Blog Requirements

Below is an e-mail from our teacher outlining the requiement we need to meet for our blog. We feel that we have already achieved highly in the majority of these areas and believe that our blog represents our progression throughout the course of our media coursework.

Dear Students,

Well done on meeting the deadlines for submitting the ancillary tasks (digipak and advertisement). The next step in your coursework journey is to complete your blog. It is due on February 24, 2014.

Have a good break.

Steps.
Review your blog theme and widgets—Make sure the blog reflects the band/singer (colours, theme, fonts, etc.). Make sure you have appropriate widgets (calendar, links).
Review your blog posts–have you tagged and categorized your entries? Are all embedded links working. Each student will be graded individually.
Review marking criteria. It can be found here. http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/81037-specification.pdf ….Look on page 70.
Each person must show evidence of the areas. One post per area does not cut it. I’ve listed some ideas below.
Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed.

• There is research into similar products and a potential target audience.(music videos that influenced your idea, ancillary task research, history of music videos, audience feedback, dailies, audience feedback of final products–ancillary tasks and music video, a range of types of audience feedback, music video conventions, conventions of ancillary task items, research on how you used specific software to help you…Photoshop, premiere pro)
• There is work on shot lists, layouts, drafting, scripting or story boarding. (animatic, drafts of ancillary tasks, rough cut of music video, set layout for music video, arrangement of location, shooting script, etc.)
• There is organization of actors, locations, costumes or props. (communication with actors throughout process, communication with locations, shots of locations, reece shots, costume, make-up, shots of props, communication with Lollie to book equipment)
• Time management. (How have you managed your time each week? media sign-in, planner/diary, timetable).
• There skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation (blogging, Scribd, Slideshare, Vlog, SoundCloud, Embedded videos, images, slideshows)
• There is communication skills. (fluent expression, spelling, capital letters, blogs are detailed and show the journey of the project, grammar)
• Care in the presentation of the research and planning. (tagging, blog theme, categorizing)

5. I would say that each student needs to have 4-5 items for each of the above.

DO NOT BE THE STUDENT THAT DOESN’T DEVELOP HIS/HER BLOG. IT COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ‘A’AND A ‘B’.

Regards,

Mr. Dunford

Plan of Categories and blog posts

 

As we are coming to the end of the process of making our blog, I made a list of each category we had and my posts in each one. This made it easier to see what areas of our blog need improving and what I could do to improve it. It also showed what areas needed more attention, how well we have worked during the process and highlighted anything we could have missed out.

Time Management – Completion of Digipak

In order to finish our digipak by the required deadline, Emily, Alice and I are going to meet up in a communal free period to do the finishing touches to our ancillary task. We are meeting period two tomorrow and wrote this in our planners to confirm.

Media Equipment E-mail

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Just a short e-mail to our media technician asking if we can book out the media equipment for out digipak photoshoot.

Time Management – Confirming Digipak Shoot

Tomorrow, as a group we are going to the location of our music video (my house) to take some pictures of artist to use for our digipak and advert. We intend to get some shots of our artist sat by the window seat, as seen in the video, and also some pictures of her against a plain white background which will allow us to do the lighting effect effectively. We confirmed this today to ensure all members were aware and able to go on the shoot.

Time Management – Confirming Shoot

Here is a conversation had yesterday between myself and fellow group members for the shoot. This is the final shoot needed to complete our music video and I text our group members to confirm this.

Shooting List

This is a shooting list we made to ensure that we had everything we needed for our planned filming date. It also made our organisation a lot more efficient because we could then delegate certain props and costume parts to each member of the group meaning it would not all be left to one person to find and provide the props. Doing the shooting list also meant we were clear on what equipment we needed and therefore would not forget anything important on the day of filming.

Progression Timeline

Here is a timeline we made to track our progress and to help us spot anything important we could have missed. It also helped us to realised what had to be done and how long it would take. This enabled us to plan our time more efficiently and be more clear on what needed doing.

Communication

Here is a discussion between Emily, Alice and myself regarding some final checks before filming tomorrow. We are currently discussing different lighting techniques and which we feel may be more effective. We have also communicated to each other who is bring what in terms of props and costumes, and have organised this in advance to make the running of tomorrow as smooth and possible.

Confirmation Of Shooting Date

Here is an email I sent just confirming with other members of the group that we are filming this coming Thursday.