Evaluation questions

Apologies for those of you who have been driven mad trying to find these - I honestly thought I had posted them!!!

Anyway, these are the questions that must be addressed in your evaluation - and remember to make it as creative as possible!

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Good luck with this folks! An example of an evaluation can be found here

Reminder: new deadline date is Friday 22nd January - all work to be completed and blog closed!

Really useful guide to film-making!

Here:
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/camera/tutorial/

More links to music sites

Not having any luck with your soundtrack? The answer may well be here...

http://www.garageband.com
http://www.epitonic.com
http://www.opsound.org
http://ccmixter.org
http://www.sectionz.com
http://www.dmusic.com
http://www.podsafeaudio.com
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://www.dance-industries.com
http://www.danosongs.com
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/music.php

Try them and see - some will ask you to register.

DEADLINE DATES!

The following dates are for your benefit and what you should be working towards in order to maximise your grades. The mark for planning and research will reflect your ability to meet these deadlines!

Main Task - Moving Image or Print:
Shooting deadline/images taken - 16/10/09
Rough cut/initial layout and design - 23/10/09
Final deadline for main task - 13/11/09

Ancillary Products Deadline - 4/12/09

Evaluative commentary draft - 11/12/09
Completed evaluation - 18/12/09

Note: you must use the booking system correctly and return all equipment on time. Failure to do so will result in you not being able to borrow equipment at a later date. Other year groups will also be doing practical coursework at this time, so you need to be organised.

* All blogs will be closed at the end of the day on 18/12/09 - nothing posted after this time will be considered towards your mark.

Analysing newspaper layout

A simple guide can be found here

and here

Links to Teaser Trailers

Check these out and note the difference between them and theatrical trailers (which will not yet be available for some films!)

Alice in Wonderland

Toy Story 3

2012

Teaser Trailers

some examplar textual analysis

Examples of how to analyse your media texts can be found here

Radio advertising

useful link to information on radio advertising
click here
Radioville - UK advertising company
click here

A reminder of the briefs

Pay particular attention to the evaluation questions and ensure that your research and planning are guided towards being able to answer them.

Mrs H x

click here for briefs

To get you started...

All blogs are now active for the A2 session and you can begin merrily blogging to your heart's content!Your first entry should really be a statement of intent or a pitch (whichever you find easiest)- help sheets will be available to take you through the research and planning phase.

Mrs H :)

A2 coursework starts here!

COURSEWORK DEADLINE - ALL WORK TO BE FINISHED BY THIS DATE - FRIDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2009!

Mrs Horne x

New blogs

You will all be thrilled to know that your new group blogs have been successfully created and appear in alphabetical order over on the right hand side. Get to it troups!
Mrs H :)

Short Film Practical task

Hi guys and welcome back!
You should notice that today's groups have been added to the blog, so you can crack on with this practical task asap.
Happy blogging!

Link for TV editing

Can't seem to access my Outlook stuff from home so don't have email addresses at the moment and will post links here which might be of some use.
this first one is for an AS student blog which you may find of interest. click here
the next one has some areas you may not have considered. click here

Video posts

Just to let you know that your opening sequences are being posted onto YouTube and links will be created through your blog. if you wish to view them on Youtube they are under westhatchmedia.
Happy viewing!

Coursework congratulations!

Well done to all of you who made the deadline with time to spare - hopefully those of you who were working right up until the last moment have learned something for next time! I will be posting your finished work onto your blogs over the next few days (well those of you who haven't already done so!)so take a gander at what other people have achieved! The appropriate preliminary work will also be posted, just bear with me.....

How not to store the laptops!

Evaluation Questions

click here

Progress

It seems that many of you are cracking on really well with your research and planning, but you should all be moving towards the next stage - actually putting your ideas together based on your analysis of real media products! So, get storyboarding and drafting to see your ideas take shape.

Remember to keep your blogs up to date and to name any post that you are individually responsible for! You don't want someone else getting the credit for all of your hard work!

Those of you using scrapbooks still need some form of electronic record, even if it is just a list of tasks set and your own group deadlines.

Happy days!

Opening Sequence of Top Gun

This might help you with your analysis of opening sequences.