Question 6 & 7 examples.

Q6&7 by jasonleefarr

These are examples of the type of content you can use in responding to Question 6 & 7.

You must answer these questions using interactive tools of your own choice based upon the ones we have used already or any others you think would be suitable.  Remember that you will get credit for being innovative in your use of technology.

Question 5 How did you attract/ address your target audience?

Q5 by jasonleefarr

Evaluation Question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Show the IDEAL READER of your magazine, try and create a virtual picture of who they might be and why. 

The JICNAR scales ABC1C2DE demographic is good to use here.

Consider the age range and the psychographic variables of your audience.

What type of job do they do? How do they dress? Where do they shop?  What type of house/ flat do they live in? What do they value in life? Where do they go when they socialise? What types of things do they spend their money on? How do they spend their free time?, What car do they drive or aspire to drive? What phone do they own? How do they listen to music, online, CDs, spotify/ sound cloud etc.?

You will need to include photos of your ideal reader.  You may take them or you may search for them.  

You will need to interview some people from your target audience on video, upload it to YouTube, as a video or to soundcloud, as an audio recording and then embed it into your blog.  What do they think of your magazine, have you appealed to their needs?  Would they buy it? What do they think are the strengths are or the areas for development? etc. develop some of your own questions too!

Evaluation Question 3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

In this question you need to:

1. Explain what type of media institution would distribute your media product to an audience

2. Explain why they would be a suitable institution, give details of their background, their circulation figures (abc.org.uk)

3. Explain what other opportunities they would offer you.  Online content, e-zines, flipboard content, radio broadcasting, TV advertising, phone apps etc.

4. Provide examples of other successful products that they distribute to similar/ related audiences.

Select the right distributor for your genre of magazine.  Do they already sell a product like yours?  Do they have a gap in the market?

Use magforum.co.uk for research into different institutions.

http://www.wikihow.com/Add-a-PowerPoint-to-Blogger

Create your answer for this question in Powerpoint and then we will embed it into your blog using Scribd.  The link above explains how you can do this.

Thinglink…..

Thinglink is a great tool for your evaluations.  It allows you to make your products interactive by adding hotspots.  These hotspots will allow you to upload text or link audio and video content.  To begin you must first create an account for Thinglink at www.thinglink.com.  To attach audio you will need to do this via soundcloud by creating an account on www.soundcloud.com and recording an clip.  You can add video through youtube.  You should already have created an account on youtube, once you upload files these can be linked to hotspots on Thinglink.

You will be using Thinglink for your answer to question four on the evaluation.

Evaluation Question 2. How does your media product represent social groups?

What are social groups?

Groups within society.  How do we categorise these groups?

We can use a range of variables.

Age
Gender
Race
Ethnicity
Religion
Culture
Able bodied/ disabled
Sexuality
Interests
Beliefs

Do they fit other categories or stereotypes?

Are they goths, emos, rockers, indie, ravers etc.

How are they represented?  Consider camera, use of language, words and text, costumes, facial expressions, locations, lighting, body language plus anything else that is in the mise-en-scene.  

How have you constructed these representations? What about the use of denotation and connotation?

Are they positive or negative portrayals? 

Provide illustrative examples from your text, use photos, screenshots etc. make it as visual as possible.

Do this question in PREZI and embed to your blog.  This needs to be completed by Wednesday 26th March.

Evaluation Question 1.

In what ways do your media products use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?

Use padlet to answer this question and link it to your blog with a title and question as above.

http://padlet.com/wall/ynsi22pmk1

Evaluation

For the next 3 weeks in our Media lessons but also for homework - you will be focusing on your Evaluations: This is worth 20% of the marks - the same as your research and planning.  It is very important that you do a good job, it can be the difference between grades.

It is important that your answers to the 7 evaluation questions are not just essays that are presented digitally. It is vital that you use these web 2.0 tools to help you and any others that you find that would be suitable to communicate your response.  These will all need to uploaded or linked to your blogs and clearly labelled with each question.

1. Slideshare - For publishing powerpoints that you can upload to your Blogs

2. YouTube - For publishing videos that you can upload to your Blogs

3. Voki - For creating audio files that are "spoken" by an animated cartoon character

4. Prezi - For interactive presentations that can have videos embedded within them

5. Padlet - A "post it note" style wall of ideas and comments

6. Screencast-O-Matic - Record what you are doing on screen and then publish to YouTube ... and then put on your Blog.

The seven questions are below.  Your responses need to be detailed, thorough and make effective use of media terminology we have developed.

Deadline Date

The deadline for completion of all the work for 
1. Research & planning
2. Construction of final front cover, contents page and double page spread is 17th March.

After the 17th March we will be working on the evaluation which is worth 20 marks and consists of 7 questions.  This will be completed in class and for homework.

YOU MUST ENSURE YOU HAVE A YOU TUBE ACCOUNT SETUP BEFORE NEXT MONDAY.  IF YOU WANT IT TO BE JUST FOR YOUR MEDIA WORK THEN YOU MAY NEED TO CREATE A SEPARATE ACCOUNT TO AN EXISTING ACCOUNT. 

Double page spread examples of good work

Double Page Spreads

Step one: work out your desired layout grid and set it up using the guidelines

Step two: decide whether you want two or three columns 

Step three: begin to rough out your layout with content

This will help you to develop your ideas and to construct your product.  Remember to consider the use of a variety of page furniture and to ensure that you do not use a font size too large for the columns of text.  As a guide do not exceed size 16pt font.  If in doubt print it out and take a look, get feedback from someone else to check what they think.

Half-term Homework for Research and Planning of Double Page Spread

During the half-term holiday you need to do the following and add it to your blog ready for the first Monday back.  

1. You need to identify the codes and conventions of DPS design and layout.

2. You need to do an analysis of an existing Music magazine DPS.

3. You need to produce 6 layout plans for ideas for your music magazine DPS.

4. You need to identify examples of page furniture found on music magazine DPS. Use screenshots from existing magazines to illustrate this.  (see the images below to help you)

Grade A contents pages

You want a grade A? Then this is how to do it.

Look at these contents pages.

They use all the key elements we have discussed in class.

How can you learn from these?

What can you pick out and use in your own ideas and final designs?

Contents Pages

For the next three weeks your focus is on developing the contents page for your music magazine.

The deadline for completion is 14th February.

You need to:

Research- identify the codes and convention of contents pages for music magazines by analysing existing products.

Planning- decide if you are producing a 1 or 2 page contents page, produce 8 layout sketches for your contents page, show use of grids, guidelines and columns  produce mock-up ideas and show development of these with clear and detailed annotation explaining decisions and justification for your ideas.  Use key terminology and highlight these where used.

Construction- complete your final contents page and upload it to your blog.

Blog of the week.

BLOG OF THE WEEK

This is fabulous work.  Really love the quality of the work that is developing.  You have managed to take some excellent photos that are very professional looking and create the look of a real product.  Your work on the use of fonts with variety and emphasis is well developed.  This is grade A work all the way- keep it up!
  If you want to know what you need to do to get into the high grade boundaries then take a look at this BLOG.

  2 green cards and a chocolate bar for you!

Feedback

It is really good to see so many good examples of excellent work in progress.  There are students from both groups who are demonstrating really good quality work and are keeping their blogs up to date with frequent and regular posts.  Uploading the development of draft ideas and mock-ups, showing how work has been edited and the tools and effects you have used.  Explaining and justifying the decisions you have made about why things do or don't work as you want them to.  What changes you are making and why.  

This makes it all the more disappointing to look at some peoples' blogs and see that they have not uploaded anything at all this year!  Or at most a couple of posts in January.

This is not good at all and is not the kind of approach that will secure you a good grade (anything above a grade D).  

You must post at least once or twice a week, not once a month.  

S O R T   I  T   O U T!

PADLET

For homework for both groups you need to register an account with padlet at 

www.padlet.com

Make sure you note down your username and password somewhere safe please. 

Comments on your blogs

Keep an eye on your blogs over the next couple of weeks as I will be adding comments about your progress and the latest posts you are uploading.

Remember that you need to show the development of your front cover from the initial stages to the final constructed product.  Use screenshots and annotation to explain and justify your decisions and actions and wherever possible use correct terminology.

12A Media- Absence Work for today

Morning all.

As I said on Monday I am at a meeting this morning so you need to continue to make progress with your front cover drafts and mock-ups.

Don't forget the deadline for the final front cover is 24th January.

Remember to consider the conventions and the elements that an audience expects to see on the front cover of a magazine.

Welcome back.

Now that the mocks have finished it is time to get cracking on the coursework.

Some of you have not posted on your blogs for 3-4 weeks, this is really not good.

This term is when you need to complete your final products (60% of the marks) and complete your evaluation (20% of the marks).

You have lots to do and you do need to put yourself under some pressure to get it completed to the best of your ability.

I will be checking individual progress over the next week and may tell you to attend catchup sessions if I am not happy with your progress.

Final front cover deadline is 24th January.