Year 12 Coursework

Location Shoot Planning

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These are 3 documents that you must complete and upload the first 2 to your blog:

‘Production Meeting Agenda For 2nd Photo Shoot’

  1. Risk Assessment – make a copy
    • As you will be remotely supervised that day, you will need to consider the risks of being on location and discuss them with your teacher and your model(s) to ensure your own and others’ safety. Print it out and get your teacher to check it through and sign it.
  2. Production Meeting Agenda – make a copy
    • This is vital so that everyone knows what they are expected to bring for the shoot – costumes, make up, props etc.
  3. You should also complete this shared planning document in discussion with your models and teacher.

Location Shoot Photos

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Here are the location photos from Castle Cornet, Castle Emplacement, Candie Gardens and The Priaulx Library, Town and St James.

Please use this photos in order to understand the nature of the  locations available to you and to consider what sort of story can be best told in this location.

Also, given the location you choose, what sort of mood / tone are you going to try to adopt that can be most easily created in these locations and which suits the genre of your music magazine.

St James

Priaulx Library Photos

Candie Gardens Photos

Castle Cornet

St Peter Port

Town.

Setting up Your Adobe Indesign Project

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ONE PROJECT…MANY DRAFTS

You will create one Adobe InDesign project for your whole magazine, not separate projects for each page.

You should create a total of six pages:

  • Front Page
  • Advert
  • Contents Page
  • Double Page Spread (2 pages)
  • Advert

You do this by opening the ‘Pages‘ tab in the top right and adding five additional pages. See below.

Drafting & Redrafting

When you have finished a draft you should save as ‘Draft 2, 3, 4 …’ This means you can go back to previous versions later if necessary.

Masthead designs

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MASTHEAD DESIGN

Now you know what your magazine is going to be called (you should have decided this for your Mission Statement), you need to have some fun designing some mastheads.

  • Use the inspiration from the fonts you have included in your moodboard and design about 5 on one Indesign A4 template – make a note of the fonts, size that you use alongside it.
  • Focus on weight, size, height, boldness etc and add some effects from the FX button.
  • We can import fonts from dafont – but you need to create a DAFONT folder in your D Drive so that the IT technicians can then install them.
    • Before that though, download them into the P Drive folder that is shared with all of you.
  • However, you can also take them into Photoshop and manipulate them in there. However, this won’t be great for copy (captions), but should be fine for the masthead.
  • Remember, bold and conventional font for the genre of the music and one that is also eye catching.
  • Choose one final design and include it on its own A4 template in Indesign and position and size it accordingly.

Preparing for your cover shoot – Production Meeting Agenda

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In order to plan your studio shoot of your main cover star, you will need to be REALLY ORGANISED.

Use a Production Meeting Agenda to plan out exactly when and where you are doing the shoot. Who is responsible for bringing various props, MES and who will be doing hair and make-up.

You will need to think carefully about who your model is and plan with them when they are available for the shoot. Plan to have a free before so that you can get them ready and maximise time in the studio or use breaktime or lunchtime to get everything ready. Use your Media lessons too.

PRODUCTION MEETING AGENDA (make a copy) – and include photos of the costumes from your star image slide to remind yourself and the models what they need to bring etc.

The link to the Photography Studio booking chart is in Information above. You will need to liaise with your model to ensure that you are all free and available.

REMEMBER THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL – nails, friendship bracelets, bad hair, weird hair toggles, school shoes and school shirts, random jewellery and earrings.  Also, avoid clothing with logos or branding.

DON’T FORGET TO USE THE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT.

So what am I up against?

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You need to understand the market for your magazine.  This task will require you to do some research into what is available currently as print magazines and also online for your genre of music.

You will then analyse their formats and content to give you some ideas of where and how your magazine will need to be compiled.

Task

  • Use this document to craft your narrated response.  Take a copy.
  • Then illustrate a google slideshare with plenty of examples, photos, inserts, screen shots, snips tools of the competition.
  • Save this presentation as a pdf and then import into voicethread.com
  • Narrate your commentary over the top of the slideshare making sure the images are relevant to your examples on the slides.
  • Embed the voicethread into your blog.

Star Image

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Representation and Ideology.

TASK 1 – WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE! 

  • The Star Image game.

TASK 2 – The Theory. 

  • This slideshow below tries to explain what representation means and how we can use music star image to illustrate the concept. Also this will act as research into the design of your own star, which you will be photographing in the week beginning 18th November.

TASK 3

Create a Prezi on the representation of a star.

  • Choose ONE music star who would feature in your genre of magazine.
  • Take a copy of this Prezi.
  • Find examples from a range of media texts surrounding your star (their meta-narrative).
  • For each of your media texts include a description of how they are represented through the image,the tweet, the article, the lyric…
  • How is the star image represented, portrayed, conveyed?
    • What is implied, inferred, suggested?
    • Underline or bold every adjectives and every time you use the term represent or a synonym.
    • Illustrate with photos, screen shots and examples to make it less of an essay.

TASK 4 – Design Your Star

Create a Google slide with images of what you would like your cover model to wear….include hair, make up, jewellery, accessories, costumes and any relevant props. Also, indicate how you would like them to pose – their body language, gestures and facial expression to convey their meta-narrative and fit the genre.  How do you want their star image to come across? How do you want them to be represented?