A useful website on Genre theory

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre1.html

Evaluation questions

Your evaluation needs to be prepared for the week beginning Monday 14th February 2011.

In your evaluation you need to answer the following questions:


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

2.How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3.What have you learned from your audience feedback?

4.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Media Showcase

• To be presented to an invited audience next Wednesday 9th Feb 2011 at 12.45 in MS1
• Design your invites & questionnaires ready to give out at the showcase
• Present your poster and magazine cover first

GOOD LUCK!

Amended deadlines due to SNOW!

We are now VERY pushed for time due to the snow.
The new deadlines are as follows:
Complete ALL editing by Friday 14th Jan 2011
Complete BOTH magazine front cover and film poster by Friday 21st Jan 2011.

Extra editing times - please meet Mr Varghese at the following times:

Group 1 (Sahar): Monday 1 & 2; Tuesday 3 & 4
Group 2 (Mehreen): Tuesday 3 & 4; Wed 5 & 6
Group 3 (Louise): Monday 3 & 4; Thursday 3 & 4 & Friday Period 6
Group 4 (Maria): Thursday 3 & 4 and Friday 1 & 2

Deadlines

ALL filming must be complete and ALL footage captured by Friday 17th December 2010.
You can obviously begin the editing process before that date if you are ready!

A2 Media Studies: questions to consider for the evaluation

You need to be thinking about these questions all the time as they must be addressed in your evaluation.:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

These questions need to be answered in a formal or informal presentation to the whole class.

Watch this programme!

A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss - Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood

Monday 11 October 2010
9.00-10.00 BBC Four

This programme looks very interesting and will provide you with lots of background into Hammer and early horror films. The first in a series.

iplayer link to episode 1
iplayer link to episode 2