Deadlines


AS MEDIA Deadlines ** UPDATED PLEASE READ **

Please note the FINAL drafts must be submitted to AQA by 26th January 2017. THIS INCLUDES ALL COMPONENTS OF MEST 2.

Reference to the third platform...

From the mark scheme...

There is effective analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the productions which demonstrates sound understanding of the media concepts and contexts relevant to the work undertaken with clear reference to the third media platform.


Representation help - exemplar paragraphs at the end

Genre Evaluation Exemplar Commentary

See this link for some exemplar commentary that tackles GENRE - note the concentrated use of media terminology

Evaluation - Institution Section

Here are the slides from Mr Rose's INSTITUTION workshop for the MEST2 Evaluation.

  


MEST 2 Overall Evaluation Help

Here is a link to the MEST 2 help sheet - use the prompts to write up your evaluation

AS MEDIA - POST AQA MODERATION

THINGS YOU CAN WORK ON YOURSELF

  • ACTION AS MANY OF YOUR EBIs AS POSSIBLE. CROSS THEM OFF 
  • PLAY SPOT THE DIFFERENCE WITH YOUR STYLE MODEL 
  • ASK YOURSELF, DID I REALLY MAKE VALUABLE USE OF THE TIME GIVEN? 
  • ASK YOURSELF, DID I REALLY DESERVE MORE MARKS? 
  • DO I HAVE ENOUGH CONTENT? 
  • ATTEMPT THE SLIDER TUTORIAL ON BLOG 
  • ENSURE ALL THE OTHER TUTORIALS ARE ACTIONED TO INJECT CONTENT 
  • HAVE I DEVIATED AWAY FROM THE STANDARD EXAMPLES? 
  • HAVE I ADAPTED THE TUTORIALS, SO THE WORK STANDS OUT AS MY OWN? 
  • IMPROVE BANNERS USING NEW MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHY 
  • TLC ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE BLOG 
  • TLC ON ALL ASPECTS OF THE MAGAZINE 
  • TYPE/CREATE SOME MORE REAL WORLD TWEETS 
  • ADD ARTWORK TO MY TWEETS 
  • DO A NEW PHOTOSHOOT FOR MAG OR WEB 
  • PROOFREAD ALL WORK 
  • LOOK FOR ISSUES WITH SPELLING / CAPITAL LETTERS / PIXELATION 
  • FLESH OUT CONTENT USING YOUR RESEARCH 
  • BREAK TEXT DOWN TO MAKE IT MORE READABLE 
  • ADD IMAGES (BOTH ORIGINAL AND FOUND) (20% FOUND. USE SPARINGLY) 
  • IMPROVE PRODUCTION VALUES 
  • LOOK AT THIS STRONG BLOG

THINGS WE WILL HELP WITH

  • ANY EBIs YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND 
  • TECHNICAL TUTORIALS YOU HAVE ATTEMPTED BUT DON'T UNDERSTAND 
  • ONE TO ONES WITH THOSE STRUGGLING, AND WHO REALLY NEED IT

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Exemplar planning items...

Do you flat plans look like this?  They should!

 



Settings to help make your magazine look authentic

Use these settings and fonts to help give your mag that authentic look - link - please feel free to add to this document if you discover any fonts that look suitable

Photoshoot Planning documentation

Make sure that you create the following for your DPS:

1. A photoshoot Plan - link
2. A detailed flat plan of what your DPS will look like - link - no stick men - colour needed - please write headlines in full

Photo shoot ideas

lighting basics and set ups

Article Planning Sheet

Use this sheet to help you plan your article - bullet points acceptable

Examples of double page spreads



To get bigger versions of these pages visit this link

Magazine Media Packs

Use these media packs to help you locate your target audience for your product:

GQ
Cosmopolitan
Menshealth
Spectator
Four Four Four Two

Choose an article to deconstruct

You should choose an article from one of the following magazines to deconstruct. Your deconstruction should be telling you:

1. How to design your page - what column/margin system/page size/page furniture
2. Language style - paragraph length/intro style/level of formality

You should choose a magazine that would feature your campaign:

Health campaigns (drinking, smoking, mental health, body image) - GQ, Cosmo, Menshealth
Fashion campaigns (animal testing, fur, body image) - GQ, Cosmo
Political campaigns (student loans, EU, environment) - Spectator, GQ
Racism -  Four Four Two, spectator, GQ, Cosmo

Target audience considerations


use this link to produce your target audience considerations

Link to Young and Rubicam's psychographics model

Article Deconstruction Instructions

Find your article deconstruction write up instructions here

Website & Blogger Help

Click here for website and blogger tutorials (ongoing)

Writing for the web instructions

Link to the NSPCC website tackled in class

Use these instructions to help you analyse language usage within web products. Link This is assessed planning work - complete to the absolute best of your ability - there are two sections to it.

Once you have completed this research you should write up the actual web content for your campaign website using the advice and analysis given.

Complete this work in Google Docs. Use the research generated earlier in the course to help you develop content.

You should be aiming to write content for four pages - some suggestions:

  • Home - news (old and new), current campaign, how to donate
  • About - a history of your cause, more detailed discussion of aims and objectives
  • Media - create press releases for this section
  • Community/Get active - ways of getting involved, past successes, Twitter feeds



Writing for Web - the key facts



Exploring the Brief...

Look at this finding your project direction document to help you get going and choose the genre you want to work in.

Researching your campaign: research log

Essential Media Concepts




Use this sheet to analyse one of the following: