Andrew's AS Media Class: 2012

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Deadlines time!

For Thursday December 20th you must have a fully printed version of your magazine for me to take away and mark over Christmas. This should also be on your blog.

Over Christmas you may add to your blog using your checklist. All blog work including evaluation must be fully completed for Monday 7th January to enable me to have time to mark it all.

As ever, email me at mrhindleteacher@googlemail.com if you need any assistance.

The evaluation questions:

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

Thursday, 25 October 2012

HALF TERM review time.

Greetings everyone,

Half Term is a time to take stock of your progress. Ensure your research is all complete - 3 front pages, 3 contents pages and 3 double pages all analysed.

Add your different versions of your front covers, explaining what you design and the changes you make.

During half term, you should look to make good progress on your double page feature.

Good luck, as ever, the helpline is open 24/7.

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Tasks for Thursday 27th:

Ensure your front page and contents page are uploaded to your blog with explanations of what you have learnt.
Begin to create the name of your magazine, try a series of fonts and save examples of each one you try onto a document as evidence of planning.
Start putting together your magazine front cover. Use the images you have and begin to edit them and start putting them into place.
Fully complete your analysis of at least 3 front covers.

Make sure your blog is full of work so I can check it!

Thank you
Andrew

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Dear everyone,

Very impressed with everyone's positive attitudes today, you are all doing very well so far. I look forward to many more happy lectures with you. Tasks that must be finished for next Thursday:

•Complete your school magazine front cover.
•Complete your school magazine contents page.
•Write a summary of what you expect to see in a school magazine.
•Sketch a flat plan of each of the pages or do it via computer.
•Summarise what you have learnt from this whole process. (Include ideas about Photoshop, taking a photo, editing images, whether you are happy with your design.)
•Upload all of this to your blog.
•Go on to my blog and check yours links in correctly.
•HOMEWORK – bring in at least 3 original images for use in your music magazine next week. The more the better!
•Remember the helpdesk manned 24 hours per day – mrhindleteacher@googlemail.com

Fondest wishes
Andrew

Practice Blog Upload

A lovely picture of the town centre of Preston. The baked potato seller provided me with lunch for a number of years in my youth.

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Deadline for pre-coursework tasks

Tally-ho chaps,

Just a quick reminder of the pre-coursework task of making a school / college magazine front cover and contents page. It's due to be complete and uploaded by Thursday 20th. I'd also like to see your document of what you expect to see on a school magazine and a review of your own on there by then. As I wrote on the PowerPoint today:

•Tasks:

•Write a summary of ideas of what you may expect to see on a magazine front cover and contents page.

•Upload your school photos to the computers.

•Choose an appropriate name and style for your magazine.

•Create your front page and contents page.

•Manipulate your image before adding it to the front cover.

•Produce a flat plan that can be uploaded to your blog.

•Write a summary of your magazine, the programme use and appeal to audience (page 25 useful)

•Link your blog to Andrew’s blog.

•http://andrewsasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/

Fondest regards. Please comment or email me if you need assistance!

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Welcome to AS Media Coursework!

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my blog for AS Media Coursework for 2012-13. Here i'll keep you informed of deadlines to meet and be available to offer support to you.

You should link your blog to mine so I can keep an eye on how you're doing and offer assistance when you need it.

Good luck, it's going to be a marvellous year.

Andrew's AS Media Class