Homework due Jan 10th

Complete all of your research and planning tasks.
Finish taking your pictures and have them ready for the first lesson back.

Example 3

Example 3

Example 2

Example blog

Example blog

Homework due 6th December

Complete audience research from today. To do this properly you will need to spend quite a lot of time researching.

Don't forget to put videos, pictures, screen grabs from websites etc on your blog to make it more interesting!

Overdue Tasks due Friday 6th December

Research Questions

• Vesa
• Kai
• Arfaat

Target Audience (page 2 in research booklet)

• Ruth
• Kai
• Arfaat

Mood Board (title)

• Emon
• Arfaat

Mood Board (font)

• Kai
• Emon
• Arfaat

Photo plans

• Tahmina
• Emon
• Kai
• Arfaat

Case Study

• Kai
• Arfaat

OCR Words of advice

OCR Helpful Advice

THE IMPORTANCE OF FEEDBACK

After reading through your evaluations it is clear that not many of you actually got any feedback on your magazines so there is no evidence of which decision were successful or not.

Remember you are not creating magazines for yourselves-the success of your magazine depends on whether or not people actually want to read it or not- you will only know this if you ask people their opinions.

Class and homework for this week and next. All tasks due Friday 29th November.

Tasks

• Finish research questions
• Complete page 2 (target audience) of magazine research booklet
• Create a mood board of different titles for your magazine (even if you have already chosen it) and get audience feedback (at least 5 different people). Use social media as much as possible to get feedback and screen grab the results (but please don't make yourself vulnerable by putting your name or links to facebook etc on your blog). Twitter is a good medium to use if you have an account.
• Explain your choice of title and say why you chose it.
• Once your title has been chosen do the same as above but for a range of fonts.
• Explain your choice of font and why you chose it.
• Plan your photographs (see magazine research booklet for ideas of how to do this). Draw sketches of what you want your photos to look like, upload these onto your blog and justify your decisions.

pinterest.com/mashleah/font-poster-mood-board/

PUT EVERYTHING ON YOUR BLOGS BY MONDAY WITHOUT FAIL

Magazine research link

Circulation figures

Overdue homework due Monday

Ruth
Vesa
Kai
Arfaat

Homework/Class work due 15th November

Case study on a magazine:

• background and ownership
• style/layout/mode of address
• content and approach to music
• promoting the industry and other products

Evaluation

Year 12 - Evaluation

Homework over half term

You need to:

Please use this as a checklist.

• Complete all preliminary tasks (see earlier post for details)
• Ensure everything is uploaded on your blog
• Edit/add to any posts which are lacking in depth. For each post have you?
• analysed the content you have posted (pictures, magazine front covers, contents pages, mastheads titles, audience research etc)
• what choices have you or the designer made?
• why did they/you make those choices?
• what is effective about those choices?
• Update your weekly journal
• What have you done each week?
• What went well?
• What do you need to improve?
• How are you going to apply this to your next project?
• Come to the first lesson back with a chosen genre of music and a name for your music magazine

Additional homework if you have finished the above:

• Design and carryout a questionnaire for your music magazine
• Research the music magazine industry-
• who are the main publishing houses?
• how many magazines are sold each week?
• how does the magazine editing team market their product?
• which are the most successful magazines? Why are the they successful?

Homework due 25th October

Look at your individual mark sheets and complete the tasks you haven't yet finished.

What should be on your blog so far...

• Coventions of magazines
• Analysis of front cover/contents page/example photographs
• Audience research
• Weekly journal
• Photo plans- including location/props/costume/lighting/layouts
• Raw photos and explanations of which ones you have chosen and why
• Three titles and explanations of how your research of conventions/target audience influenced you
• Three mastheads and explanations of how your research of conventions/target audience influenced you
• Plans for front cover and contents page
• Mark sheet from me

Tips from the moderator

Explanation for changes whilst planning were often brief and lacked depth.

Try and show candidate’s work as a journey. How has research influenced their planning? EG Have they discarded images? Why?

Few candidates submitted a selection of raw images.

Wider range. Vary pose/costume/lighting/location.

Image editing was only briefly considered.

Take screen grabs of the process to show what is being done and have kids explain why they’ve manipulated it in that way. Link this to research/convention etc.

Candidates need to demonstrate greater awareness [in their photography] of the need for variety as suitable for the chosen music genre.

As above: Wider range. Vary pose/costume/lighting/location.

Candidates need to demonstrate a better understanding of the conventions of layout and page design.

Further research needed. Analyse and break down several existing mags of their chosen genre.

Front covers lacked content.

Use list from contents page. How many coverlines are usually on covers? How many do you have?

Double page spreads often designed as two single pages.

