Sunday, 2 March 2014

A2 Media Regulation: understanding the Press Complaints Commission

If anyone believes that the Editor's Code of Practice has been breached, they can complain to the Press Complaints Commission who will decide whether or not there has been a breach.

For the exam, you need to understand the PCC before you can really get to grips with analysing its effectiveness. With that in mind, research the PCC as an institution, using the prompts below to ensure you have what you need...


- What does the PCC do?
- Who are the people that work for the PCC, and are they linked to the industry at all?
- How is the PCC funded?
- History- how long has it been in place, and what did it replace?
 
Please complete by Monday 10th March at the very latest to ensure you're on track!

Friday, 10 January 2014

Evaluation, and luck...

Hi all,

Good luck with getting everything finished off for Monday- everyone's work so far is looking wonderful so I can't wait to see the finished products.

Work hard (it's worth it), but don't panic...! It'll be worth it to relax on Monday night knowing you've done the best you could've done, so put the work in now while you can.

If anyone's panicking that they've lost the evaluation guide, I've copied it in below- email me on eveblakeman@gmail.com if you have any quick questions over the weekend.

Good luck, lovely people!

Miss B


Evaluation: 20 marks
Your evaluation is worth the same amount as your planning, which you worked very hard on. Therefore, you should make sure that you are giving this enough time to ensure you do not miss out on crucial marks through rushing it.
Your evaluation should be presented on a blog, but a separate blog to your research and planning. (In your blog homepage just select ‘new blog’).
You must try to incorporate other media- video, audio, web links, screen grabs etc. Consider perhaps an audio commentary- very effective and considerably better than blocks of writing! You might also do video or audio interviews with your audience for the feedback section.

Your evaluation must cover these four focus questions:

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 your construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Marking criteria for evaluation:

Level 4 16–20 marks
ü  There is excellent understanding of the forms and conventions used in the productions.


ü  There is excellent understanding of the role and use of new media in various stages of the production.


ü  There is excellent understanding of the combination of main product and ancillary texts.


ü  There is excellent understanding of the significance of audience feedback.


ü  There is excellent skill in choice of form in which to present the evaluation.


ü  There is excellent ability to communicate.


ü  There is excellent use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.


Breakdown of Evaluation focus questions:

1.     In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

·         Look at all three texts, with a particular focus on the trailer, and how you met, developed or challenged conventions.

·         Consider both the conscious decisions you made in the design process, as well as the completed text’s effect on the audience.

·         You should refer back to the texts you analysed during the research and planning process, and how these informed your construction.


2.     How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

·         Are your three products clearly linked? What visual clues inform an audience that these are advertising the same film? E.g. character, font, key prop, colour theme etc.

·         Do you think the trailer, poster and magazine cover combine to have the right effect on the audience/strike the right note? AUDIENCE FEEDBACK- results and reflections.

·         Refer back to planning (where you should have analysed trailer/poster combinations) and how this helped you to develop your own.


3.     What have you learned from your audience feedback?

·         AUDIENCE FEEDBACK: ask your target audience a series of open questions to encourage longer responses.

·         Reflections on the audience research you did as part of your planning, considering how this shaped your planning and final products.

·         Recent audience feedback- anything you learned about the way the audience ‘received’ your products compared to the way you intended? Most effective elements?


4.     How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

·         Reflect on how you used all elements of technology- internet, ppt, cameras, photoshop, video cameras, premiere, Facebook (for those who used it for audience research) etc…

·         How did you use them effectively?

·         Any new skills learned?

·         How did you solve any problems met?

 

Friday, 3 January 2014

Blog reminder

Hello wonderful people!

I'm conscious that we're getting to the sharp end of this project now so I wanted to remind you again that your evaluation must be a separate blog to all of your research and planning. The exam board asks for this, so if you've already started your evaluation on your original blog, you will need to set up a new blog URL and copy it over to this. On Monday I'll take down the addresses for these.

You are submitting your finished products on the evaluation blog too- it would make sense to post these as separate posts at the start of your new blog.

I hope you've all had a good break. See you on Monday!

Miss B

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Praise, again

Absolutely awesome planning from you all! Very exciting- keep it up!

Cameras will be available for take-home borrowing from next week, so will produce the borrowing chart in the next few days.

You're all amazing! :-)

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Planning the final practical elements for shooting/photography

Hi Year 13,

Some additional things to do towards your planning! Then it's all done. Start filming and photography as soon as possible- give yourself time to re-shoot if necessary!

Planning to add- one blog post for each of the following:

1) Locations: identify the locations you will use, your reasons for choosing, and any practical info (do you need to inform someone, or get permissio? Any access restrictions to bear in mind? etc).

Take photographs of each location from several angles.

2) Actors: include a photo of each of your actors/models, describe why you chose them, and consider how they add to the representation in your video.

3) Costumes and props: use images where possible, but define the costume and make-up you want your actors to wear, and list props required. Comment on how you're going to get hold of them if it's something you need to borrow/hire/buy.

Any questions, ask me obviously!

Miss B

Sunday, 8 September 2013

Images on a blog

'Original size' photo: Be aware you can change the size of the images you insert into your blog posts, and add captions. Useful if you wanted to create a collage or mood board... Keep the presentation of your planning imaginative! Show, don't tell; images and videos usually preferrable to paragraph after paragraph of text...



'Large' size


 

 
 

Monday, 2 September 2013

Hitting the ground running

Hi all,

I've just been writing a plan for Mr Wilson and myself for this term, and there's a lot to fit in- with that in mind, I thought I'd list the absolute minimum you need to have done to secure a level 3 or 4 (C or above) for research and planning. If there's anything missing from this list, your research and planning list I cannot give you above a level 2 'basic'. None of this is new work, I just thought you could use a checklist to make sure you're on top of everything...

- Researched conventions of the music video genre
- Functions of promo videos
- Conventions of a particular music genre's videos
- Exploration, ideas and inspiration
- Target audience research and reflection (absolutely vital, but very few of you have done this yet!)
- Make a song choice- reflect on reasons, initial ideas etc.
- Lyrics analysis

Looking forward to seeing you all later this week!
Miss B