Independent Tasks for DLD 12th January

Year 12.


Continue working on research and planning tasks. All of you have work you can be doing!


Remember, I am expecting to see analysis of three existing magazine covers this Friday so, if that is something you are missing, these should be a priority. After that, look back at the deadlines for this half term - what can you get ahead on? Look at the suggested task list below - is there anything on there you haven't done? If you have done everything on the list look for other blogs - here, here or here, for example - and see what other tasks they have. Note - THIS and THIS blog have some excellent research examples.


Task list;
Research into institution - who would produce your magazine and why?
Image manipulation of test shots with an explanation of what you were aiming for.
Draft layouts - either hand drawn or on computer.
Audience profiling - who is your magazine for? How will you engage their interest?
Genre research - what genre of music is your magazine? How will images and fonts used reflect this?
Character creation - who is your cover star? Create a back story which will help justify photo choices and generate article copy.
EVALUATIONS!!!


The only task you won't be able to do is your cover, contents and double page spread. Nothing else requires special access to the Macs or for me to be in the building. Despite what some of you have told your form tutors!!!


Year 13


You should each have something to be getting on with - either finishing research and planning for your music video/digipak/poster or working on evaluations. I suspect none of you have completed a fully storyboard for your video. This should therefore be a priority! Again, if you have done all the suggested tasks look for example blogs to inspire you. Blogs such as Caitlin's, this one, this one or this one are all worth a look.

Cover Lesson November 3rd 2016

Read through the PowerPoint below - this covers all of the work you should, by now, have completed, along with examples and advice.


Once you have read it through you need to be working on improving/completing tasks. Currently nobody has done close to everything they should have so everybody will have something to be working on.


Any questions please email me.

G321 Revision from Charlotte Cowles

Example Work G321

Links for the two blogs we looked at today.

Analysis tasks;

http://6103racheljinksg321fp.blogspot.co.uk/2012_03_01_archive.html


Overall blog presentation;

http://hcronefoundationportfolio.blogspot.co.uk/



Coursework research and planning deadline is this Friday - the 21st - this is for everything you have done so far. There is time after half term to add test shots and other preparation tasks as you begin to put your magazine cover, contents and double page spreads together. Work should be submitted either via blog or email.

Year 12 Media Tasks

} Look at three college magazines and briefly analyse.

} Test shots for college magazine.

 

} Research into institution (see examples here)

} Image manipulation of test shots. Explain what you were trying to achieve.

} Plan for College magazine – cover and contents.

} Audience profiling for music magazine.

} Music magazine genre research.

} College magazine cover and contents (due no later than 4th October.)

} Blog/work marking dates – Tuesday 20th September.

Examplar Analysis

Ryan found this example piece of analysis which is worth a look. It also gives you another platform which you can use to present your work.



He also found this blog which is another excellent example of what to aim for;

https://robynlanphier.wordpress.com/

Year 12 Example Work and Deadlines

 Below is a link to a level 3 blog which is useful for guidance when producing your own research and planning;

http://laurasell.blogspot.co.uk/

You should be referring to example work while completing research and planning to give yourselves an idea of what tasks to include and the quality of analysis needed to achieve that level. As always you should strive to do better than the work you are looking at!

Your deadlines for G321 are as follows;

18th December for initial research and planning, this should cover you analysis of the cover, contents and double page spread, as well as your preliminary task.

12th February for all research and planning. This should include any improvements made to analytical work, audience and product research and mock ups of your proposed magazines.

24th March magazines final deadline. Any improvements to prior work and your own cover, contents and double page spread.

15th April final submission date for any revisions/improvements and evaluations.

Please note that all deadlines are non-negotiable.

G321 evaluation powerpoint

In the evaluation the following 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?

 

Remember, although you are presenting your research and planning via your blogs, you can use other media to provide your evaluation. Other acceptable formats include Prezi, DVD extras, podcast, and website.

 Below is the presentation from the lesson - you only really need to refer to slides 10 - 24

 

Year 12 media coursework g321 evaluation techniques from MediaGeorge

G321 Final Research and Planning and Task Guidance.

First a little gentle reminder of the timescale remaining;

All research and planning work MUST be with me by the 27th March. Ideally you will also be in a position to submit a finished film.

Films, if not submitted before Easter, MUST be ready for the first lesson, the first week back (Monday 13th April period 2). These can be either uploaded to YouTube and a link provided on your blog or you can put the film onto a pen drive or disc and hand it to me. Please clearly mark disc/pendrive with your name.

Evaluations will be completed by the 24th April. There are six questions you need to answer and I will be going through these next Monday so that you are clear about what you need to do.

Therefore you have six weeks, including the holidays, to get all this work finished and handed to me. Work is being sent to the exam board on the 27th which means I have no room to move the final submission date by.

