West Hatch Media

Evaluation questions

2009-12-11T07:52:00.003Z

Apologies for those of you who have been driven mad trying to find these - I honestly thought I had posted them!!!

Anyway, these are the questions that must be addressed in your evaluation - and remember to make it as creative as possible!

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Good luck with this folks! An example of an evaluation can be found here

Reminder: new deadline date is Friday 22nd January - all work to be completed and blog closed!

Really useful guide to film-making!

2009-11-13T09:51:00.001Z

Here:
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/camera/tutorial/

DEADLINE DATES!

2009-10-01T11:00:00.003+01:00

The following dates are for your benefit and what you should be working towards in order to maximise your grades. The mark for planning and research will reflect your ability to meet these deadlines!

Main Task - Moving Image or Print:
Shooting deadline/images taken - 16/10/09
Rough cut/initial layout and design - 23/10/09
Final deadline for main task - 13/11/09

Ancillary Products Deadline - 4/12/09

Evaluative commentary draft - 11/12/09
Completed evaluation - 18/12/09

Note: you must use the booking system correctly and return all equipment on time. Failure to do so will result in you not being able to borrow equipment at a later date. Other year groups will also be doing practical coursework at this time, so you need to be organised.

* All blogs will be closed at the end of the day on 18/12/09 - nothing posted after this time will be considered towards your mark.

Analysing newspaper layout

2009-09-28T20:02:00.001+01:00

A simple guide can be found here

and here

Links to Teaser Trailers

2009-09-28T18:34:00.002+01:00

Check these out and note the difference between them and theatrical trailers (which will not yet be available for some films!)

Alice in Wonderland

Toy Story 3

2012

Teaser Trailers

some examplar textual analysis

2009-09-24T09:18:00.001+01:00

Examples of how to analyse your media texts can be found here

Radio advertising

2009-09-23T14:01:00.001+01:00

useful link to information on radio advertising
click here
Radioville - UK advertising company
click here

A reminder of the briefs

2009-09-15T13:53:00.001+01:00

Pay particular attention to the evaluation questions and ensure that your research and planning are guided towards being able to answer them.

Mrs H x

click here for briefs

To get you started...

2009-09-10T08:02:00.001+01:00

All blogs are now active for the A2 session and you can begin merrily blogging to your heart's content!Your first entry should really be a statement of intent or a pitch (whichever you find easiest)- help sheets will be available to take you through the research and planning phase.

Mrs H :)

A2 coursework starts here!

2009-09-10T07:57:00.002+01:00

COURSEWORK DEADLINE - ALL WORK TO BE FINISHED BY THIS DATE - FRIDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2009!

Mrs Horne x

New blogs

2009-06-13T07:46:00.002+01:00

You will all be thrilled to know that your new group blogs have been successfully created and appear in alphabetical order over on the right hand side. Get to it troups!
Mrs H :)

Short Film Practical task

2009-06-11T16:45:00.001+01:00

Hi guys and welcome back!
You should notice that today's groups have been added to the blog, so you can crack on with this practical task asap.
Happy blogging!

Link for TV editing

2009-05-24T08:17:00.004+01:00

Can't seem to access my Outlook stuff from home so don't have email addresses at the moment and will post links here which might be of some use.
this first one is for an AS student blog which you may find of interest. click here
the next one has some areas you may not have considered. click here

Video posts

2009-04-09T10:26:00.002+01:00

Just to let you know that your opening sequences are being posted onto YouTube and links will be created through your blog. if you wish to view them on Youtube they are under westhatchmedia.
Happy viewing!

Coursework congratulations!

2009-04-07T17:54:00.002+01:00

Well done to all of you who made the deadline with time to spare - hopefully those of you who were working right up until the last moment have learned something for next time! I will be posting your finished work onto your blogs over the next few days (well those of you who haven't already done so!)so take a gander at what other people have achieved! The appropriate preliminary work will also be posted, just bear with me.....

How not to store the laptops!

2009-04-02T15:16:00.001+01:00

Evaluation Questions

2009-03-31T16:29:00.001+01:00

click here

Progress

2009-02-26T13:33:00.002Z

It seems that many of you are cracking on really well with your research and planning, but you should all be moving towards the next stage - actually putting your ideas together based on your analysis of real media products! So, get storyboarding and drafting to see your ideas take shape.

Remember to keep your blogs up to date and to name any post that you are individually responsible for! You don't want someone else getting the credit for all of your hard work!

Those of you using scrapbooks still need some form of electronic record, even if it is just a list of tasks set and your own group deadlines.

Happy days!

Opening Sequence of Top Gun

2009-01-26T09:26:00.003Z

This might help you with your analysis of opening sequences.

The dawning of a new term!

2008-04-13T09:18:00.002+01:00

Tis Sunday and the new term fast approaches and it's a big one for all of us! The count down to AS and A2 exams, so I thought I give you an overview of what to expect.

Let's start with A2 - you will continue with the Issues and Debates paper. This term the topic will be the magazine industry so you'd do well to get your hands on a magazine that interests you and that you will base your research and study on for the next few weeks.

We will introduce you to the Critical research paper - an individual piece of research on a topic of your choice (from a list of 9!). Your work will be monitored by one of us - Miss Ford for 13E and 13B2 and Mrs Horne for 13B1 with Ms Bolwell avaiable for help and advice along the way.

We will also be revising film genre and setting you a mock exam - what joy!

AS - with coursework out of the way we can now concentrate on New Media Technologies which will be essentially a piece of group research, presented back to the group.

There will be some extra sessions on Sitcom for those of you who missed sessions due to the demands of other courses - look out for those.

There will be revision lessons before the exams on Action/Adventure films and a mock exam on all of this - you lucky young people!

To top all of this off, we are introducing Film Club this term in conjunction with www.filmclub.org - this will initially target you guys and possibly years 10 and 11 - keep an eye out for the posters!

Oscar Evening 2008 is also fast approaching for Year 13 - invitations and details will be coming soon, so make sure you put the date in your diary.

A very busy time ahead of us, guys, but I am sure we can finish the year with smiles on our faces.

Mrs H

Blog day 2

2008-03-05T12:56:00.000Z

Well even though I showed this to some A level students their lack of excitement underwhelms me! No additions?!* what is the world coming to? Apathetic A level Media Students? Surely not?

"Put our work on there and then we will show an interest!" Are you really that shallow?

it's been a nightmare day so far - desperate to show the ending of Unforgiven in a room where we can actually see proved more than a little difficult. The hall seemed to offer the best solution but could we get the sound to work? Could we heck as like! Oh well, these things are sent to try us and at least I get to end my teaching day by showing Two Pints of Lager which we will be abe to see - no moody, atmospheric lighting in Runcorn! Speaking of which - a reminder of the ending of Fags, Shags and Kebabs!

New to this blogging thing, so bear with me!

2008-03-04T12:46:00.000Z

Well hi all you media peeps out in West Hatch land. Me here trying to lead by example and producing my own blog just to show you how easy it is - well the guys on the course last week told me it was! To be fair all seems good at the moment, so perhps they were telling the truth!

So what is the point of all this? It's another forum for sharing ideas and posing uestions and offering support electronically - you can add to or join in the forum from the comfort of your own PC or laptop where ever you may be!

Hopefully you might use it to get feedback on ideas for coursework or simply to see what other peeps are up to. If there were enough hours in a day I could use it to post useful links to help you with essays and revision - that is an aim so watch this space!

Enough already I hear you shout so I will end this first post of a new era here and sit back in my comfy teacher's chair and await interest zzzzzzzzzz! Oh i have tried to be flash and upload video too - this was a piece of A2 coursework a few years ago