Cohort 2020 – 2022
On Tuesday 8th December, we will be out of school for the day, based at various locations around the island, in order to take some extra photos for your magazine. These photos will be useful for the contents page and could also serve as double page spread and even front cover photos, depending on theContinue reading Production Meeting Agenda and Location Shoot Planning
KEY TERMS: HOOK, ENTERTAINMENT, INFORMATION, PERSONAL IDENTITY, SOCIAL INTERACTION, HOOK, STANDFIRST, BYLINE, QUOTES. The blog post will include: Planning document 1st draft MP3 recording Final draft (post teacher input) Task 1 – Article planning Make a copy of this document, Article Idea Development – complete your notes and embed in your blog. Develop a hookContinue reading Draft Feature Article
KEY TERMS: COPY, HEADLINE, STANDFIRST, USES AND GRATIFICATION THEORY (social interaction, personal identity, information, entertainment), HOOK, REVELATION, INTRIGUE, CALL TO ACTION. Task 1 – LANGUAGE ANALYSIS (Blog Post – article and analysis of it) Choose one of the double page spread articles below: Biography Intro to a long read. 10 Tips for Life Q&AContinue reading Planning and Writing the Article
Scroll through to the Contents page – assessment section. Read and digest how the examples have been assessed. Take the main areas for assessment and ask a peer from the class to give you some feedback on the relevant sections. THERE IS A SHEET IN CLASSROOM THAT YOU CAN USE TO MAKE YOUR NOTES/OBSERVATIONS. YOUContinue reading Contents Page – peer assessment
KEY TERMS: COVERLINES, AIDA, INDEX, PAGE NUMBERS, INTEREST, INFORMATION, ENTERTAINMENT, ATTRACTION Research and planning the layout Make sure you do some extra research to find out what is conventional for a contents page. Basically, it is a MENU for what appears in the rest of the magazine with page numbers for articles and regular features. CompareContinue reading Contents Page – What is it?
DO NOT DO THIS! SOME OF YOU ARE ALMOST TAKING WORD FOR WORD, OTHERS WELL THOUGHT OUT INTRODUCTIONS, REFLECTIONS AND EVALUATIONS. YOU MUST NOT DO THIS! YOU COULD NOT ONLY JEOPARDISE YOUR OWN MARK, BUT THOSE OF THE ENTIRE YEAR!
Use this as a guide to see how you are doing? You should aim to give yourself a level/grade at the end of the assessment. You can copy the main examples but need to then include your own specific examples from your own version. AND 5 TARGETS
KEY TERMS: register, tone, language, imperatives, colloquial language, semantic field, alliteration, hyperbole, create interest and desire. Always focus on how you are going to speak to your target audience. You need to sell the contents in the coverlines – make people want to buy it and open it up. You need descriptive, imaginative, eye catchingContinue reading Draft 1 – Coverlines, Headlines, Pugs, Plugs – tone, register, language
Flash notes Use the umbrella diffuser Make sure legs are stable Make sure front leg is lined up with direction of light so it doesn’t fall forward Umbrella is used to diffuse light / soften the light so it’s less harsh Make sure umbrella is up Use arrows on the flash to increase decreaseContinue reading Flash photography notes
KEY TERMS: technical conventions, main cover image, main cover line, coverlines, pugs, plugs, insets, captions, masthead, fonts, language, tone, register. Even if you haven’t got your cover model photo, you can start to mock up, draft your front cover using your masthead design. Find an inspirational cover and use this as a guide. Create coverContinue reading Draft Cover Page