INTRODUCTION – take the time to read and absorb the information and advice before you start.
- Listen to screen castify and make notes
- Complete the commentary table/template on classroom – submit for teacher feedback.
- Copy Emaze or make your own. Look at student exemplar below.
- Link is here, if this works as a copy:
- Cut and paste commentaries from the template: how you have used/developed conventions and represented your genre/star or issues in the magazine on the relevant slides.
- Embed images from own own coursework and embed images from professional texts/examples. Snipping tool city!
STUDENT EXEMPLAR
SOME NOTES
1. How does my product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
This question is asking you to be a detective. There are two elements to this case:
- What are the clues in my magazine?
- The clues are the conventions
- What meaning is suggested, implied or connoted through those clues?
- The meaning is the representation.
We have done work on the conventions of magazine and you may need to revisit the lessons in the departmental blog blog and the important posts in your own. These will refresh you memory about the key concepts and terminology you need to use in the reflection.
The work we did on identifying conventions (clues) are in these posts:
- How the camera makes meaning
- Writing the article.
- Magazine Page Layout
- Your Analysis of the Front Page of a Magazine
The work we did on representation (values, attitudes & beliefs) are in these posts:
- Your Mission Statement
- Representation and The Star
- Mise-en-scene (Designing your star)
- Textual Analysis (Album or Tour Poster)
Identify all the (conventions) clues on your magazine pages by using the template in classroom.
Present your ideas using EMAZE.
- Sign up to a free account
- Copy and rename this EMAZE template (see link below).
- https://www.emaze.com/@AOZFCWFCT/my-brand
- Delete my instructions but keep in the headings and sub headings.
- Insert images in the presentation with examples from your own magazine (use the snipping tool).
- Annotate:
- The Convention usually applied, adopted, followed and did you use, develop and challenge it in your own production?
- Then describe the resulting representation using adjectives (find exciting ones!) for the impact that convention had on the product either in terms of how the artists or themes within the stories are represented.
- Make the presentation your own and delete all the instructions/change the colours etc etc.
Sign up with google, open create…click on this link and then duplicate. You should have your own copy to individualise and make your own.
Some blog posts, which may help: