Final Blog Checks...

OK everyone, we are VERY nearly there

Moderation is taking place on Monday 9th May, so your blogs MUST be closed by 3pm on Monday 9th

Over the weekend please do the following:
- proof read your blogs for spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors
- check your labels are clear
- move your music video, digi pak, advert, evaluation Qs 1-4 to the top of your blog (in this order!)

Answer the past exam Q - bring to Wednesday's lesson to be marked

Come and find me if you have any questions or probs
See you soon...

The Last Push

Hi all,

Hope you had a fab Easter. Time is now running out fast - your music vids and blogs will be moderated on Monday 9th May, so you need to prepare by Wednesday 4th May...

Your last posts on your blog need to consist of the following, so when the examiner opens your page to mark your work he sees:

• Your final music video


• Your final digi pak


• Your final magazine advert


• Your evaluation

Make sure you've answered all questions for the evaluation (see posts below for details). If you have any questions find me I'll be in O8 on Tuesday morning p1&2

Good luck!

See you soon

A quick hello and...

...well done to those of you who are keeping on top of your blogs over the Easter hols

Special 'shaout aout' goes to Emily Bullen and Molly who've been updating their blogs recently this week. EmmaK, I like the way you've displayed your audience feedback and used lots of photographs and images in your blog to enhance the text catch the examiner's eye.

I'm sure the rest of you are busy beavering away writing and filming your evaluations so I'm not tooooo concerned. Yet. BUT, those of you who've not updated your blog for a while need to need to get some posts up - especially if you haven't added anything since early March!!

I know I'm nagging but those A grades and university places are within reach now...don't let it slip!

If you're not sure what you have to do....see posts below

EASTER REVISION

Hi all,

I am SO PROUD of all of you. Your final music videos are outSTANDing and you thoroughly deserve the rapturous praise received from the audience yesterday afternoon. We've never had such a successful event, so well done to all of you!

Now for the Easter tasks. Simples but VERY importants that you do them

1. Answer the evaluation questions. WORTH 20 MARKS OF YOUR FINAL GRADE

(See post below for list of Qs if needed). Look online at other students' evaluations for inspiration (eg fahminaali.blogspot.com)

2. Upload audience feedback --> eg in a wordle (http://www.wordle.net/) or prezi

3. Revise / complete essays

4. Proof read blog posts for spelling / punctuation errors

THE DEADLINE FOR YOUR EVALUATION IS WEDNESDAY 4TH MAY. YOU MUST ATTEND THIS LESSON, AS ALL BLOGS MUST BE CLOSED ON FRIDAY 6TH MAY AND I NEED TO RUN THROUGH SOME LAST REQUIREMENTS FROM OCR EXAM BOARD WITH YOU

ps Oh, and you must also find time to RELAX and UNWIND to RECHARGE your batteries as well as complete the above!!

See you on the other side of the hols,

Miss P

Well Done You

Girls! Just seen your latest edited videos on your blogs - they look fanTAStic!! Well done you. Keep up the editing-hard-work and upload your vid onto your blog if you haven't already. We're on the last push now: only one week to go... Catch up on Friday

Evaluation of your Music Videos

KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES -->
DEADLINE FOR EVALUATION: WEDNESDAY 4TH MAY
DEADLINE FOR BLOGS CLOSED: FRIDAY 6TH MAY


TASK: You need to evaluate and reflect on the creative process and their experience of it. The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:

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 tasks?
3) What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4) How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

WHICH MEDIUM WILL YOU CHOOSE TO EVALUATE YOUR PRODUCTION? Choose a combination of the following:

- PowerPoint presentation
- Short film, uploaded to YouTube
- Essay style, blogging
- Images and annotations on blog

The choice is yours but the more creative the better!

Examples we looked at in lesson are:

From OCR: http://musicvideoalexanderwhitcombe.blogspot.com/
From YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_udTjIydLE
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a2+media+evaluation+questions&aq=f
http://a2mediaparkesm.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html


The marking grid is below:

Moderation Marking Criteria for your Evaluation

Level 4 16–20 marks

There is excellent understanding of the forms and conventions used in the productions
There is excellent understanding of the role and use of new media in various stages of the production.
There is excellent understanding of the combination of main product and ancillary texts.
There is excellent understanding of the significance of audience feedback.
There is excellent skill in choice of form in which to present the evaluation.
There is excellent ability to communicate.
There is excellent use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.


Eight key concepts of media literacy you can refer to in your evaluations

1. All media is constructed The media do not present simple reflections of external reality. Rather, they present carefully crafted constructions that reflect many decisions and result from many determining factors. Media Literacy works towards deconstructing these constructions, taking them apart to show how they are made.
2. The media construct reality The media are responsible for the majority of the observations and experiences from which we build up our personal understandings of the world and how it works. Much of our view of reality is based on media messages that have been pre-constructed and have attitudes, interpretations and conclusions already built in. The media, to a great extent, give us our sense of reality.
3. Audiences negotiate meaning in the media The media provide us with much of the material upon which we build our picture of reality, and we all "negotiate" meaning according to individual factors: personal needs and anxieties, the pleasures or troubles of the day, racial and sexual attitudes, family and cultural background, and so forth.
4. Media have commercial implications Media Literacy aims to encourage an awareness of how the media are influenced by commercial considerations, and how these affect content, technique and distribution. Most media production is a business, and must therefore make a profit. Questions of ownership and control are central: a relatively small number of individuals control what we watch, read and hear in the media.
5. Media contain ideological and value messages All media products are advertising, in some sense, in that they proclaim values and ways of life. Explicitly or implicitly, the mainstream media convey ideological messages about such issues as the nature of the good life, the virtue of consumerism, the role of women, the acceptance of authority, and unquestioning patriotism.
6. Media have social and political implications The media have great influence on politics and on forming social change. Television can greatly influence the election of a national leader on the basis of image. The media involve us in concerns such as civil rights issues, famines in Africa, and the AIDS epidemic. They give us an intimate sense of national issues and global concerns, so that we become citizens of Marshall McLuhan's "Global Village."
7. Form and content are closely related in the media As Marshall McLuhan noted, each medium has its own grammar and codifies reality in its own particular way. Different media will report the same event, but create different impressions and messages.
8. Each medium has a unique aesthetic form Just as we notice the pleasing rhythms of certain pieces of poetry or prose, so we ought to be able to enjoy the pleasing forms and effects of the different media.

KEY DATES

KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY


FINAL DESIGN FOR YOUR MAGAZINE ADVERT UPLOADED AND ANALYSED BY Wednesday 16th March

ALL EDITING FINISHED BY Wednesday 6th April

BLOGS CLOSED BY Friday 6th May


Homework due in for next week: Wednesday 9th March.

Bring in your essay on a memory stick so we can improve it in the lesson

"Describe and evaluate your creativity skills development from AS to A2"