during the construction process.

Main Task - Music Magazine Planning

Music Magazine Front Cover

You will need to complete all of the following tasks by Monday 29th November 2010:

1. Evaluate the results for your music magazine questionnaire.
2. Create a MUSIC FAN PROFILE for the type of person who might read your music magazine.
3. Write a MISSION STATEMENT which outlines the style and content of your magazine. Use the Frank example as a template.
4. Create a reader READER PROFILE for your magazine. You should use the NME or Uncut reader profils as a template and remember to include images as well as facts and figures.
5. Take a photograph of a person or a group of people who represent your target audience.

All of the above information should be posted on your blog by Monday 29th November 2010.

You are advised to complete the tasks as soon as possible so that you can start planning and constructing the front page of your music magazine.

Remember to book the computer room and digital camera!

The deadline for the front cover of your music magazine is Friday 17th December 2010.

Preliminary Task Evaluation

AS Preliminary Task

School Magazine Front Cover

Analysis and Evaluation

Use the following guidelines in order to evaluate the front page of a school magazine that you produced for the AS Preliminary Production task.

You should identify aspects of your work that are conventional, together with any aspects of your layout and design which challenge conventions where possible.

Masthead

·       Is the name of the magazine appropriate?

·       What are the connotations of the masthead?

·       Is the colour scheme of the masthead appropriate?

·       Is the Masthead a sufficient size?

Images

·       Is there a main image?

·       Is the main image an appropriate size?

·       Does the main image give a clear indication of the story that it is representing?

·       Comment on the composition of the main image.

·       Are there any subsidiary images? (There should be at least 2).

·       Are the subsidiary images an appropriate size?

·       Have the subsidiary images been placed in an appropriate position on the page?

·       Do the subsidiary images give a clear indication of the story that they are representing?

Language

·       Have strap lines and sell lines been used on the cover? (Should be at least 3).

·       Do the strap or sell lines give a clear indication about the contents of the magazine?

·       Is the language informative and entertaining?

·       Have any literary devices been used? E.g. puns, alliteration, etc.

·       Is all of the spelling and punctuation accurate?

·       Have different fonts been used? (At least 2)

·       Is the font size clear and appropriate?

·       Has a consistent and appropriate colour scheme been used for the sell lines or strap lines?

Layout and Design

·       Is the layout of the front page clear and well organised?

·       Is the front page appealing to the reader?

·       Is the design of your page recognisable as the front cover of a school magazine?

Strengths

·       Identify three aspects of your front page which you think are successful.

Targets for Improvement

·       Identify three aspects of your front page which you think can be improved when you produce your front cover of an imaginary music magazine.