Some Blog Advice

Choose your theme wisely. Choose a Mobile Friendly one so that you can access it easily on any device.

These are some of the more effective looking themes for your new blog:

  • Blaskan
  • Grisaille
  • Infoist
  • My Life
  • Oxygen
  • Quintas
  • Sundance
  • Demo
  • Noteworthy
  • 2010

Take pride in your blog. Remember to do short but illuminating introductions and summaries to each upload, document, insert or link.

Lay it out beautifully – remember you are media students and should be interested in how post represent your understanding. Maintain design continuity regarding the layout, font, font size, headings, bold, post titles etc.

Check your spellings – get someone to proof it on a regular basis. Remember to make attachments PDFs and to use a thumbnail photo as the link.

And KEEP ON TOP OF IT!  You (probably) now know how it feels to get behind, start panicking and rush around to try and catch up. Year 13 is a busy year for everything so make a pact: A POST A DAY IS THE WAY TO AN ‘A’!

It is a no brainer; get the marks where they are the most straightforward to pick up.

Good luck and happy blogging.

Welcome Back Media Peeps – Starting your A2 Media Blog 2017

pomo teachers

HELLO AND WELCOME BACK! WE HAVE MISSED YOU!

The good news is, you all made it – the bad news is, the hard works starts right here, right now!

Your A2 blog is going to be a more sophisticated version of your AS blog.

You’ll still be creating posts and uploading / embedding content in exactly the same way.

The difference will be that you will create a static front page, which you will personalise with your star image / brand and use the images, typefaces and designs you have used on your digipack. It will also feature your final products.

The user (examiner) will navigate your blog content under four simple headings. They are:

  • Music Video
  • Digipak
  • Advert
  • Evaluation Questions

Here is a document to help you start your new Advanced Portfolio blog.

 

Here is a link which itemises all the posts on the blog which we expect you to post between now and the end of January 2018:

A2 Blog Content – remember you need to CATEGORISE EACH POST UNDER MUSIC VIDEO, DIGIPAK, ADVERT OR EVALUATIONS in DRAFTS – DO NOT PUBLISH.

The type of opening welcome you need on your static front page is:

Hello and welcome to my A2 Media Studies portfolio. To see my research, planning, production and evaluation work, please use the navigation tabs at the top of the blog.’

‘This is the brief we were set in September 2017’

A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together

with two of the following three options:

  • a website homepage for the band;
  • a cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package);
  • a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package).

Here are my finished products: