Session on Tuesday 3rd December

For info:

Session 9:30-12.15 on 3/12/13 will be taking place as normal despite the strike action.

Animoto

You should all be registered now with an Educational account for Animoto.

The site allows you to design and share videos using some simple templates - you can change background themes and music for example.

As I have mentioned, I want to see more effort from people to integrate video technologies into their blogs - interviews, analysis, personal reflections etc.

Have a play with the software and see what you can come up with.

Progress

We are now approaching a fortnight until the half term holiday. Before half term you should have completed 90% of research and planning, and be in a position to take your photos for your magazine over the holiday break. You need to be ensuring all work has been completed and uploaded to your blog. This includes (but is not limited to):

 Deconstructions
 Mood board
 Inspirations
 Initial proposal
 Survey results and analysis
 Photoshop experience
 Preliminary task and evaluations
 Industry research
 Rationales for project/flatplans
 Recce/timetabling for photo shoot

 I would expect you to have an absolute minimum of 25 posts on your blog - some people will have considerably more. The number of posts is indicative of the amount of time and effort you are putting into your blog and will assist you in developing a detailed and thorough portfolio of research and planning.

Changing a PDF to Jpeg

If you scan any images through the college printers you will find the images arrive on your email in PDF format. You can't post a PDF image to Blogger so you may find you need to convert it into a useable format (eg Jpeg) in order to get your images up. There is a MAC programme that allows you to do this easily - 'Preview'. Save your PDF file, and open it up through the Preview programme. Click on 'File' then 'Export' - this will give you the option of changing the format of your file. Select Jpeg and it will save to your desired location as such, and then be useable on your blog as an image.

Embedding PDF files

Want to embed a PDF file into Blogger (it doesn't recognise them generally) Follow the instructions on this handy link and play around with the options: http://www.tech.spoilertv.com/2012/05/embedding-pdf-or-other-documents-into.html

Inspirational Texts

This week you need to ensure you have completed your inspirational text work.

This should include your Mood board with a brief description of choices made/the type of magazine you intent to produce.

Following this should be further detail on your inspirational texts.  This should be relevant imagery from magazines (front covers/contents pages/dps) or alternative inspirations (fashion/logos etc) that have helped you formulate your image as to what your magazine will look like. Your images should be accompanied by relevant text that highlights the aspects that you think work well/are suitable/will fit with your vision/will appeal to your target audience.

Finally your proposal sheet, completed and added to blog.

Example Student Work

Here are some good examples from previous years of student work.

This should give you a good idea of the amount of work that should go into blogs:

Don't assume your blog will be identical - we may do different things at different times or use differing resources - these are here as a guide only.

http://callyatkinson-asmedia.blogspot.co.uk

http://nmather.blogspot.co.uk

http://staceycarruthers.blogspot.co.uk