Although not all of this work is to be submitted electronically it is advisable that you do. You will need to submit work electronically next year.

I have taken screenshots of relevant pages from the exam board spec which should answer any of your questions;

 

Hopefully this answers any questions you have about the task and the expectations of the exam board.

Example Research and Planning for G321

My film is going to be a Supernatural Fantasy film. Its aim is to introduce the audience to the main characters - kind of an origin story if you like. This is because in the genre of Supernatural Fantasy sequels and trilogies are big business. Therefore I'd set my film up in the same way.

Although most films in the genre tend to be aimed as a teen audience - consider The Hunger Games, Divergent series and Maze Runner - mine would be elevated to a slightly older demographic. This is because I think a lot of adults enjoy Supernatural Fantasy but that only television shows seemed to be aimed at them, for example Grimm, Fringe, Warehouse 13 or Supernatural. I'd like my film to bridge the gap between the two mediums by appealing to hte same demographic as those shows. However I would also consider keeing the rating to a 15 as I think young adults would still enjoy my film.

The plot;

Amber is a witch and demon hunter. She spends her time on the road with brothers Duncan and Seth, hunting demons and monsters from folklore and protecting the innocents - people who are fortunate enough to be oblivious to things that go bump in the night.

Amber's cases lead her to Hemingford where an evil cult is seemingly enacting their own form of divine retribution. It is up to Amber and the boys to infiltrate the cult and fight whatever evil is at the root of it. It is a case that will cost Amber more than ever before and will raise questions about her own history. Can she trust what she has been told her entire life? Why was her mother really murdered all those years ago?

Pitch;

Monsters do exist. Ever get the feeling that you are being watched from the shadows? That's because you are............... Ghosties, Ghoulies and eight legged beasties stalk the Midnight realm with only the Hunters to keep them at bay. Working in secret the Hunters protect you from creatures once thought to only exist in the world of make-believe. My name is Amber Thessaily and I am a Hunter. You are holding my diary, the record of a smoking hot Hunter on the frontlines of the battle against the things that go bump in the night.

Example Research and Planning for G321

My main character Amber will wear outfits similar to Faith in Buffy - tank top, jeans, boots. Basically low maintenance, easy to run and fight in clothes;



I'm also really influenced by the slightly steampunk look of Claudia Donovan in Warehouse 13 and think I'd like to incorporate some of that into Amber's costume. Expecially as Faith's look is slightly outdated. Therefore;

 

Basically, leather, boots, badges, studs and band t-shirts (obviously no Farnsworth or Tesla!)

 

For the brothers, as their characters are very much based on Dean and Sam from Supernatural I'd go with a similar look to them. Looking around, another influence would be Dale Barbara from Under the Dome. Simply, jeans, t-shirt or checked shirt, khaki or leather jacket.

 

 

Obviously I'm not going to go out and buy clothes for my actors so I'm going to have to work with what they, or I have, but this gives me a starting point which I can adapt. For the most part, as none of this is particularily specialist I think I'll be able to recreate the three costumes fairly faithfully.

Example Research and Planning for G321

Initial ideas mind map;

This shows my first thoughts on the three possible genres. From this I can see I have the most knowledge and understanding of the horror and syfy/fantasy genre. Horror would be easier to do while some of my ideas for syfy/fantasy are possibly a little out of my means. 

Ideally I'd like to combine the two creating a horror urban fantasy cross genre...

G321 Coursework marking

I have started to mark your blogs for the research and planning component of G321 and am a little surprised to see work still missing.

I posted the link to the booklet, which explained what you needed to include and had advice on how to do well, a while back. All of you should have saved a copy to refer to - especially as the booklet had a checklist of tasks on the back. I am assuming that not all of you did.

I have uploaded the booklet to slideshare, and posted it below, for you to access. I suggest you do.

G321 booklet(1) from Charlotte Cowles

For those of you missing work, I have graded what you have on your blogs. I will look at them again on the 9th March. If work is still missing you will be expected to attend intervention.

Year 12 and 13 Deadlines

For both year 12 and 13 the deadline for research, planning and analysis is the end of this half term. Work should be uploaded to your blog by the end of the day Friday 13th Feb.

If you have any problems getting work to upload then you need to either email it to me or print it out and hand it to me. Don't pass it on to anyone else to give me. I would like the opportunity to mark all this work and feedback on it after the half term break so, if needed, you have plenty of time to add and improve work.

Therefore the only work you should have left to complete after half term is the filming and editing of your film opening/music video. You have until Easter to get that done and then the Easter holidays and two weeks following the holidays to evaluate and further improve on any tasks. 

Therefore the actual final deadline for evaluations is the 24th April. I have to get marks sent off on the 27th so there is no chance of extending this. If you miss it your evaluations will not be marked and the marks will not be added to your overall grade. 

