Tuesday 5 May 2009

Feedback on evaluation

1. Remember this is a blog so you are expected to make the most of being able to create links to other sites and include images, so use them!
2. Your folders need to be organised more,

frontpage with blog address clearly written
main task
prelim task
evaluation print out
research, focus group and audience feedback print outs labelled

3. Link to results
4. Back up what you are saying eg I used emotive language- like what?
5 PEE- point- example- explanation

6. You have learnt how to blog as well as use CS3 and taking photos!
7. Print outs need to be done properly with no bits sliding off!
8. More research into existing audiences needed, remember men are the main consumers of music magazines, if you are targeting females how and why are you achieving this?
9. Most people needed much more audience feedback. As its a blog, you could even interview your focus group and put a link to a you tube video, the possiblilities are endless, use them!

Wednesday 1 April 2009

The evaluation

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.

Monday 5 January 2009

Deadlines

Thursday 15th January
Music Magazine and school magazines finished and printed out. They must be proof read by me before they are printed out.

Thursday 22nd January
Blog research all up to date.
I would suggest recording an audio version, either on DVD or Podcast before you write your response.
Evaluation questions answered and on blog.

I would also suggest copying your blog to a CD and printing a paper copy in case it disappears between now and next year!

Dealin

Evaluation Questions

The presentation of the research, planning and evaluation may take me rorrn oT anyone, or
combination of two or more, of the following:
• a presentation using slideshow software such as Powerpoint;
• a blog or website;
• a podcast;
• a DVD with 'extras'.
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?
Ideas for the format for the presentation of the evaluation can be found in the Guidance Notes.
The production element and presentation of research and planning may be individual or group
work (maximum group size is four candidates). Where candidates have worked in a group, the
evidence for assessment may be presented collectively but centres will still assess candidates on
an individual basis for their contribution to aspects of the work, from plann ing, research and
produ ction to evaluation.
G321 is marked and internally standardised by the centre and marks are submitted to OCR by a
specified date, a sample is then selected for external moderation. The unit is marked out of a total
of 100 marks: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the
construction: 20 marks for the evaluation.

Tuesday 9 December 2008

Look here for big Magazine publishing houses.

Bauer Media

IPC Media Advertising Case Studies

IPC Media is a leading UK consumer magazine publisher, with a large portfolio of brands, selling over 350 million copies each year. Our magazines reach over 70% of UK women and 50% of UK men – that's over 28 million UK adults.

IPC is owned by Time Inc., the publishing division of Time Warner, the world's largest media organisation. Our publishing businesses are split into five distinct publishing divisions: IPC Connect, IPC SouthBank, IPC tx, IPC ignite and IPC Inspire.

Collectively, the five publishing divisions of IPC produce over a quarter of all consumer magazines sold in the UK.

Click here to find out more

Useful links

Monday 8 December 2008

Up date to deadlines

1. Blog research - Thursday 18th December. Include:
reader profiles, audience surveys, annotation of front covers and a detailed case study ( similar to the handouts we read today) on a music magazine you have purchased and read thoroughly. Use the following headings:
Background and ownership.
Content and approach to music.
Editorial content: 'opinion leaders' and reader interaction.
Promoting the industry and other products.

You should complete your blog with an analysis of the future for music magazines and print publishing in general ( the industry is in a lot of trouble due to the credit crunch and the increasing availability of digital technologies and on line content).

2. Planning of product - Xmas hols.
Flatplans, sketches, photoshoots, interviews, writing copy.

Make use of the holidays and daylight to set up photoshoots and get your copy written.

3. Layout of magazine in Photoshop, audience feedback and completion of evaluation questions. Mid January.

You will have the first week of January to work in class so I can see your progression. Then we will focus on TV drama and there will be no more lesson time for the portfolio.