Current Logos

Like Print there are some very good logos being produced:

Jonny Ainsley has even produced a YouTube Video of his logos:

Current Photoshoots

There are some really good shots been taken by current AS students:

INTERIM DEADLINE

ALL STUDENTS SHOULD HAVE ROUGH CUTS OF THEIR WORK COMPLETED BY MONDAY 5TH MARCH. YOU WILL RECEIVE WRITTEN FEEDBACK IN CLASS - THE TEACHER WILL SPEAK TO EACH STUDENT INDIVIDUALLY.

ONCE YOU'VE RECEIVED YOUR FEEDBACK SCAN IT INTO YOUR BLOG AND MAKE A BULLET POINT LIST IN A NEW POST (ROUGH CUT FEEDBACK) OF HOW YOU INTEND TO IMPROVE YOUR WORK.

Updating your blogs

Photoshoots
Remember to create posts for photoshoots - upload your photoshoot images and annotate them, outlining the strengths and weaknesses of each shot. Try to refer to your textual research and compare your work to that of professional practice.

Images of me filming

Both print and moving image producers should upload images of themselves filming and taking photographs to act as evidence of your construction.

Updated Shooting Schedules

Moving Image should log the time codes of each of the shots made on your original shooting schedules and then re-scan them into your blog.

Screenshots

Remember to take regular screen shots:

Print Potential post titles - Front cover construction, contents construction & DPS construction

Moving Image Potential post titles - Soundtrack construction, Logo construction, Film Opening construction.

Make sure that you annotate screen shots, stating what features of the software you've been using.

PREVIOUS STUDENT PHOTOSHOOTS

PHOTOSHOOTS

People have started their shoots and what I'm noticing is that images are SAFE.

Remember this is a music magazine. You need to be thinking about your mise-en-scene:

Hair styles - do they match the genre? take inspiration from current artists and bands

Make-Up - again is it safe should you be thinking about elaborate make-up to match the genre?

Costume - don't shoot in normal college clothes - would you go out dressed in your college wear -NO - so glam up for the shoots.
Below are some ideas for inspiration and some previous student work follows.

Front Cover Images:

For Double Page Spreads how about:

MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING IT RESEMBLES PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.

Mon 20th Feb

You should start this week with a progress update post. In this post you should include the following:

There are 6 weeks until the Easter break which means - 6 weeks of lesson time to complete my foundation portfolio.

There are 60 marks available for construction and 20 marks for Research and Planning and 20 marks for evaluation - 100 marks in total

To achieve a grade:

A I need to get 80 marks

B I need to get 70 marks

C I need to get 60 marks

To be in level 4 (grade A/B) my work must demonstrate excellence throughout.

By Monday 5th March I should have a rough cut of my products

By Monday 19th March my products should be completed

From Monday 19th - Friday 30th March I will be working on my 7 evaluation questions.

The my completed portfolio should be submitted for formal marking on Monday 16th April. I should use the Easter break to make any minor amendments to my work.

In order to meet these deadlines I will:

(insert your own action plan here)

Draft R&P feedback

Once your receive your draft research and planning feedback you should create a new post:

Draft marking

.....scan in your feedback sheet.
Then write a short paragraph underneathe the feedback which outlines changes that you intend to make to your work and how you intend to do this.

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RESEARCH & PLANNING DEADLINE

THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ASPECTS OF RESEARCH & PLANNING IS

FRIDAY 10TH FEB 2012

Work will be marked over half term - NO EXCUSES ACCEPTED! so don't try.

Remember to refer to the level 4 exemplar blogs!!!!!!!

REMEMBER ROOM 722 WILL BE OPEN ON TUESDAY AND THURSDAY TILL 5:30.

Print should have the following posts in their blog by Friday:

2. Textual Analysis Prezi

3. Secondary Audience Research with write up of who, specifically, the target audience is.

4. Primary Audience Research - Questionnaire & Focus group with detailed write up of findings and how they will influence the product you create.

5. Institutional Research - write up of the companies involved in the production and distribution of your product and how their status affects the product. Also you'll need to include a write up of the stages of production involved in creating a music magazine and the job roles associated with each stage. Higher marks will be awarded for students who acknowledge how this will affect them (what roles they will take on and the skills they need).

6. Inspirational Photography Analysis

8. Mood Board of other inspirational images with annotation

9. Planning Article

10.Flatplans (with supporting rationale, justifying the design choices made - the connotations of this and how it will appeal to the intended audience)

11. Assesment of Flat Plans and Write up of Improvements I need to make

12. Article Planning

13. Recce of Location

14. Risk & Hazzard Assessments

15.Call Sheets

16. Model Release Forms

17. Evidence of me organising costume, Props & Make-Up (Images of me collating the equipment, images of me testing make-up and costumes on friends)

18. Test Shots (Photographs of practiced poses for Cover, contents & DPS)

Filmers should have the following in their blogs:

2. Textual Analysis Prezi – emphasis on TITLES!!

3. Secondary Audience Research with write up of whom, specifically, the target audience is.

4. Primary Audience Research

5. Institutional Research- write up of the companies involved in the production and distribution of your product and how their status affects the product. Also you'll need to include a write up of the stages of production involved in creating a music magazine and the job roles associated with each stage. Higher marks will be awarded for students who acknowledge how this will affect them (what roles they will take on and the skills they need).

6.Inspirational Image Analysis

7. Research into Logos

8.Storyboards

9.Animatic

10. Shooting Schedules / Shot List

11. Recce of Location

12. Risk & Hazzard Assessments

13. Call Sheets

14. Model Release Forms

15. Researching Sound and making sound (screen shots + .mov of MP3)

16. Sketches of potential logos you’ll make in Photoshop

17. Any test footage that you've taken

Developing Logos

Moving Image Producers should scan in any sketches of logos that they've made, along with screen shots of them making the logos in photoshop.

When producing logos, in photoshop, set your page to the following:



Check out a level 4 response:

http://aidanrobson.blogspot.com/2011/03/final-production-editing-intertitles.html

Planning Sounds

Moving Image should create a post that outlines the types of sound they intend to use.

Then take screen shots of producing sounds, as tests, in garage band and import the MP3 version into your blog.

Model Release Forms

You should get your models to sign model release forms. They can be found on the IDrive.
Once signed scan them into your blog.

Call Sheets

All students should complete call sheets for every model that they intend to use in their production.

However, you could do your call sheets like this

http://chloespears.blogspot.com/2011/02/model-call-sheets.html

HOMEWORK: Hazzard & Risk Assessments

You should complete risk assessments for all of the locations that you intend to film/photograph in.
Below is the document that you should complete and either scan in or turn into a JPEG.

ALternatively you could do your recce and assessments combined

http://aidanrobson.blogspot.com/2011/02/recce-of-location.html

HOMEWORK: Recce of location

For homework all students (print & moving image should complete a recce of location)

Basically, you need to take shots of the locations that you intend to use for your photography and filming. Next to each shot you should provide a discussion about it's suitability and relation to the genre.

You can use the following proforma and then scan it into your blog or save as a .PDF - open in Photoshop or Preview and save as a .JPEG.You will then be able to import it into your blog.



You can find the template on the Idrive - AS/A2 materials - advanced portfolio - planning.

Alternatively you could use text and images in a post, so long as you cover all the things asked for in the document above.

Moving Image: Animatics

Moving image students should now be in a position to film each shot of their storyboard and do a rough edit of it, applying the appropriate transitions. This should then be exported as a .mov, uploaded to YouTube and embedded into your blog.

Below is an example of an animatic.