KBA Music Video 2015

Coursework Completion Tasks

As you are already aware, you need to have your work completed and ready for marking by 6pm on Friday 8th May.

Please ensure that you read and follow the instructions below:

TASK 1

Ensure that all Research, Planning and Construction evidence is correctly and clearly labelled via individual blog post titles.

Remember that this should be the case for all 3 pages of your blog : Music Video, CD Digipack and Music Magazine Advertisement.

Your blog should show a journey from the start of the year to your completed film products.

Think about the 4 key words in relation to all of your posts - are they minimal, basic, good or excellent? You need the majority of posts to be good or excellent!

TASK 2

Your completed music video, CD Digipack and Music Magazine Advertisement must be available to view on your blog and clearly titled as the finished product.

Word these as follows:

"Run" Jasmine Thompson Completed Music Video (embedded from Youtube)
"Run" Jasmine Thompson Completed CD Digipack (embedded as a .jpeg file)
"Run" Jasmine Thompson Completed Music Magazine Advertisement for X Magazine (embedded as a .jpeg file)

TASK 3

Your evaluation should follow your embedded music video on the main page of your blog. This must be posted in question order (1-4).

I will take some photos of you all delivering your presentation to include on your blog.

TASK 4

You must hide all of the comments that are on your blog.

In order to do this go to DESIGN mode for your blog and click on Settings.

Click on Posts and Comments

Click on the drop down menu next to Comment Location (as shown below) and select Hide.

Make sure you click on Save settings before you leave the page.

TASK 5

The last task for you to perform on your blog is to delete the link to my blog! This is important - please do not forget.

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Advanced Portfolio Evaluation

Media Studies Advanced Portfolio

Evaluation

Your evaluation is worth 20% of the marks for your Advanced Portfolio
Your evaluation MUST be ‘media-rich’ (have lots of images, links, video, etc.)
Each question should be answered using a different means – Prezi, Powerpoint, etc are fine but you could do something inventive such as a director’s commentary….

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

In what ways do your music video, CD digipack and music magazine advertisement use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real music videos, CD digipacks and music magazine advertisements?
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
How did you use media technologies in the construction, research and planning and evaluation stages? (Youtube, Slideshare, Prezi, Survey Monkey, Adobe Photoshop, cameras and equipment, etc)

You can access exemplar blogs provided by OCR. CLICK HERE to see these.

It is the 3 candidates below whose work you should look at.

Marks awarded for these (out of 20) were as follows:

G = 17

H = 16

J = 10

If you scroll to the bottom of the OCR page you can see the moderator's comments for each one.

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Coursework : What Is Your Plan?

We have discussed the next 5 months in class today so that you have an awareness of when key dates and deadlines are.

Copy and paste the calendar below into your blog and let me know what your plan is for completion of your coursework tasks by Friday March 27th.

Adobe Photoshop Links

Now you are starting to construct your CD Digipack and Music Magazine Advertisement I thought I would share some useful links with you.

This first link allows you to download an older version of Photoshop (CS2 as opposed to CS6 which we use in school).

www.redmondpie.com/download-adobe-photoshop-cs2-for-free-legally-while-you-still-can/

This second link will take you to Adobe's free trial download page. You can download a trial version of CS6 for 30 days.

Click here

http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads.html

Click on the link below to be taken to Adobe's online tutorials for Photoshop CS6. Very useful.

Click here

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-cs6/

If you want some extra support relating to creating amazing type effects you could do worse than look at the link below and the tutorials provided by Designrfix.

Click here

http://designrfix.com/resources/100-photoshop-cs6-tutorials

Moving Forwards - What Needs To Be Done?

As we move forwards from term 2 into term 3 can you please ensure that the following tasks are completed by the time we return to school in January:

Music Video

All research and planning completed so that production work (filming) can be undertaken in the month of January.

This should include your casting, location planning, costume planning, planning for miss-en-scene and consideration of lighting requirements.

Make sure that posts are clearly labelled for this and that they include detail and links to target audience.

CD Digipack

All research completed (including work on existing CD digipacks and their codes and conventions) so that you can move forward into the planning and construction of your own CDD design in January.

Music Magazine Advertisement

All research completed (including work on existing music magazine advertisements and their codes and conventions) so that you can move forward into the landing and construction of your own MMA in January.

Remember to keep checking your CDD and MMA posts for comments from me.

When we return in January we will use 2 lessons per week (Mondays) for coursework and the other 3 for exam work in relation to the collective identity section of the examination.

How Good Is Yours?

You can access OCR's moderation hub by CLICKING HERE. Once there you can access the blogs for the 3 candidates and look at there research and planing, construction and evaluations

There are 3 candidates work to look at. I have pasted a screenshot for each on below together with the marks awarded.

Research : Conventions of Music Magazine Advertisements (MMAs)

Once you have researched music magazines and identified the magazine that you think your artist's album would be most likely to be advertised in, you can go on to research the conventions of music magazines advertisements.

Look at a selection of mmas in order to identify and analyse conventions on a wider basis to begin with - use advertisements for albums from multiple genres.

Your analysis of these mmas needs to show that you have thought carefully about the purpose and effect of different aspects of a music magazines design. For example, think about the following:

Artist's name - placement? font style? font size? colour? relationship to other aspects of the mma? relationship to the artist's image and visual presence elsewhere? (ask if you don't understand...)

Album title - placement? font style? font size? colour?

Image(s) - what is usual? is the artist's image more likely or less likely to be used? could this change according to genre? What other sorts of images are used and do these reflect the genre of the artist?

Other - what else could be included? why choose to include these things? how do they support the promotional nature of an mms?

Remember that you are focussing on Conventions at this point.

Here are some advertisements for albums that you could use:

Research - Music Magazine Media Kits

Most magazines produce media kits or press kits for prospective advertisers - these allow them to promote themselves and for advertisers to commission advertisements in the most cost-effective and targeted manner.

Here are some for you to look at and use when deciding on the right magazine for advertising your artist's album.

Mojo

Media Kit Click Here