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.