1) Set up a diary with the label planning. This should be updated weekly. Comments about what you have done in the preceeding week and what you plan to do next week. (Planning)
2) Annotation of a magazine using forms and conventions identified in lesson. (research)
3) Annotation of school Magazine (preliminary task)
4) Mock-up of Front Cover for your school magazine ( Preliminary task, Planning)
5) Planning your photo shoot (Preliminary Task Planning)
6) Outline of your selection process - how did you decide upon the final photos (Preliminary Task Planning)
7) Semiotic analysis of Music Magazine (research)
8) School magazine front cover posted up (preliminary task)
9) Digital (not hand drawn) mock up of school magazine contents page (preliminary task)
10) You should have a post detailing your intended target audience and a lifestyle profile of your imaginary entity. (Target Audience)
11) Mock up of your magazine front cover. This needs to be supported by an explanation of your ideas and how they have been influenced by Target Audience and Imaginary entity, by other magazines covers, consideration of your Double Page Spread and Contents Page. Make reference to font choice(s). (planning)
12) Planning for you photo shoot - remember that you may have to do another photo shoot for your contents page and you double page spread
13) A post detailing the selection process of you final front cover image(s) - why does that photo appeal to your imaginary entity.
14) Your front cover should be posted up after the lesson on 10/11/11. Finished or not. It is useful for the examiner to see the progress toward the finished text.
15) Three fellow students should now have completed your lifestyle questionnaire from the point of view of who they think the target audience is. Their conception of your target audience should come from looking at your front cover. Look at their answers compared to your original anwers to see how close they are. Make a summative comment about this audience feedback and make possible adjustments in the light of those comments. this should be labelled audience feedback, planning
16) As part of your research should post up some information on how magazines make money with reference to the structural triangle. label research
16i) You need to post up a rate card and revenue projection for your magazine. This should also include 5 potential companies that would want to advertise in your magazine. Also include a real ratecard.
17) Front Cover should be posted up. Let the examiner see the evolution of the product. Draft - Partially constructed - final cover. (label Main task)
18) Research double page spread (DPS)- post up one that has inspired you with some analysis. (labels Research, Planning)
19) Mock up DPS (Label Planning)
20) Planning your photo shoot - it's important not to populate your double page spread with pictures that are exactly like the front cover. Need some variety (planning)
21) Try and incorporate mine and other's feedback to your front cover.Try and have a multi media approach to presenting feedback. Take that feedback and try and useit to influence the production of your double page spread and contents page.
22) Post up some research into the challenges facing the magazine industry
23) you should repeat the same process you went through with your DPS (research, planning, partial production, feedback, final production final feedback) for your Contents Page (CP). Your CP should make reference to those articles mentioned on the front cover and others.
24) Complete you research exercise and post it up. This should have two labels - research and Target Audience. Make sure your research is thorough and well presented. Visuals and hyperlinks. Demonstrate your ICT skills.
Monday 19 September 2011
Monday 5 September 2011
A2 Media BLOG Post Worklist
Brief
A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with a film magazine front cover, featuring the film and a poster for the film.
I will update this post weekly so you can keep up to date
1) Send me a link to your A2 Blog
2) Pitching a film. The lesson handout should inform a research section on your BLOG. The lesson should also inform an audience feedback section on your BLOG telling the examiner how particular ideas were received by potential audiences.
3) Planning (storyboard, mind map etc) for a practice short film. This should go in your planning section.
4) The practice film should be complete and ready for a screening and audience feedback
all this should have been achieved before the summer break.
9th September
5) Post up two Production Case Studies - demonstrating why you think the film was made
6) Should have put this up first - you need a diary charting your progress. I suggest you add a weekly comment - what you've achieved and what you plan to do the following week. This should have the label 'planning'
7) Linking to point 5. Having identified reasons as to why you thought the film would be made upload the trailer and see if the distributors highlighted the key features you identified.
8) Post up the video of you presentation and audience feedback
9) You should also upload your presentation is some format. Let the examiner know how the feedback is going to feed into the planning of the actual shoot.
10) you need under a research label to post up a detailed analysis of a trailer or two using the framework I e mailed you. This analysis needs to be semiotic and engage with appropriate film language.
11) Post up an outline of the role and purpose of the film distribution using the notes from today's lesson (3/10/11) This should be labelled 'research'. Make it interesting to look at adding some visuals.
