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FOLDERS FOR EXAMS

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In order to survive the revision stage, you need to be organised.

Go back through Classroom and all your google docs and copy all presentations, essays over into the following folders. Some of these will be on the blog too so why not go through the blog posts and get your own copies before POMO starts. If everything is in specific places it will be an awful lot easier to revise.

TV DRAMA

  • Exemplar essays
  • Your essays – Coming down the Mountain, Downton Abbey, Dr Who, Hustle
  • Glossary of terms for MES, Camera, Editing and Sound

MUSIC INDUSTRY

  • Exemplar essays
  • Your essays – Ownership and Marketing or Digital Distribution
  • Presentations – The Big 3, 2018 Marketing PDF Case Studies, Music presentation.
  • Audience
  • BPI figures/facts and stats
  • Case studies

SKILLS

  • Exemplar Essays
  • Your essays – Digital Technology, Research and Planning (only Conventions left to do)
  • Skills story templates
  • Conventions story template (the black box one)
  • Skills slideshare
  • Mock Feedback

CONCEPTS

  • Theorists booklet ( on the blog at the top)
  • Exemplar essays
  • Concepts Slideshare
  • Your essays – Narrative, Audience, Media language and Representation (only Genre left to do)
  • Text Deconstructed Template
  • Mock Feedback

POSTMODERN MEDIA

  • Jameson and case studies
  • Baudrillard and case studies
  • Lyotard and case studies
  • Your essays
  • Your presentations (glossary terms, Simpsons)
  • Postmodern overview presentation

There is a post in classroom with some Revision Templates so that you can start to plan your revision in small bitesize chunks.

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The Golden Gregsons – Your Nomination

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The Golden Gregsons are happening soon:

  • Where – The Performing Arts Center
  • When – 19th March 2019. 6.30 – 10.00 PM

We want to submit your music promo package into one of the award categories.

To do this you must submit your final product as follows:

  1. Create a new folder in the D Drive called, ‘The Name of Your Song, The name(s) of the film makers”. So for example:
    • “Media Madness. Mrs Cobb & Mr Gregson”
  2. In this folder you should put:
    • A copy of the whole video.
    • A 30-40 second clip to be played as the videos are nominated.
    • 4 x JPEG copies of the four panes of your digipack.
    • 4 x JPEG screen grabs / snips of your website
  3. Copy this whole folder into: P:\Golden Gregsons 2019\A2 Video, Digi & Web
  4. THIS IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO DO THE VIDEO SEQUENCE:To do this, use the work space marker at the top of the sequence to select your chosen section. When you go to export, make sure you select ‘Work space’ as opposed to ‘Entire Sequence’

Sign up to WeVideo

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Your third CCR will be edited in WeVideo, which means you can edit from home.

One of your group will need to sign up to WeVideo and join the Media Studies group.

All Film Studies students should already be signed up and members of WeVideo.

Otherwise you will need to sign up in three stages.

  1. Sign Up for a Free WeVideo Account (this should still be active from last year)
    • Please use your school Google to sign up / in.
  2. Follow this invitation link to the school WeVideo Account
  3. Check that you have been invited to the project entitled:
    • Apprentice Vlog 2018

OR YOU CAN EDIT IT ON PREMIERE PRO BUT YOU MIGHT WANT WE VIDEO FOR YOUR CCR4 REFLECTIONS AND YOU CAN ALSO DO THE EDITING AT HOME.

Copyright Infomation

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Copyright Info

© & Ⓟ Your name/band name, year. All rights of the produced and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved. Unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited.

A Golden Opportunity

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A not to be missed opportunity is coming to Guernsey. As creative arts students you should try and cultivate an interest and engage with all the visual arts and also try and network and build up your contacts. You should go to this…

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First Week Back

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Hello campers!  We hope you had a marvellous break and are all refreshed and ready to rock n roll!

These are what you need to ensure are up to date before Monday when we move on to the Dikipak and Website design elements of your coursework.

  1. Submit the NARRATIVE ESSAY – if you haven’t done so, then you are already 50% behind on your exam preparation and another ESSAY is coming your way on Monday.
  2.  Redraft your NARRATIVE ESSAY based on the feedback you received.
  3. CREATE FOLDERS FOR CONCEPTS (narrative, media language, representation, audience and genre) and SKILLS (digital technology, conventions, research and planning).
  4.  Ensure your blog is completely up to date.
  5.  Review the written detailed feedback on your video i.e. Draft 4 to see what else you can do editing wise or getting pick up shots to make sure it is as good as it can be. There will be NO MORE LESSON time allocated to this so this has to be in your own time.  The feedback will be shared with you on your return.  We  mark this at half term so this is the absolute deadline for Component 3 – no extensions.
  6. FREE MEDIA ROOMS: make a note of when this room is free – timetable on door.
  7. BLOG DROP IN – Wednesday lunchtime.

We march on next week so start your final year in the way you mean to go on: a blog post a day and spending independent study time usefully either in the media classrooms or in the study areas.

Good luck!

First Opportunity:

Social Media Festival

Setting the Project Cache

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A feature of Premiere is that it likes all it’s project material in one place, in one folder in one drive.

After the recent upgrade Adobe has now reset the default location of the ‘Media Cache’. (A hidden folder which Premiere uses to write temporary files to when applying effects and transitions). Premiere now writes these files to your My Documents folder, which is on a network drive and so your project files are not in one place! This may cause Premiere to run badly, crash and burn.

To fix this you need to redirect Premiere to write the Media Cache to your project folder in the D Drive .

To do this open your project and go to Edit > Media Cache.

You then need to change the location by going to Browse, selecting your project folder in the D drive, create a new folder called ‘Cache’ and select it.

Updating your Blog

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As we move into A2 production you will need to update your blog. This means:

  • A new brief on the home page, which you can access through ‘Pages’ rather than ‘Posts’.
  • New menu items for the new production tasks and Creative Critical Reflections.
  • A new menu system, which lists your production work under:
    • Component 1 (The Music Magazine)
    • Component 2 (The Cross Media Production)

Please carefully read and follow the instructions in  this document, which give a step by step guide to updating your blog.

This also means a new blog league, which you can find in the new menu at the top of this blog.