AS homework

Check you have completed all previous posts/ homework.
Check you have responded to all comments
Research posts on: TA1 mastheads
Checking out the masthead
Locations used in existing magazines
Star images in magazines
Planning posts: Star Image
Embed thinglink dps research

Research DPS 3 - make sure this is really detailed - use ALL knowledge and learning.

Include: images, columns, language, register, semiotics [Barthes] colour, page furniture eg boxes, banners, lines; colour, representations [Dyer/ Mulvey/ Hall/ Perkins] , audience, institutional details, page numbers, pull quotes, stand firsts, drop capitals etc

Planning- initial ideas for photographs for : the front cover, the contents page and the dps.

AS Homework

•Similar product research that is outstanding [ 4 front covers + 2 contents]

• Read and respond to all comments on your blog. 

•Post title : Planning: possible mastheads for my magazine

•Post title: Research contents 3: ensure this one includes language and register. Also make sure you write about the overall layout eg size of images, width of columns – how many columns? Are the images in line with the columns?

•Extension – research dps 2 of your chosen genre

AS Homework

1] Ensure all research posts end with the subheading
How this research has influenced my planning and creativity

-beneath this should be a list of what you have learnt/ what has inspired you

2] post the Research contents page 1 : prezi  [embed it]

3] Complete  front cover research 4
this should be on the genre you have chosen.

4] Post : Initial genre choice
what are the main conventions? Add a screen grab to show each?

5] Check you completed the post : Synergy, links and brand identity
In his one you should have uploaded a front cover and contents from the same issue and listed the conventions used that create a brand and synergy between the pages.

A2 homework

Please ensure that by Tuesday you have posted and completed:

All similar product research of music videos must be completed

•Planning: Beat script

•Planning: Organisation of dates: equipment, actors, budget, locations, props and set design

•Research: TA focus group – initial ideas - 2 posts here -1] images and the activity itself... 2] the uploaded recording plus analysis of findings - please list the changes you now need to make!

A2 homework and study periods work

If you haven’t made a TA profile , do so.

Then consider and make a list of ways you are going to target / attract this audience.

If you have made a slidely – great! But you need to add a list of features beneath it….use this list.

•Age

•Gender

•Race

•Culture

•Demographic

•Lifestyle

•Class

•Concerns

•Aspirations

•Social group

•TA Research 1 – focus group – initial ideas.

6 students [ 3/3] play song explain your ideas for each verse/ image/ narrative and record their responses on your phone. Put this up on the blog via technology eg soundcloud/ Chirbit/Online ConVert

•TA research results and analysis and how this has affected your planning and creativity

MV research/ TA research/ Ancillary research – put into prezi/ emaze/ powtoon/ thinglink/ bubbl.us

ISSUES to address

•Missing similar product research : you should have at least 8. Number your music video research posts. Read and respond to comments.

•Missing research into digipaks/ adverts and the institutions that produce them.

•No beat script

•No full script

•No Carol Vernallis

Post: Research conclusions: codes and conventions

List / copy and paste your findings [ this is why you should have lists]

Refer to: Goodwin, Vernallis, Todoroz, Propp, Dyer, Hall, Blumler & Katz, Perkins etc