Thursday, 3 October 2013

AS Media Studies Homework

This week's homework is to complete the following:

1. Ensure your blog is up-to-date.

2. Take 12 photographs of a model that you have dressed that might be used/useful for the front cover of your music magazine. Make sure that you upload your photos to Flikr.

Due Tuesday 8th October

Miss Gacek

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

AS and A2 Photography Competition

Why not have a go and enter the Sony World Photography Youth Award 2014

You can register as a guest to enter!
Here's the link: http://www.worldphoto.org/competitions/sony-world-photography-awards-2014-youth-award/

Friday, 27 September 2013

AS Homework

Your AS homework this week is to collect a good example from a blog (from Miss King if you were absent on Thursday 26th September) and to annotate the analysis for Media terminology and representations covered in Thursday's lesson (using the glossary of terms).

This is due Tuesday 1st October.

Miss Gacek

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

AS Homework

AS Homework

Ensure your preliminary task is evaluated and your selection and rejection of photographs is also posted.

Friday, 20 September 2013

A2 Homework

G324
All similar product research must be completed by Monday. You will need to ensure that all theory is applied and the links to institutions are made.

You must be ready to move on to securing the History of MV/ Doc, Creating a star image and also Institutional Research
Miss King

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

AS Homework

AS Media Homework


Complete the selection and rejection task [ word doc]
Have a music magazine
If you have your own camera - take more photographs for Thursday! Remember, this must be a medium close up.

Be ready on Thursday to make your front page of the college magazine.

Thursday, 12 September 2013

AS Homework

You need to finish designing your contents page (with its labels and boxes) for your college magazine. This is due in on Tuesday 17th September.
Miss Gacek

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

AS Homework

AS Homework due Thursday 12th September

Complete the plan/ design for your college mag front cover.

Miss King

Monday, 9 September 2013

A2 Media Homework

9th September

Post similar product research to date and add to it from the lesson - audience and purpose. Is this the same as your own?

Ensure your initial ideas is completed.

Miss King

Thursday, 5 September 2013

AS Media Homework

AS Media Homework  - due Tuesday 10th September

Bring in a music magazine of your choice and your digital camera if you have one.

Miss Gacek

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

A2 homework

Complete the ancillary tasks. These must be posted on the blog. Remember to post all drafts as well!
Make sure they are:
1. printed and handed to Miss King
2. saved with Mrs Beasley for submission to the board. 

Deadline Thursday 17th

Miss King

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

A2 Christmas Homework

Ensure any research and planning for ancillary tasks is complete before your return on January 8th.
Miss King

Monday, 17 December 2012

AS Christmas Homework

AS Christmas Homework

Create a ppt for one question : How does your Media product represent particular social groups. 
Due Friday January 11th 2013.

Evaluation Tip - Prezi



Click the link and have a look! Remember - your evaluation is not an essay! You can use many different formats.





Friday, 14 December 2012

AS Homework Due Friday 21st December

All pages of your foundation production must be submitted by Friday 21st December. Your homework must be done in the Media Suite.

You MUST come up to Media to work on these pages in your time.

Miss King


Tuesday, 11 December 2012

A2 Homework

Make sure you are up in Media editing everyday...Deadline: Final film production to be burnt to disc wk beginning Monday 17th December - last chance will be Thursday 20th December.

Additionally - research of ancillaries should be completed and analysed. 
Start planning your ancillary tasks and post any and all drafts. 
Miss King

Monday, 10 December 2012

AS Homework

You will need to come up and use the Media Suite!


  1. Ensure planning is perfect!
  2. Rework, perfect and print/ post the Contents page.
  3. Begin work on your DPS.
  4. I have extended the DPS deadline to 4pm Monday 17th December
Miss King

Thursday, 6 December 2012

A2 Homework

For this homework, you will need to come up to the Media suite.

The homework is editing your music video and documentary.

Please make sure you spend at least another 2 hours a week on this.

Miss King

Sunday, 25 November 2012

Deadlines

As and A2 - remember your deadlines and...
Keep posting!

Taking quality photographs



Mini lessons will start appearing on the linked pages. Please use these as well as the Lessons folder on the Macs

Friday, 23 November 2012

AS Homework



1. Complete all planning

2. Write the text for the DPS - publish and print for next Friday 30th November.

Remember your deadlines! 
In Media you need your time on Adobe making the best quality magazine pages you can. So make sure you organise time in college and at home to do as much as you can to raise your planning mark.

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

A2 production and deadline

1. film schedules
2. storyboards
3. Capturing film on Final Cut
4. Uploading a rough cut to your blog with comments about future editing requirements and sound.

Deadline: filming to be finished : Thursday 29th November
Deadline: Rough Cut to be posted with comments : Thursday 6th December
Deadline: Final film production to be burnt to disc wk beginning Monday 17th December - last chance will be Thursday 20th December.

YOU NEED TO COME UP DAILY AND WORK ON FINAL CUT...


Monday, 19 November 2012

AS G321 deadlines


AS Magazine Deadlines

1. Front cover: Friday 30thNovember
2. Contents page: Friday 7thDecember
3. DPS: Friday 14thDecember

Mrs Beasley will come round and save on the date above. 



Friday, 16 November 2012

AS Homework

See all comments on your blog and edit work
See all previous planning posts.
Ensure all planning is done to the best of your ability.
Upload selection and rejection of photographs. Link to Flickr if you used it for peer assessment.
Publish any drafts of front cover, contents and DPS.
Miss King

Monday, 12 November 2012

AS Homework

See the previous post + you must have the photographs completed for Friday and be ready to upload - select & reject. You must be ready to work on Adobe.
Miss King

Friday, 9 November 2012

AS Homework

Planning Deadline - 1st december

Make sure the following is all completed:
1. All similar product research
2. Institutions and Audiences
3. TA analysis
4. Final Ideas
5. Organisation of actors, props, locations, equipment
6. Photo shoot plans

Take photographs! Remember - different mise en scene: locations, actors, costume and make up.

Next Monday, you should have some photographs to upload and select and reject from.

Extension: post photographs on Flickr

Miss King

Thursday, 8 November 2012

A2 homework

1. Complete all planning including schedules, storyboards [ also see previous hwk post] for marking on 1st December.
2. Using schedules and storyboards film! FILM! FILM!

Make sure you are well organised.

Miss King

Monday, 5 November 2012

AS homework

Ensure the TA research and analysis is complete.

You should be able to update your ideas and finalise decisions.

Friday's lesson - all should be on Photo shoot plans and planning the organisation of actors, locations, props , equipment etc.

On Friday - you will need to sign out cameras for the weekend and begin the photo shoot.

Miss King