Evaluation

You should be finishing your construction now and getting ready to start putting together your evaluation, if you haven't already done so.

If you have taken our advice, you will have collated lots of material for your evaluation during the production process, so you should just need to assemble this together.

Your evaluation MUST answer the following questions in detail and be presented in an original and creative way - not just typed up in sentences:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Check out this section of Pete Fraser's blog for some inspiration as to how you may present your evaluation:
http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/evaluation-for-ocr-coursework.html

Or open up this Powerpoint presentation which offers helpful suggestions as to how you might approach each question in a user-friendly format.

Good luck - and don't forget the final deadline is midnight on Friday 8th February!

Are you on track to meet the final deadline?

Remember, the final deadline is 8th February.

I am very concerned that some of you have still not, for example:

• Uploaded photos from your photo shoots (not just the one photo you have selected for your cover) - remember, more than one photo shoot is needed to achieve Level 4. You must include more than one artist and an appropriate variety of mise en scene.
• Uploaded details of any planning/layouts/drafts for your front cover, contents page or double page spread.
• Made any reference to your contents page or DPS anywhere on your blog - these are essential parts of your magazine and are assessed in the same way as the front cover.

Please make it your priority to get up to date with your coursework as a matter of urgency. In order to submit a Level 4 Evaluation (worth 20% of your coursework mark), you need to allow yourself a week to put this together.  More details to follow on the Evaluation this week.

Remember, marks are awarded (and deducted) according to your time management skills in your mark for 'Research and Planning' (another 20% of your coursework mark).

Message for Miss Osborne's class

Apologies - I will not be able to make Monday's lesson - 14th January. Please use this time to ensure that your work on sub-genres of TV drama is completed and ready to present back Tuesday period 2.  We will have a visiting teacher from Darrick Wood joining us in the lesson - make the right impression by arriving well-prepared with thorough feedback!

Once this is completed, you can use the rest of the lesson to continue with your coursework - your blogs indicate that this extra time is much-needed!

See you Tuesday period 2 and apologies again for any inconvenience.

Miss O

Problem with Blogger - Uploading pictures

We are aware there is currently a glitch when it comes to uploading images via Blogger.

This is easily resolved as follows:
- Go to https://picasaweb.google.com/
- Click on 'Upload'
- 'Select photos from computer'
- Select the photos you want to upload
- Then, open the Blogger post
- Click on the graphic to upload a picture in the usual way
- Select 'From Picasa Web Albums'
- Hey presto - there are your images!

Room change for Miss O's lessons

Please note our lessons will be in S4 on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Our Thursday period 7 lessons will continue to be held in S13 until February half term.

Thanks.

TV Drama - Miss O's lessons

Please find the links to lesson powerpoints below. Please also check these slides for details of any homework that may have been set to ensure you stay on top of the workload:

Monday 7th plus Tuesday 8th (cover lesson) January - Intro to TV drama

Tuesday 22nd January - Introduction to mise en scene (resource currently unavailable - please get the notes from your 'Study Buddy' in the meantime)

Monday 28th January - Mise en scene and sound

Tuesday 29th January - Writing about sound

Monday 4th February - Camera shots and angles

Tuesday 5th February - Writing about camera shots and angles

Monday 11th February - Introduction to camera movement and editing (handout here)

Tuesday 12th February - TV Drama, time and editing

Tuesday 26th February - Binary Opposition and gender

Monday 4th March - Gender in an extract ('Cutting It')

Tuesday 5th March - Preparing an exam response AS Media Studies mark scheme

Thursday 7th March - Binary opposition and crime drama (handout here)

Cover work for 11th and 12th March

Thursday 14th March - Narrative theory and representation ('Life on Mars')
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwqC0c0U1v7GM1Q4UmZQMmNsQ28/edit?usp=sharing

Monday 18th March - Introduction to representation of ethnicity ('Luther'). Accompanying article is saved here.

Tuesday 19th March - Cover lesson - Background reading and accompanying questions on 'Race in the Media'

Thursday 21st March - Representation of ethnicity in Spooks

Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th March - Ethnicity in an extract ('Hotel Babylon')

Monday 15th April - Peer assessment lesson on 'Primeval' (gender extract set for HW) Candidate's responses here. Please also refer to hard copy of 'Peer assessment' pack

Tuesday 16th April-Friday 19th April - Representation of age in 'Monarch of the Glen'. Low level 2 response here. Low level 4 response here.

Monday 22nd April - Period dramas and class

Tuesday 23rd April - Putting together a model analysis of representation of class in 'Cranford'. Example of note-taking stage here.

Thursday 25th April - Introduction to representation of disability

Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th April - Analysis of camera angles and  editing linked to representation of disability

Independent work set on representation of sexuality in TV drama - Support powerpoints are available here and here.

Introduction to your exam topics

Happy new year!

A reminder that your Media Studies lessons in 2013 will be focused on the exam topics; your coursework should be well under-way and the remainder of your tasks should be completed during your independent study time and any other slots as advised by your Media Studies teachers.

Miss O and Ms James's class: Please bring your Media Studies folders to our first lesson back on Monday, ready for your 'Introduction to TV Drama'. Lessons and resources will be uploaded on to the AS Media blog and labelled accordingly.

Your exam topics:

Section A: Textual analysis: Representation in TV Drama

Section B: Institutions and Audiences

The examination assessment criteria