Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Photograph Manipulation

You must use photographic manipulation software (Photoshop) in your production work. By the end of your coursework you must be able to evidence the use of image manipulation (like to image to the right). Remember to save screen grabs / print screen as you go along, and each lesson add new entries to your production log.

Research and Planning

Ensure that you evidence the following on your blog.
I have included some suggestion for you:

Level 4 16–20 marks
• There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience.
- Front cover, contents page and double page spread analysis
- Audience questionnaires, graphs with summative comments on findings, audio recording of focus groups.

• There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.
- Keeping a production log with comments on setting and achieving deadlines.
- Images of key mise-en-scene you with use in your production. e.g. photographs of who you will be using in your production.
- Screen grabs of emails to evidence planning.

• There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.
- Digital photographs of plans / sketches for your production work. Include a brief description (written / audio) to help explain your ideas.

• Time management is excellent.
- Setting deadlines / targets on production log and commenting on whether you have met them.

• There is excellent use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation.
- Use a variety of digital technologies on your blog - audio files, digital photography, slide shows, PDF files.

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Audio File


Once you have conducted your focus group interviews and uploaded / edited them on Adobe Audition you will upload them to an online storage space (edublogs.tv is free to join) and then paste the embed code into blogger.

Friday, 12 February 2010

Intertextuality








An intertextual reference is where one media text (photograph, film, tv show) reminds the audience of another media text. For example the image of Janet Jackson on the front cover of Vibe magazine may remind the audience of the Off The Wall album cover that her brother appeared on. However, only audiences who are familiar with the album cover would get the reference.

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Monday, 1 February 2010