Message to the Moderator

Dear Moderator

Welcome to the blog hub for St Mary's School, Gerrards Cross, Centre 52235. In the sidebar to the right, you will find the June 2018 Series candidate blogs for the A Level Media Studies Advanced Portfolio G324. I hope you enjoy moderating this work.

Helen Williams, Head of Media Studies

Bloggers of the Week

Well done to Alainah and Lauren B for doing a good job on catching up on coursework with high-quality posts.

Blogger of the Week

Well done this week to Kathryn who was the first to complete all of her Advanced Portfolio, upload her evaluations and message to the Moderator.

Blogger of the Week

Well done this week to Lauren M for keeping us up to date with progress. Keep blogging every step of the way, everyone, and don't forget to include a screen shot, video or picture in every post.
Well done, Lauren.

Blogger of the Week

It was a very hard decision this week, as everyone has been blogging away. Just by a whisker, it's Alainah, who has done some excellent posts on the process of creating her website and magazine advert. Keep going, everyone, the end is nigh!

Media Coursework Plan Reminder

Media Coursework Plan 2018

Week 1: 26 Feb – 2 March

            Write film review (Kathryn and Isadora)

            Design mag advert (Lauren, Lauren, Grace, Alainah)

Week 2: 5-9 March

            Design film poster

            Design website

Week 3: 12-16 March

            Filming deadline 12^th March

Week 4: 19-23 March

            Editing deadline Monday 26th March

            Film screening ICT1 Tuesday 1.30 lunchtime 23^rd March

Week 5: 26-28 March

            Work on evaluations

Easter Holidays: Evaluation Day

To complete: Film/music video filming

Edit film/music video

Do screening and get audience feedback

Act on audience feedback

Write film review (Kathryn, Isadora), design magazine review page

Design magazine advert for your album (Lauren, Lauren, Grace, Isadora, Alainah)

Design film poster (Kathryn, Isadora)

Make artist website (Lauren, Lauren, Grace, Isadora, Alainah)

Do 4 evaluations:

1.      In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2.      How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3.      What have you learned from your audience feedback?

4.      How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Blogger of the Week

Well done this week to Lauren B, who has really engaged with the blogging, having done lots of work on her excellent website and magazine advert ancillary tasks. The end is nigh!

Blogger of the Week

Blogger of the Week

Huge congratulations to Isadora this week for completing eight fabulous blog posts and completing her filming for her short film. Hoorah!

A film starring a six-year-old deaf British girl and made by two former Hollyoaks stars has won an Oscar.

The Silent Child, which tells the story of a girl who struggles to communicate, was named best live action short film.

It stars Maisie Sly, aged six, from Swindon, and Rachel Shenton, who played Mitzeee Minniver in the Channel 4 soap.

Shenton also wrote it and used sign language in her acceptance speech. It was directed by Chris Overton - AKA Hollyoaks cage fighter Liam McAllister.

How a camera drone can really enhance your videos...

Blogger of the Week

Congrats to Alainah, who has broken back into blogging with four excellent posts about her magazine advert research. Everyone is back to blogging now, so keep up the good work and blog every step of your filming and editing journey!

'Monster Hunters', a winner of the National Film and Television Awards

Blogger of the Week

Well done this week for Isadora for making excellent progress, keeping her blog up to date and working hard on catching up after her change of plan - and for filming this weekend!

Blogger of the Week

Well done this week to Grace and Lauren M for posting filming progress!

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2018

Blogger of the Week

Well done to Kathryn for blogging progress on her short film over the holidays. Now is the time to get back to the blog for that last push in filming your coursework, everyone!

Critics Choice Award last week:  “The Shape of Water,” the most nominated film of the evening, took home four awards, the most of the night, including Best Picture, Best Director for Guillermo del Toro, Best Production Design for Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin, and Best Score for Alexandre Desplat.