The importance of fonts

Last year, the moderator of our coursework, suggested that students should do more work on fonts and spend more time developing their brand identity.  To help you with this, I've found the following resources online.  Have a look at each of these, then compose your own post about what elements you will need to consider when selecting your fonts.  Remember for your masthead, you shouldn't just choose the first font you come across  - you should try different styles and designs and really think about what is being communicated through your choice of lettering.  You must justify your final fonts choices in a blog post.


This history of typography is a good place to start:








This is a little bit long but makes some good points:








For those of you who would like to read more info, click here and here for some articles about typography

Finishing off your research and planning

You should now be working extra hard to make sure your research and planning is completed and doesn't eat into your construction time.  This blog has a few helpful posts.  Use the labels at the side to direct you to notes about photography and how to analyse a DPS.


Everyone should be completing tasks for their prep - please make sure you write down what you are going to do outside of lesson time and make sure you do it.  The deadline already seems quite close!

Blogger of the week...

A good start has been made to the blogs this year - well done everyone!  A few people are a little bit behind, so get those posts up to date!  Blogger of the week is......

DM!

Followed closely by Stacey and Honica.

Well done all, keep it up!

Welcome to Week 2

We are now into Week 2 of the coursework and I hope you are all getting to grips with blogger and the requirements of the task.  Later this week it will be time to start making your pages, so I hope you are all full of ideas.  We will do a brief introduction to Photoshop and you will start to think about how to edit your photos.  If you're stuck, remember you can have a look at work from previous years and of course, work from other schools...just have a look around the web

Welcome Newbies!

Welcome to a new group of AS Media Students and welcome to your Foundation Portfolio! In this module you will which make some pages from a student magazine and some pages from a music magazine.  Everything will need to be recorded on your blog...so if you want to see how students before you have tackled the work look over there ----->

This work is worth 50% of your final mark, so work hard but also enjoy it!

How to approach your evaluation

Follow the link below to see an example of a prezi which is related to the ways in which you can tackle your evaluation.  You should be able to embed it into your blog (although there are problems with this at the moment)

http://prezi.com/ioqv9fjhahoq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Questions for the Evaluation

Later this week I will be handing out the evaluation questions and a few pointers about how to answer them. In the meantime, I've included the questions here for anyone desperate to get started. Remember you can use a blog, powerpoint, video, podcast etc to answer these...

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have your learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?