***URGENT coursework assessment for AS and A2 Media students***

UPDATE: AS students
We are well underway with our assessment of your coursework and there is some promising looking work so far.  DO NOT TOUCH YOUR BLOGS!! Doing so could mean that all our assessment is incorrect. You will not get a higher grade, but you WILL get the wrong grade, and potentially affect other people's grade

UPDATE: A2 students
We have started assessing the coursework.  There are some missing parts of the Evaluation for a small number of students, for whom we have NOT agreed and extension. YOU KNOW IF THIS IS YOU. If you have failed to upload any evaluation questions, and have missed the deadline, this HAS BEEN NOTED and marks will be deducted for time management. If this applies to you, you need to email us on medialeyton@gmail.com to explain what you plan to do to fix this problem.  As you should be well aware, the Evaluation is worth 20% of the coursework grade.

Vanessa 15/2/16

G322 TV Drama Sequences

***AS MEDIA STUDENTS: A final chance to improve your music magazine 6th January 2016***

Please attend a workshop on Wednesday 6th January at 2.30-5.30. We will be based in rooms A9 and A10.  Here we will be able to support you in making final improvements to the music magazine, using individual action points. I suggest that ALL AS MEDIA STUDENTS attend this, as  you can all improve your magazines. For some of you, this will make the difference of an A level grade.

If you intend to come along to this workshop, you will have needed to draft your Evaluation over the Xmas break.

Please let us know if you will NOT be able to attend, and we will mark the existing version of your magazine on your blog.

Vanessa, Rob and Amy

Into Film Festival- Workshop with journalist Anna Smith

On 11th November the AS Media students travelled to the new Regent's Street Cinema to attend a talk and workshop with noted journalist Anna Smith. She told us about how she got into journalism, and in particular her experiences as a film journalist for magazines such as Empire, Time Out and Sight and Sound.  She also spoke about her writing for music magazines and women's magazines and gave us invaluable tips on networking, developing a career and journalism, working to deadlines and how to engage an audience.  Leyton students asked a range of interesting questions and impressed Anna with their intelligence and enthusiasm.  Students were able to use this opportunity to help them plan for the journalism they are writing for their own music magazine.

*****AS Media Magazine deadline***** Monday 6th December 2015

Now that you have got audience feedback on your magazines, you have this week to finish the magazines.  The deadline is Monday 6th December. Come along to A26 at lunchtimes if you need to.  The software you need is also available on all other college computers, including those in The Hub.  On Monday we will be checking your magazines are on your blogs, and we will start work on the Evaluation. No excuses!

**New** bookings system for Media resources

Now you should book equipment / space electronically, using the "bookings" tab of the LSC Expressive Arts website

AS Media: Journalism visit 11th November 2015

Please see below the letter with details:

3^rd November 2015

Dear Parent/Guardian

Educational Day Visit to Into Film Festival event:  Journalism Workshop at Regent Street

Cinema on Wednesday 11^th November 2015

As part of your son/daughter’s course at LSC, we are organising the above free educational

visit . The purpose of this visit is to take part in a talk and workshop with a renowned practicing

journalist, as part of the Into Film Festival.  Anna Smith has worked for many years as a journalist,

with a specialism in music  and film, and she will be sharing her expertise with the students. This will

support the work students are doing for their AS Media Studies coursework unit.

Students will need to organise their own travel to meet me at 10.15 am prompt at the venue, and will be accompanied by staff during the screening.  The screening will be held at the Regent Street Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW . Nearest tube station Oxford Circus (Central / Victoria / Bakerloo lines). The event will be finished by 11.45 am, after which time students can make their own way back to college in time to attend their final lesson of the day (if scheduled).

Please return the permission slip below, to me, Amy Hellerman or Rob Dennis, by Friday 6^th November 2015.

Yours faithfully

Vanessa Clyne

Assistant Programme Manager, Expressive Arts(Media)

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