Work coming up

1. Blog, Product and Evaluation all completed and uploaded by Tuesday 12th January.
2. When we return you will go straight into your mocks. The Media exam will be on Wednesday 6th January in the morning. You need to go to the conference room as you will be watching a 5 minute extract from a TV drama and answering questions on the
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Camera Angle, Shot, Movement and Composition
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Mise-en-Scène
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Editing
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Sound

and an element of Representation.

Evaluation Questions

Each candidate will evaluate and reflect upon the creative process and their experience of it. Candidates will evaluate their work electronically, this evaluation being guided by the set of key questions below. This evaluation may be done collectively for a group production or individually. Examples of suitable formats for the evaluation are:
A podcast
DVD extras
A blog
A powerpoint
In all cases, candidates should be discouraged from seeing the evaluation as simply a written essay and the potential of the format chosen should be exploited through the use of images, audio, video and links to online resources. Marks should be supported by teacher comments and may be supported by other forms such as audio or videotaped presentations.

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:
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In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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Who would be the audience for your media product?
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How did you attract/address your audience?
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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Research and Planning may be presented in electronic format, but can take the form of a folder or scrapbook at AS Level only. Centres should ensure that blogs or other online evidence are easily accessible for moderators, preferably through a central hub or gateway with links to the work of each individual candidate properly signalled with candidate numbers.

Friday 4th December

I really think this point needs emphasizing:


'There should not be a dominance of images of the same subject amongst the four original images'

What this means is you need to take photos of more than one person.
You may want to consider your front page featuring a different subject than your double page spread (although you don't have to if it features a band).
You will have to do more than one photo shoot.

At this point in time your first draft of your front cover should be complete. You can always come back to it and reflect on it later, its better really if you do.

You should be starting on your double page spread and consider whether you need to take more photos this weekend. You don't have to use the SLR camera, an ordinary camera will be ok, a mobile phone camera won't be good enough quality.

You should aim to have the double page spread complete by the end of of this coming week & start on the contents page.

A reminder of how many images you need to use from the exam board:

Found photos may not be used as part of the project; all photos must be original.
There must be a minimum of four original images included across the pages of the magazine.

Original images should be included as part of the planning evidence and the process of changing them should be evidenced (e.g. through screengrabs of Photoshop process).

There should not be a dominance of images of the same subject amongst the four

There needs to be more attention to mise en scène in the construction of images.


Be careful you fulfill this criteria!

Here is the finished version

Xtranormal

Here is the movie whilst in the process of being rendered. You can see how the computer starts with the very basic outline then adds to it.