Research layout of doublepage spreads. Focus on page break.

Deadline for preliminary task: Friday 8th November

Student of the week: NASRINE!!

Homework

Your homework is to continue to complete the preliminary task tasks below.

Preliminary task

Preliminary task: Week 1: Take photos of School + Photos of 2 friends in Medium Close Up Week 2: Come up with 3 titles and 3 different mastheads: Put these ideas on your blog Week3 : Design a front page and find 3 similar front pages: Week4 + 5 : Put it all together to make the front page and contents page of a school magazine Week 6: Evaluation and presentation

Homework due next Friday 27th September

Select three different images which you believe would be suitable for the front cover of a music magazine and explain why you think they are effective. Try to choose images that are not already on a front cover please. Consider: - colour - age of model - gender -lighting -composition -feel of image -size -expression -setting

Magazine Research Booklet by msainscoughmedia

How to use photoshop

Using Adobe Photoshop 1. Go to File-New On the Preset drop down menu select A4 if you are making a Poster or Magazine front cover, otherwise chose the size you desire. If you want to CUSTOM your width and height do so in the sections underneath the Preset menu. Make sure your Color Mode: RGB Color 8 bit and chose your background contents colour if you desire, otherwise leave this as White. 2. Create a duplicate of your background layer so that you can work on your background regularly. Background layers lock once you have created a new layer so it is safest to do this! 3. Chose a background colour for your project. Select your background copy layer to work on in the layers window. If it becomes a blue bar then it is selected. Change the foreground and background colour to that which you desire. Then use the Paint tool in the tool bar to fill the project window your preferred colour. The arrow above the foreground and background colour squares allows you to swoop them over. 4. Chose your images- either your own images from your my pictures folder or images off the internet. COPY and PASTE them from the internet or another document. Shortcuts for copying, cutting and pasting are as follows: Ctrl X = Cut. Ctrl C = Copy. Ctrl V = Paste. This is the same in all Adobe programmes- including Premier and After Effects. Your picture will automatically be placed on a new layer, you should check that you are selected on this layer whenever you want to work on it. Your picture will probably look the wrong size in Photoshop - to change the size of your picture go to Edit-free transform. A box with small boxes in each corner and on the sides of your picture will then appear, hold down shift and drag the bottom right hand corner to enlarge your picture. It will look pixelated- DON’T WORRY! Once you have applied the transformation it will adjust. When you click off the picture or onto another tool on the tool bar a window will appear asking you if you want to apply the transformation- click YES. PHOTOSHOP TOOL BAR: The marquee tool allows you to select things in lines, circles on squares. All on the tools on the tool bar have a small triangle in the bottom right hand corner, if you right click on this then it gives you a sub menu: The Move tool allows you to click on things and move things, for general tasks, clicking in windows and using File, Edit etc and moving images about this is the tool you want selected on the tool bar. The lasso tool is a really useful tool, it allows you to select areas freehand, this can be a bit tricking by the magnetic lasso or the polygonal lasso are the easiest to use. The polygonal lasso allows you to click to points in straight lines to cover an area you want selected. The magnetic lasso sticks to the nearest edges. It is important that your start and finish points match up, once you have made your selection you should double click. Now to get rid of the black in the picture but to keep Kate Moss’s face, you need to go to Select- Inverse. This now inversing your selection, so instead of Kate Moss being selected, the background of her image is selected. Now all you need to do is press DELETE and you have this: You can see your original blue background behind the image of Kate. There is another way you can do this when you have a block of one colour that you wish to get rid of, this is using the magic wand tool. Note: To get back to my image behind I started to play with the lasso tool I went back through the history window above the layers window on the right of the screen. The History window is great because it allows you to go back step-by-step to the beginning of your project. Select the Magic Wand Tool on the toolbar next to the lasso and click on the black area, it will appear as a selected area as thus: Press Delete and then repeat for the other black area too. You again have an image that looks like this: Using the move tool you can now move your picture to wherever you want, like thus: Though this looks quite nice, the picture of Kate Moss does look like it’s just been cut out and stuck on the page. To alter this you need to go to select your picture again and inverse so that the surroundings of the picture are selected and then go to SELECT- FEATHER: You want to feather at 20 pixels, this is standard. Then go to EDIT-CLEAR and keep doing this till the edges of your image have faded to a satisfactory standard. Next we are going to move on to adding text. Image adjustment and gradient map. Effects. Levels.

Mark Sheet by mrsloan

Contents page due Friday 20th

Complete an analysis of a music magazine contents page. Upload to your blog.

H/W Due Fri 13th

Carry out at least 5 student surveys for your school magazine. incomplete h/w: Nasrine Kai Arfaat

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