Blogger of the Week

Happy 2017, everyone. The first Blogger of the Week of this new year at AS is Kathryn - an inspiration to us all as she completed her filming over the Christmas holidays. At A2, our star blogger this week is Lizzy who has mastered Motion to create a fantastic film company ident. Hooray!

Blogger of the Week

Well done to CP this week, completing Evaluation 3. We're on the home strait now, bloggers, so keep going! Just a reminder of your deadline:

Friday 18th March - AS and A2 Coursework to be completed, including 7 evaluation questions (and audience feedback showing) for AS; including 2 ancillary task and 4 evaluation questions for A2.

Bloggers of Half Term

Well done to the three AS half term bloggers - a new hologram effect for Jess's film opening, an excellent evaluation answer for CP and some great planning and research from Tabitha. Blog on!

Blogger of the Week

All ready for your half-term blogging, here's the choice of trophies up for grabs on the Monday back after half term:

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Blogger of the Week

At AS this week it's Jessie for her AMAZING CGI work on her robot for her film opening. Top use of digital technology PLUS audience feedback.

Blogger of the Week

This week's top blogger at AS is Lizzy, for being the first to complete Evaluation Question 1. Close runner-up is Nikita for her cool video on Vertigo Films' 'Bill'. So far, Katriona and Charlotte are top bloggers numerically at 65 posts each to date. Blogtastic!!

Blogger of the Week

Wow! Much work has been going on with Motion5 this week, especially from Nikita, who is Blogger of the Week and has become the official St Mary's Media Motion Consultant - the go-to expert for all your Motion queries and concerns. Well done!

Blogger of the Week

Last week, Blogger of the Week was shared for over-Christmas-holiday blogging of Year 12. Well done. This week, congratulations to Katriona who blew everyone out of the water in the last four days with her extensive research and excellent blog posts. A shining example of blogtasticism!

Blogger of the Week

It was a very difficult choice this time, as AS blogging has reached an all-time high,linking coursework with Audiences and Institutions exam work. Particular accolades to CP for detailed Disney and coursework blogging. At A2, blogger of the week is Georgia for keeping us up to date on her filming schedules.

Blogger of the Week

Well done this week at AS to Lizzy, who posted two entertaining and informative videos about BARB, which we looked at in class. And well done to Emily at A2 for blogging in detail about what she could use from our BFI Study Day in making her own music promo video. Blog on!

Blogger of the Week

Dear Bloggers, this week's joint winners at AS are Tabitha (for catching up fully on her posts and achieving 30) and Katriona for using her Media skills across the curriculum in a French video about the Paris terrorist attack.

At A2, our blogger of the week is Emily for blogging in lots of detail about the ups and downs of greenscreening the first section of her music video. Fablogulous!

Blogger of the Week

Well done this week at AS to Tabitha, who found a way around the issue of using copyrighted music by planning to create her own soundtrack by recording her own artist playing the piano piece that she has selected for her film opening.

Well done at A2 for the second week running to Chaya - lots of planning and research on her music video and ancillary tasks. Blog on!

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Blogger of the Week

Not so much blogging this week at AS, due to much storyboarding. Well done to everyone for completing their storyboards, however. This week, for uploading her script and an impressive montage of dystopian films (her chosen genre), at AS our blogger of the week is CP.

At A2, for working really hard (and blogging her progress) on her research for her ancillary tasks and learning how to use Photoshop, our Blogger of the Week is Chaya. Well done and blog on!

Blogger of the Week and Blogger of October

Dear Bloggers, it's been a tough yet fascinating journey judging your half-term posts. I decided to award just one 'Blogger of the Week' for the two-week half-term holiday, and that winner at AS is Jessie, who made another novel use of digital technology with her post using Pinterest. Well done, Jessie.

Blogger of the Month goes to Lizzie, who is really showing the journey of her research and planning with detailed notes on her thinking and re-thinking of her film opening (and 36 posts to date, which brings her so close to the 40-post target you were set in September). Fabulous work - definitely a film-maker in the making.

At A2, Blogger of the Week goes to Chaya, who has created an animatic of her storyboard which really helps us imagine how her plans will be realised. Excellent practice, Chaya.

A2 Blogger of the Month goes to Georgia, who posted some photos of the location shoot she did over the weekend, plus an 'on location' video. Her blog clearly shows the progression of her work from the planning to the production stage. Well done!

Blogger of the Week

Year 12 surpassed themselves this week with the blogtastic research and planning, uploading their presentations for their film ideas as well as some excellent audience research videos. Just first past the post at AS this week was Lizzie, who has 28 very detailed and relevant posts so far, including excellent audience research.

At A2, Blogger of the Week is Georgia, who has uploaded her completed storyboard for her film trailer. Let the filming commence!

Blogger of the Month

Well done, Bloggers, for entering into the spirit of the competition. Our very first Bloggers of the Month are, this month, at AS, Jessie, for her inspiring research and going the extra mile with creating a hologram. At A2, Chaya and Emily are next and neck, so this month they share the Blogger of the Month.

Bloggers of the Week this week are, at AS, Nikita, for her adventures into the world of Prezi. At A2, it's Emily.

Stop Press: Blogger of the MONTH

News just in! There is a new competition in addition to our Blogger of the Week. It's Blogger of the Month, to the overall best blogger of - well - the last 28-or-so days. The winner of this competition will be announced in the first week of the new month, so next Monday, which is the first Monday in October. The race is still on, folks, so blog away til next Monday 5th October!

Blogger of the Week

Well done to Katriona this week, who earned her strawberry laces by making some really good Prezis for her research and planning tasks. It's great when you use as wide a range of digital technology as you can to present your work - and even better to embed Prezis, Slideshare presentations, videos, etc into your blog so that the moderator can see them there rather than having to click on a link. At A2, the blogosphere has been a little quieter of late, but the prize goes to Georgia for completing a plan of action for her horror trailer. Just an observation - AS bloggers have achieved more posts than A2 bloggers so far this month - remember at A2 you're aiming for 80 posts by the end of your coursework (and at least 40 at AS, but you're well on the way!).

Blogger of the Week

How the weeks are beginning to fly by, but huge congratulations to Year 12 who have taken blogging to a whole new level, uploading some of the videos they made before they began the course and blogging about other film courses and activities that have already built up their skills. Top blogger for last week is Jessie, who has achieved a fabulous 15 posts in the last couple of weeks, all of them detailed and relevant. At A2, the winner is Chaya, for posting her detailed analysis of her Little Mix video. Well done, both. Blog on, everyone!

Blogger of the Week

Welcome, Bloggers, to the first post of this academic year 2015-16! And for our first two winners of the Blogger of the Week competition we have, at AS, Charlotte, with her superb start to her Foundation Portfolio blog. She completed some detailed analysis of clips in her chosen genre, which is excellent research towards her film opening.

At A2, the competition was fierce, but Chaya finally was the first choice because she is up to date in uploading her House video and her evaluation of that task. Well done, and blog on, everyone!