12) Post up some research into film exhibition - use notes e mailed on 13/10/11. This will give you a good opportunity to add in some graphs with reference to cinema attendance, cinema screens and age and gender profile of audiences. It would be worth connecting this research to your identified target audience. Is your trailer promoting a commercial or arthouse film? (Research and Target Audience)
13) use the following link exit polls to demonstrate you understanding of the different ways in which people find out about film and indeed why they choose to go and watch it. Remember you are going to also produce a film poster (above the line costs) and a magazine front cover featuring you film (below the line costs) (Research and Target Audience)
14) early footage with audience feedback should now have been posted. This entails a video upload with three comments from fellow student. On the basis of this feedback you should make a summative comment and suggest any tweaking of the project in the light of this feedback. Audience feedback is crucial to the examiner. label planning, audience feedback
15) You should now have a number (at least 3) postings about audience feedback. This should be presented in a variety of ways. It should be clear to the examiner how this feedback has informed the production process.
16) I'd recommend you start exploring some film magazines (Empire and Sight and Sound) to name but two. You can then post up some research into front covers and produce a mock up for your front cover.
17) Now that your final trailer productions are posted can I recommend you find interesting ways of showing them and gaining feedback from amongst your peers.
18) Film Poster and Magazine cover
Process
A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with a film magazine front cover, featuring the film and a poster for the film.
I will update this post weekly so you can keep up to date
1) Send me a link to your A2 Blog
2) Pitching a film. The lesson handout should inform a research section on your BLOG. The lesson should also inform an audience feedback section on your BLOG telling the examiner how particular ideas were received by potential audiences.
3) Planning (storyboard, mind map etc) for a practice short film. This should go in your planning section.
4) The practice film should be complete and ready for a screening and audience feedback
all this should have been achieved before the summer break.
9th September
5) Post up two Production Case Studies - demonstrating why you think the film was made
6) Should have put this up first - you need a diary charting your progress. I suggest you add a weekly comment - what you've achieved and what you plan to do the following week. This should have the label 'planning'
7) Linking to point 5. Having identified reasons as to why you thought the film would be made upload the trailer and see if the distributors highlighted the key features you identified.
8) Post up the video of you presentation and audience feedback
9) You should also upload your presentation is some format. Let the examiner know how the feedback is going to feed into the planning of the actual shoot.
10) you need under a research label to post up a detailed analysis of a trailer or two using the framework I e mailed you. This analysis needs to be semiotic and engage with appropriate film language.
11) Post up an outline of the role and purpose of the film distribution using the notes from today's lesson (3/10/11) This should be labelled 'research'. Make it interesting to look at adding some visuals.
12) Post up some research into film exhibition - use notes e mailed on 13/10/11. This will give you a good opportunity to add in some graphs with reference to cinema attendance, cinema screens and age and gender profile of audiences. It would be worth connecting this research to your identified target audience. Is your trailer promoting a commercial or arthouse film? (Research and Target Audience)
13) use the following link exit polls to demonstrate you understanding of the different ways in which people find out about film and indeed why they choose to go and watch it. Remember you are going to also produce a film poster (above the line costs) and a magazine front cover featuring you film (below the line costs) (Research and Target Audience)
14) early footage with audience feedback should now have been posted. This entails a video upload with three comments from fellow student. On the basis of this feedback you should make a summative comment and suggest any tweaking of the project in the light of this feedback. Audience feedback is crucial to the examiner. label planning, audience feedback
15) You should now have a number (at least 3) postings about audience feedback. This should be presented in a variety of ways. It should be clear to the examiner how this feedback has informed the production process.
16) I'd recommend you start exploring some film magazines (Empire and Sight and Sound) to name but two. You can then post up some research into front covers and produce a mock up for your front cover.
17) Now that your final trailer productions are posted can I recommend you find interesting ways of showing them and gaining feedback from amongst your peers.
18) Film Poster and Magazine cover
Process
Research into similar products. Try and consider the relationship between Trailer, Magazine and Poster by looking at all three together. E.G. War Horse Trailer, War Horse Film Poster and Empire Magazine featuring War Horse on the cover. The Trailer and Poster are part of the advertising for a film and are above the line costs. The Magazine cover is publicity and free (below the line). Your research should make reference to your wider research on the film industry (particularly the area of distribution)
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