AS blog links for moderation.

Here are the links to AS blogs for moderation purposes from Richmond School:

Meg
Aaran
Owen
Sacha
Campbell

Mood boards...

Wikipedia definition:
A mood board is a type of poster design that may consist of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition of the choice of the mood board creator. Designers and others use mood boards to develop their design concepts and to communicate to other members of the design team.
It would be a good idea to create your own mood board and think about location (for film or photography), costume, colour theme, font design, casting (film) etc.

Here are a few examples:

Once you have completed your mood board - upload to your blog (either a digital mood board or hand made one - photograph of!) and discuss some of your initial ideas found in it.

Have fun and good luck:)

Miss D

Posts so far...

Hello everyone:)

Here is a comprehensive list of the sort of posts you should have so far and should have completed by Monday when I see you next.

• Introduction - what will she be doing - magazine.
• Initial research - two magazines - one of her choice and a music magazine examining audience, cost, features, differences etc.
• In depth front cover analysis of a music magazine labelling features.
• Uploading preliminary task - school magazine front cover and contents page +evaluation of that.
• Research magazine industry and the company IPC media.
• Brainstorm/plan potential names for magazine
• Market research - a questionnaire/research into what the target audience want from the music magazine she plans to do (survey Monkey is a good one and she can e-mail the link to me and I will get the class to fill it in)
• Re-design a front cover (this may not be possible as she will need access to Photoshop.
• Watch a Photoshop tutorial and blog about how she will use the skills
• Mock up of her magazine
• Plan the photo shoot for the magazine
• Take the photos and upload the images - analysing whether they have been effective/which are the best.

If you need any advice or help with any of these then see Mr Boulton Lear in lesson or e-mail me. Obviously if you are doing film - hopefully you have the list I put on the board on Tuesday but if not - it is the same sort of thing but tweaked to suit film. E.g. research working title films not IPC media etc.

Good luck everyone and remember - detail and analysis.
Miss D

Remember...be inventive!

Don't forget to make your blog posts varied and interesting. Also - when you are working through a Photoshop production piece or the final magazine - remember to screen shot the work as you are going (print screen then alt print screen to copy it on blog).
Also - make sure the posts are in order and show DEVELOPMENT!
Use the same analytical skills you used for the exam when looking at existing conventions and discuss the choices you make in depth...referring regularly to AUDIENCE.
Enjoy:)
Miss D

FRONT COVERS, CONTENTS PAGES AND DOUBLE PAGE SPEADS...!

This is a post with collages of different front covers, contents pages and double page spreads to give you an idea of different styles/layouts/inspiration for your own magaines. I hope you find it useful and a similar post on your blogs would not look out of place!:)

Front Covers:

Contents page:

Double page spread:

Please use these for inspiration and ideas for layout etc. Not all of these are from music magazine but inspiration can still can found:-) You will notice that many of these are very image heavy...something to think about.

Miss Dx



Introduction:)

Hello everyone,

This will be the place to come for blog advice; hints and tips and I will use this blog to comment on your blogs. If you have any questions, need advice or would like me to create a post to help you, then please let me know. Remember - don't leave it all until the last minute and make sure you are being analytical; that the blog flows and that the creative process can clearly be seen.

Miss D

Links to Student Blogs

Campbell
Alexander
Shaun
Jake
Mark
Meg
Kayleigh
Dan
Steffi
Aaran
Gracie
Jake G
Vicky
Tom
Owen
Brogan
George
Sacha