Just to clarify the requirements for your photos for the music magazine which you need to take over half term.
You need to have at least 3 different scenarios/locations but the syllabus does not specify shot types as it does for the sixth form magazine.
I would suggest taking a selection though of close up, mid shot and long shots. It would help if your models had a change of clothes and possibly hair styles/make up. You could include these clothes choices, or what you would have in an ideal world, on your blog. Don't forget googlemaps for location and reccy shots.
The front cover artist should be the same artist that features in your double page spread but you should use different shots for it.
It would also help if you took some of a secondary artist band that you could put on your contents page or as part of your article (they could be an inspiration or collaborator with your main artist). Live shots at any gigs or festivals would be really useful but you must have taken them yourself.
If you want to get a head start, when we get back after half term you will be recording your next textual analysis as a short film.
You need to buy a copy of a magazine that is the most like how you want yours to be. You need to write your ideas down first then film yourself turning the pages and discussing what codes and conventions you have found, (we don't have to see your face, it can just be shots of the magazine), which you will be appropriating and which (if any) you will be challenging. You can then highlight key media terminology by adding titles to your imovie. If you have another film editing package (eg movie maker) its fine to do this at home over half term and it will also show you can use another editing package and in your evaluation you can discuss which you preferred and why.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Wednesday 19th October
I have been looking at your blogs and they are of varying quality! Don't forget, its still all to play for to get the Top Blogger badge for this half term. I will let you know the results on the first lesson back after half term.
Work that you need to have completed by the end of half term:
1. Audience focus group profiles.
2. Powerpoint on the history of the UK Music Press (those that I have seen have been far too sketchy).
3. A podcast on the current situation of the music press (in crisis due to general crisis in the press industry & the changing face of the music industry due to the internet). Have blogs taken over from Fanzines?
4. Flatplans for ideas for Front cover, contents and Double page spread.
5. Take initial photos for magazine ( see Ben if you need to borrow a camera over half term, try and meet with someone else over hols to share resources).
This all needs to be uploaded to your blogs by the time we return. You may email me at vcasson@shsg.org if you need extra clarification on this.
To upload powerpoints you can:
1. Create an account with slideshare or
2. Create an account with sliderocket
both of these can be worked on at home or school and can be easily embedded into blogger.
I would suggest using both, then in your evaluation and in Year 13 when you have your Critical Perspectives exam you can discuss which you preferred and why. The examiners really want you to use as many different formats as possible.
Work that you need to have completed by the end of half term:
1. Audience focus group profiles.
2. Powerpoint on the history of the UK Music Press (those that I have seen have been far too sketchy).
3. A podcast on the current situation of the music press (in crisis due to general crisis in the press industry & the changing face of the music industry due to the internet). Have blogs taken over from Fanzines?
4. Flatplans for ideas for Front cover, contents and Double page spread.
5. Take initial photos for magazine ( see Ben if you need to borrow a camera over half term, try and meet with someone else over hols to share resources).
This all needs to be uploaded to your blogs by the time we return. You may email me at vcasson@shsg.org if you need extra clarification on this.
To upload powerpoints you can:
1. Create an account with slideshare or
2. Create an account with sliderocket
both of these can be worked on at home or school and can be easily embedded into blogger.
I would suggest using both, then in your evaluation and in Year 13 when you have your Critical Perspectives exam you can discuss which you preferred and why. The examiners really want you to use as many different formats as possible.
Monday, 10 October 2011
Monday 10th October
Well done for completing the sixth form covers and contents, they look great.
We now need to turn our attention to the Music press.
Today we discussed:
the record industry used to work and why its in crisis today- new technology=means of production & distribution in the hands of the creators, but fall in CD sales means not as much revenue to encourage and fund new music.
Read this article
that explains how falling sales have led to record shop closures.
We also discussed the importance of music in Youth Sub culture
I would like you to read both of these articles and note down at least 3 points that you find of interest onto your blog. You should also provide links to them.
You also need to buy a music magazine that you can scan and annotate. You can't do what we need to do with a download from the internet, you need to look at a magazine, cover to cover.
We now need to investigate the concept of 'audience' in more depth and you need to start thinking about what sort of genre and TA you will be targeting.
We now need to turn our attention to the Music press.
Today we discussed:
the record industry used to work and why its in crisis today- new technology=means of production & distribution in the hands of the creators, but fall in CD sales means not as much revenue to encourage and fund new music.
Read this article
that explains how falling sales have led to record shop closures.
We also discussed the importance of music in Youth Sub culture
I would like you to read both of these articles and note down at least 3 points that you find of interest onto your blog. You should also provide links to them.
You also need to buy a music magazine that you can scan and annotate. You can't do what we need to do with a download from the internet, you need to look at a magazine, cover to cover.
We now need to investigate the concept of 'audience' in more depth and you need to start thinking about what sort of genre and TA you will be targeting.
Monday, 3 October 2011
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