e.books for Media

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Student Usename: ocrmedstud2
Password : student

Lewis Jones Additional Art Blog

Additional Blogs:
http://ridethegraphite.blogspot.com

Year 13 Media URL addresses

http://oasamanthabreen.blogspot.com

http://oatiffanystapleton.blogspot.com

http://oalewisjones.blogspot.com

http://oatomluetchford.blogspot.com

http://oalewiscorney.blogspot.com

Pre- production & Evaluation help

Hi Tom, Tiff, Lewis C, Lewis J & Sam,

Thanks for your initial work on your chosen briefs. Your pre-production work must be posted on your own blogs. Please upload any evidence of drafts (We can scan & upload handwritten storyboards but please keep originals for a scrap book for pre-production)

Include initial Scripts & Evidence time management issues.

I have provided information for the Evaluation below. I will address key issues in lessons but Question 1 needs to be critically considered and evidenced immediately. Please provide links for your chosen style models and clearly consider the conventions of your Media product. An understanding of these conventions is fundamental to successful construction of your product.

Initial scripting & planning needs to be signed off by the end of this week so we can begin initial filming.

........& finally the following link provides fantastic information including examples of 'Good blogs' for you 

 OCR SUPPORT & RESOURCES

The following link provides resources and examples of work from all units http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/

Here's the support material for our evaluation. This is most successfully presented as we work through our coursework brief - NOT leaving until the end

In the evaluation the following 4 questions must be answered:

1. In which ways does your Media Product use, develop or challenge forms & Conventions of Media Products
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
3. What have you learn from Audience feedback?
4. How did you use Media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stage?

Guidance from the OCR for Writing your Evaluation.

1. Focus on creative decisions informed by Institutional Knowledge.(You did what you did partly because of what you have learned about how the media produce, distribute and share material. How have you challenged, supported conventions of real Media Texts - Trailer - Poster - Magazine Cover?)
2. Focus on creative decisions informed by theoretical understanding (You know that you did what you did because of having a point of view in relation to media and meaning and you can describe that in relation to cultural media theories) 
3. Evaluate the process -Don’t just describe it (Why some things worked well and others not so well)
4. Relate to your Media to real ‘Media ‘ at Micro level (give clear, specific examples of how you used techniques and strategies to create inter textual references to media you have been influenced by) Include reference to style model trailers e.g. Sarah’s location in a shower/bathroom echoes Alfred  Hitchcock’s classic murder scene from ‘Psycho’)
5. Try to Deconstruct yourself. (Don’t ever think of your own tastes, decisions, preferences, behaviour as just being ‘the ways things are”: instead try to analyze the reasons for these things - it is tough to do this but worth the effort) You made the decisions for each artifact why?
6. Choose clearly relevant Micro examples to relate to the Macro reflective themes (you can’t write about everything that you did so be prepared with a menu of examples to adapt the needs of the reflective task.)
7. Avoid binary oppositions (your media products will not either follow or challenge existing conventions, they will probably do a bit of both.) 
8. Try to write about your broader Media Culture.(don’t just limit your writing to your OCR production pieces,  but try to extend your response to include other creative work or other media related activities you have been engaged in.) Your Art Work may have helped you with shot composition - Business / Time Management - Theatre/Directing the Actors - ICT - Editing skills.)
9. Adopt a Metadiscourse (step outside of just describing your activities as a  media student to reflect, if possible, on the ‘conditions of possibility’ for the subject and your role within it- what kind of activity is making a video as a video for media studies, compared to making a video as a video as a self-employed media producer?) Example if you were a Film Producer with a budget how could you develop your film?)
10. Quote, paraphrase, reference (reflective writing about the production is still academic writing so remain in that mode of address)