Important Notice To All A level Media Student Bloggers And Vloggers

Due to certain restrictions within the blogger site videos often fail to upload or do not playback. To resolve this issue you should create a youtube account, upload the videos there and then when uploading videos to your blog simply use the upload from youtube option. This seems to be the most reliable way of getting videos up.
I appreciate that it means you have to create a youtube account but it is just more evidence of the way Google is becoming an ever more dominant force in our lives!
It's all synergetic relationships you know!
Good luck and happy blogging!
Mr. White

Year 12 Foundation Portfolio Evaluation

The deadline for the evaluation (and therefore the whole of the foundation portfolio) is Monday 23rd April - 17.00hrs.
The key questions that must be adressed are as follows:

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?

IMPORTANT:

The evaluation must not be presented as an essay. Rather use a variety of techniques to address the questions. You could include annotated examples of your own work and existing work, planned (but unscripted) pieces to camera where you analyse the work or get others to give you feedback (video clips should not be high quality and no longer than 45 seconds each), hyperlinks to relevant websites, images which illustrate your points.

Where you do make written entries they must be focused, analytical and use appropriate media language and where relevant refer to the theories we have discussed in class (reception theory and uses and gratification theory).

The following website will help you get some ideas of what is considered to be a good blog; http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/g321-as-coursework.html

Your final blog entry must contain your final pieces (magazine front cover, contents page and double page article).
Mr. White

Year 12 Foundation Portfolio Production Deadline

By The end of today (Monday 16th April) all students must have submitted their final magazine productions. Work must be presented in a blue document folder. Each page must be in a separate plastic pocket.
Students must complete a cover page with the relevant information following the template which can be found in  L:\Media Studies\A Level\G321 Foundation Portfolio the document is called G321 Frontsheet.

Failure to meet this deadline will result in a 10% reduction in the final mark.
Mr. White