Friday, 15 February 2013

Plan for half term holiday

Over the next 9 days half term holiday I plan to keep up with my work-load which includes doing revision for the Media Concepts exam in June and continuing with coursework (Horror Trailer and 2 Ancillary tasks)
I will be focusing mainly on Ancillary task 2 which is a magazine cover for the trailer I am creating, shown below is my compelted Ancillary task 1:



Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Trailer opening sequence

This will be the opening sequence of my trailer which will last a total of 2 minutes when completed.

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Potential photos for Ancillary Task 2







 

 

 

Potential background tracks for trailer


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Potential background tracks for trailer


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Production Schedule 2


Monday – No work for media on this day because all students involved in the group are in lessons.
Tuesday
· Photographs for ancillary tasks will be taken during the morning periods to be edited onto our magazine covers
· A scene will be able to be filmed if there is enough time on that morning
Wednesday – Reece will be in lessons, Ryan will be working on IT and Sarah will be able to work on Ancillary tasks.
Thursday – Lessons during the morning periods for all students and the afternoon media lesson is focused on the discussion of British film.
Friday – We intend to all work through filming some key scenes in our trailer and manage to edit that footage into the final project if possible.

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Production Schedule 1


Monday: Intention was to film, but unfortunately the weather has ruined our opportunity because the location was an outside scene, therefore this has to be re-scheduled.

Tuesday: If possible, we would like to be able to edit the footage that we have so far.

Wednesday: Ryan and Reece have an ICT exam, whereas I will be trying to edit more footage during my morning free periods.

Thursday: There will nothing that can be done today as we are all in lessons.

Friday: Ryan and Reece have an ICT exam and I have an English exam but more editing will be done afterwards until home study.

Friday, 11 January 2013

Changes to my AS Music Magazine

This year, I was given the task of improving my AS Music Magazine coursework. After speaking to Mrs Hopkinson about various features of my magazine which needed improvement I decided that it was best to almost completely change the layout of it.

Using a style model which I chose, I completely changed the layout of my front cover using conventions of an alternative music magazine, with simple headings and a large main image, I also changed many of the other headlines on the page.

My contents page needed much improvement in my eyes as it did not hold many conventions of a typcial music magazine, the layout was sparce and didn't look right at all therefore I again completely changed the layout and contents of the page so it looked a lot more professional and well put together such as adding a lot more 'contents' to it and adding larger and smaller stories which the reader could potentially read if the magazine was published.

My biggest task was my main article pages which needed the most improvement. I changed the whole layout of the pages and took new images so it looked even more professional, I kept the contents of the pages the same as it was before as I believe this suited the type of magazine I was creating in the first place which is alternative music thereofore I did not alter the text much, only grammatically improved it.

The style model for my front cover helped me a lot to make my magazine look more professional and hold more conventions of a typical music magazine. The style model I used was Q magazine which is shown here:

AS Music Magazine Improved Version

Front Cover
Contents Page
Article Pages

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Reflection on my Blog so far...

In today's lesson, we looked at each others blogs and gave each other positive and negative feedback. I recieved comments about many aspects of my blog posts.

The positive comments that I recieved stated that I have good use of images whether it is images of inspirations and/or style models or images of props or locations which will be used for filming the project and that I have evidence of planning throughout my project so far.

Some of the nagative feedback I recieved involved going into detail on my blog postsand providing evidence for posts such as images or videos to back up ideas about props or certain camera angles.

To improve upon all of the nagative comments I shall do the following;
  • Go into much more detail in blog posts such as stating specific aspects of project/filming e.g specific locations, props, speech, diegetic/non-diegetic music or sound effects.
  • Always produce evidence of points stated in blog posts such as if a specific location or costume etc. is stated, an image or video will be shown of it if available.
From now on I will attempt to produce detailed blog posts more often (approx. 3-5 per week).