A Level Revision Planner

Here's a link to the planner with interactive links to resources. This will also be on moodle at the top of the page

A2 students: Xmas catch-up

A2s: hopefully you regularly check your student emails, but if not, please check them ASAP. I emailed all of you earlier in the week regarding your blogs. You need to thoroughly go through the blogs during the break, and upload missing tasks as per the email. Any questions, you can email me but please do not use my usual work email as it's unreliable accessing it from home. Use medialeyton@gmail.com [disclaimer: I shall *not* answer emails on Christmas Eve / Day / Boxing Day :-/]
Have a restful break and use the time wisely to go through your blogs. See you in the New Year!
Vanessa

Message to Moderators for AS Media Foundation Portfolio and A2 Media Advanced Portfolio

Dear Moderators
Please use the  menus on the right of this post to find the appropriate page- either AS Media 2016/17 or A2 Media 2016/17.
To make it easier to find the students in the moderation sample, I've emboldened the links to their blogs and added candidate numbers.
Any more questions, please email me on vanessa.clyne@leyton.ac.uk or medialeyton@gmail.com
Best wishes
Vanessa Clyne
Course leader, A Level Media and internal moderator

Level 2 Unit 5/14 - Codes & Conventions for Magazine DPS

Codes & Conventions of Magazine Double Spread Page from Namra Imran

Level 3 Unit 6: Codes and Conventions - Website

General info for codes and conventions of websites:

Website Codes and Conventions from John DF




Codes and conventions > Codes are systems of signs, which create meaning. Codes can be divided into two categories – technical and symbolic. Technical codes are all the ways in which equipment is used to tell the story in a media text, for example the camera work in a film.


Linguistic > Language - the way it is written for its purpose/audience. E.g. Mode of address.


Visual > Layout, images, colours, etc.


Symbolic > Logos, images, signs and symbols which makes the website stand out with it's purpose and target audience.

Level 3 Unit 6: Media Products and their Audiences - Websites

Navigation

Level 3 Unit 6 - Media Products and their Audiences - Websites

Construction of content (narratives, layout, captions, anchorage)




Narratives continued....

Level 2 Unit 4 & 15 Analysing digital publishing products and writing

L3 BTEC Unit 23 Multi Camera Production clips & pics live shoots

Level 2 Unit 13 - Desktop graphics techniques

Tom's demonstration of desktop graphic techniques required for Unit 13: Graphic Design for Digital Media.

Task 3A: Creating desktop graphics

• vector shape tools
• text wrap
• text tools
• picture boxes
• text box
• columns
• transform tools
• page arrangements
• master page
• importing primary images, e.g. from scanners, digital cameras and video
• pixel (image resolution)
• compression: lossy, lossless
• types of digital graphic, e.g. raster, bitmap, vector
• output, e.g. print, screen, worldwide web
• File extensions, e.g. bmp, png, gif, tif, jpg, psd, ai, pdf, indd.

REMEMBER to take screenshots or use 'snipping tool' - save these images as evidence for using these techniques. 

You will also address/annotate your finished product highlighting these techniques.

***A2 Media coursework deadline Friday 10th February***

A2 Media students: This is a reminder that your deadline is tomorrow Friday 10th February by the end of the day.

Jo and I will start to mark your blogs on Saturday morning, so you *may not* edit your blogs after this time, as our marks will be invalid, and this could affect your overall grade, as well as the grades of other students.

Any problems / issues, you need to email us on medialeyton@gmail.com ASAP

Vanessa

International Reggae Context - L2 Unit 13 Graphic Design

Deadline extended to 14th February 2017!!!!

Website; http://www.reggaepostercontest.com/

Brief/contest details; http://www.reggaepostercontest.com/poster-call/vision-brief/

Last year's posters; http://www.reggaepostercontest.com/2015-winners/

Different genres of Reggae music > Unit 13 Graphic Design

Example Poster campaigns - L2 Unit 13 Graphic Design

Example links for campaign websites - L2 Unit 13 Graphic Design

http://lcc.org.uk/pages/campaigns?gclid=Cj0KEQiAiMHEBRC034nx2ImB1J0BEiQA-r7ctobQvEJoL7wikj7dtra_H4ZsvrmtfrcdrEK-9Vq_R-AaAlCk8P8HAQ

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/

https://england.shelter.org.uk/donate/124khomelesschildren?gclid=Cj0KEQiAzsvEBRDEluzk96e4rqABEiQAezEOoB3iGcZtrOtOeUHE_1wGuztURXXMLWsbnbIsiIy2OoIaAtJG8P8HAQ

Examples of Moving Image campaigns - L2 Unit 13 Graphic Design

AS Media Coursework Blog Checklist

Useful site for researching print products for A2 Media

This site for professional designers' portfolios, might be useful for the case studies (Task 8) of CD digipacks and magazine adverts

AS Media: List of common mistakes in music magazines

Please carefully check through this list before Thursday's workshop session (as a reminder, you should be in the workshop, A9 and A10 on Thursday 8th December from 9 to 12.50):

·         Check DPS is on an A3 page

·         Check font size for copy is size 9-12, except for headers

·         Gutters for front cover- are they there?

·         Are fonts consistent throughout the piece, creating a house style? E.g. stick to serif or sans-serif. Do not use both!

·         Is there more than one artist, location, shot type throughout the piece??

·         Branding on contents and DPS- logo / website / page number?

·         Are columns evenly measured on DPS on contents?

·         Pictures on contents page: do they have page numbers on them?

·         Front cover image should almost always be a MCU

·         All pictures must be original (exception: barcodes, QR codes, social media logos)

·         A minimum of 4 images throughout the piece. This is a minimum however and stronger students will have more!

·         Check that colour scheme  complements the photography

·         Proof read all copy for spelling mistakes, typos and sense!

·         Layout – Use space properly (E.g. Cover lines, puffs, etc)

Photos of Media Oscars 2016

Media Oscars photos 2016
Please feel free to share and comment :-)
These should also appear on the college website, and the video of the showreel is to follow in the next few days
Thank you for coming along and we hoped you enjoyed it. We were very proud! Make sure you come to see us and say goodbye before you leave.. and see you on Results day!