Absentees

Ella, Natasha, Nicole, Hope, Tasha - you have all missed 3 lessons this week. That's three hours of Media! You have missed lots of work and must catch up. Details of homework tasks are on my blog. You must make a real effort to attend lessons more regularly and take it upon yourself to catch up on the work missed. Remember, when looking at your blogs, assessors will look all the way back to January to look at the work you have done in preparation for your foundation portfoli. If there are items missing and gaps, questions will be asked and this could affect your final mark. Please, please, please don't fall behind!

Homework Task - Set Monday 22nd Feb

Using the notes from the case studies we did in class, you must explain how either KERRANG or NME magazine attracts its audience. Think about genre expectations, design, content and language used. You should think about how these details are linked to audience. You must blog your analysis.

The homework which was set in class on Monday 22nd is due by this Wednesday (24th).

The Story So Far.....

Here is a list of the following posts you SHOULD have on your blogs. To date, there should be at least 8 posts.

Posts so far.....

1. Photoshop tutorial - Chocolate

2. Nature magazine

3. Audience profile of Nature magazine

4. Newsman and Quad front cover analysis

5. Analysis of magazine front cover - any genre

6. Mock up of school magazine front cover/contents page and plan

7. Finished school magazine cover/contents page and written evaluation

8. Analysis of NME and KERRANG music magazines - cover and contents

Your homework over the half-term holiday is to ensure that you are up to date with your blogs and you have completed all 8 posts.

Preliminary Task - School Magazine

Some very promising work so far, Year 12! An excellent range of images taken from around the school and some interesting design ideas too! Tomorrow is our last practical lesson on this. We will be in E12 and you will have the lesson to finish your front cover and contents page. You will also need to write an evaluation of your completed work. I will give you all an outline of this evaluation in tomorrow's lesson. Remember, any work you miss or any work that remains unfinished in the lesson must be completed in your own time. Please try to keep up to date with all the work set.

Catch-up work for Janay, Jodi and Tasha

Ladies, you need to put together a mock up of the front cover and contents page of your school magazine. Look back to the examples we looked at from St Mark's, Quad and Newman for inspiration. You also need to go out and collect a range of images for your work. You must include a medium close up somewhere in your design. We will be in E12 on Monday so you can upload the pics and start working on Photoshop. It's good to see that you are actively looking to catch up the work you have missed.

Homework Task for Thursday's Practical lesson

Your task is to upload your completed images of the mock up of your school magazine cover and contents page, ready for tomorrow's lesson.

You must then write plan of what you intend to create and how you will go about this. Think about the images and camera angles you will use (also mise-en-scene), text, colour scheme, stories and the overall layout of the finished piece.

Remember that you must include a medium close-up shot somewhere in your finished product.

Tomorrow I will let you loose with the digital cameras, so make sure that you come to the lesson well prepared with your plan in mind and written up onto your blogs. I will be checking.

Absentees: Tasha, Nicole, Eddy, Lysette, Natasha, Jody, Jenay and Bethany must catch up all the work missed. Please don't fall behind with the classwork.