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!