Deadline Thursday 14th April

Checklist

Your name and candidate number must be on the top of your blog. Make sure I have the correct link to your blog. You should have a separate link to your school magazine blog.

1. Intro (optional podcast)

2. Final Version of Magazine- images should enlarge when clicked on.

3. Evaluation

4. Audience Feedback

6. Planning and research posts.

Below is the marking criteria I will be using.

Can you tick all these off?

Marking Criteria for the Music Magazine Level 4 48–60 marks

There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills: 

framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate; 

using a variety of shot distances as appropriate; 

shooting material appropriate to the task set; 

selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting; 

manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing; 

accurately using language and register; 

appropriately integrating illustration and text; 

showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design; 

showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size; 

using ICT appropriately for the task set. 

Marking Criteria for the presentation of the research and planning 

Level 4 16–20 marks 

There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience. 

There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props. 

There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding. 

There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning 

Time management is excellent. 

Marking Criteria for the Evaluation 

Candidates will evaluate their work electronically. This MUST contain an element of audience feedback and may be either integrated with the presentation of the research and planning material or may be presented separately 

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are: 

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

How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

How did you attract/address your audience? 

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

Looking back at your preliminary taskwhat do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 

Level 4 16–20 marks 

Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production. 

Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes. 

Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task. 

Excellent ability to communicate. 

Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation 

Article on Youth Sub culture

Have a look here to help you with audience targeting

Evaluation Questions

Evaluation for Print Production

Each candidate will evaluate and reflect upon the creative process and their experience of it. Candidates will evaluate their work electronically, this evaluation being guided by the set of key questions below. This evaluation may be done collectively for a group production or individually. Examples of suitable formats for the evaluation are:

A podcast

DVD extras

A blog

A powerpoint

In all cases, candidates should be discouraged from seeing the evaluation as simply a written essay and the potential of the format chosen should be exploited through the use of images, audio, video and links to online resources. Marks should be supported by teacher comments and may be supported by other forms such as audio or videotaped presentations.

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

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

•How does your media product represent particular social groups?

•What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

•Who would be the audience for your media product?

•How did you attract/address your audience?

•What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

•Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Research and Planning may be presented in electronic format, but can take the form of a folder or scrapbook at AS Level only. Centres should ensure that blogs or other online evidence are easily accessible for moderators, preferably through a central hub or gateway with links to the work of each individual candidate properly signalled with candidate numbers.

11th January Deadlines and Tasks

Ok, we need to get this finished off. Here is what you need to do:

1. Complete your magazine pages and print them off.
2. In our long double lesson next Monday 17th we will conduct an audience feedback session.
3. You need to prepare for this by having your magazine printed off, along with a list of questions you would like your target audience to answer.
You will each take it in turns to answer the questions and be filmed discussing each others productions.
4. You will edit the footage and upload it onto your blog.
5. It should look something like this

We will then put the productions to one side for a month or so to focus on the UK Film Industry.
When you have some distance from it, we will then reconsider it for your evaluation.

Double Page Spread

Points to remember:

1. In terms of layout the most important thing to remember is the sense of proportion. You could fit 6 columns of text across an A3 spread.
2. You want a sense of the brand identity flowing throughout your magazine.
3. Use the exact typography of your title as a brand identity on all your pages.
4. Have a variety of images taken on different locations and with different clothes, you may only use 2 live performance images.
5. Think in terms of 'Representation'. How are you representing your artist or group?
Old, established icons?
New, groundbreaking artists?
Sex symbol?
Boy/girl next door?
6. This visual representation should be continued in the copy that you write. Are they a serious artist or are they more of a pop/celebrity artist? Will you use a pun or play on words in your title that sets the tone of the article?
7. Who is your target audience? What do they want to read about in the article? What sort of language would they expect to read? Chatty colloquialisms or specialist, referenced language?
8. Does the magazine as an institution have an on going relationship with the artist? Is there an enticement, free, cd, or tour to promote? Are they in awe of the artist or is there a sense of criticism within the representation.