Year 12 today - 25/11

Today you should be either working on exam case studies or, using the draft booklet for G321, starting to think about coursework.

The booklet can be found here; O:\Media Studies\A Level and is the pdf titled G321 Booklet (make sure you open that one and not the G324 booklet!).

I have included deadlines - planning and preparation is due in the week we get back.

Note - some of you still have a lot of tasks to catch up on!

Year 12 - Missing Work and AP2

I am still concerned that there is a lot of work missing from some of your blogs. This is making it difficult for me to give you a grade for work so far. This will impact on AP2 as, for some of you, I have no choice but to award a U.

To make it easy for you to see how I have come to grading decisions, I have separated work into tasks that count towards your coursework and are being used as indication of your potential and tasks that, although they will contribute towards your final grade, do not directly impact on my judgement of your potential.

You were given a very clear deadline. Although I expect to see the missing work on your blogs, work submitted after the deadline will not be given a grade.

Coursework Preparation;
Media profile and collage
Table comparing the BBC with Warner Bros

Graded Work;
Photography task - sequencing photos to show a short scene
Storyboard for your Preliminary Task
Outline for new preliminary task - to be done at home
Notes on Narrative supported with screenshots
Narrative flowchart of your favourite film or story using Tordorov
Analysis of a film opening in the same genre as your film
Research of a media company looking at what Media it owns
Preliminary group task (done in school)
Evaluation of group preliminary task


Exam;
Notes on TV Drama and Editing techniques

Table comparing the BBC with Warner Bros
Table comparing 1960s audience to modern audiences


The only piece of work which I am not expecting to see before the end of the month is;

Preliminary Film Task (due by the end of November)

If this continues to be a problem I will be contacting home, possibly discussing your future on this course with Mr Franklin, Mr Segar and Mrs Dove.

Year 12 checklist

Having looked at your blogs I am concerned that there is a lot of work missing for some of you. I have put together a checklist of what work we have covered and, therefore, what should be posted on your blog. You will need to catch up on this work before we move on.

Media profile and collage
Notes on TV Drama and Editing techniques
Photography task - sequencing photos to show a short scene
Storyboard for your Preliminary Task
Preliminary group task (done in school)
Evaluation of group preliminary task
Outline for new preliminary task - to be done at home
Notes on Narrative supported with screenshots
Narrative flowchart of your favourite film or story using Tordorov
Analysis of a film opening in the same genre as your film
Table comparing the BBC with Warner Bros
Research of a media company looking at what Media it owns
Table comparing 1960s audience to modern audiences
Preliminary Film Task (due by the end of November)

You don't have any lessons with me this week but should be using study time and some home learning time to complete work. I expect to see this work on your blogs by the end of next weeks lessons.

G321 Task

A helpful article for you to look at with examples of really effective opening scenes. Might help with ideas...

Ten Great Opening Scenes

The 180 Degree Rule: Doing it Right, Doing it Wrong & Doing it With Thre...

Clearly demonstrates the 180 degree rule in action - much better than my attempts to explain!

Types of Film Cuts

Really useful video about different type of cuts with clear examples.

Item of Interest

I had an email regarding the following event which sounds quite interesting. Certainly if you were thinking of using your A level to go into film making it would be worth a look. It is in Cambridge which is a bit of a trek however if several of you wanted to go I'm sure you would be able to sort something out.



It is in the day time but for year 13 this is a Media Day so I would be happy to allow you the time to attend rather than coming in. Year 12s I don't know your timetable and therefore couldn't say whether you'd be able to get the permission needed to attend. If you are interested I'd suggest discussing with any teachers you may have on that day.

CFC: The Keeper of Lost Causes | Arts Picturehouse | Cambridge

 



THE KEEPER OF LOST
CAUSES

Friday 14th November,
10.00am - 1.00pm

This is
the first thrilling adaptation of the bestselling Department Q crime novels by
Jussi Adler-Olsen. Carl Mørck (Kaas, The Killing) is a disgraced
detective who is reassigned to a basement-bound job filing cold cases in the
newly created Department Q. He is also allocated a new assistant, Assad
(Fares), a smart young cop. Always one to go against orders, Mørck throws them
headlong into the mystery of a politician’s disappearance five years
earlier. Believing the case to be unsolved, they embark on a dangerous
journey that will lead them into the dark underworld of
Copenhagen.

Presentations:

Barry
Forshawe: Scandinavian Noirs

Trish
Sheil: Silent film influences on contemporary
noir

Dr. Tanya
Horeck: Women in crime thrillers

Suitable
for A/AS/Undergraduate/BTEC English/Film/Media Studies
students

Cost: £4
per ticket. Accompanying teachers free. Anglia Ruskin University student
free.