Saturday, September 6, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
AS Radio Coursework - Getting Started with Blogger
The majority of the marks that you receive for you AS Media Studies coursework are for the five minute radio extract that you produce. You do, however, receive substantial marks for both your Research and Planning and your Evaluation.
These elements of your coursework must be recorded on a blog, so that I can chart your progress but also so that the moderator can access this information at the end of the year.
The first thing that you must do, before you get started on the research and planning, is set up a blogger account. It is easy to do and, thankfully, blogger is easy to use! Blogger enables you to write text (in a similar way to word), but also offers the opportunity to add images, sound clips, videos and links to websites that you may have used in your research.
Speak to Alex or Jon about setting up a blog account or simply click on the link below to begin.
If you already have a google/gmail account, you can log in that way. Give your blog a title (something along the lines of your name and AS Media Blog) and create a blog address - and you are good to go. I will show you all individually how to use the blog, but it really is easy to use. Just play around with it and you will find you will know exactly what you are doing in next to no time!
When using blogger, it is essential that you do not simply write huge chunks of text - instead, every post that you put up should include other elements that help illuminate what you are saying.
Get into the habit of adding images related to what you are saying, sound clips from various stages of your recording and editing, links to external websites and to your own posts and even videos that help support the points you are making.
The board expect you to use blogger's full capabilities and this will enable me to give you the highest marks possible for both the Research and Planning and the Evaluation sections of your coursework.
Click on the links below to get a better idea of what I mean regarding images, links, sound clips and videos.
These elements of your coursework must be recorded on a blog, so that I can chart your progress but also so that the moderator can access this information at the end of the year.
The first thing that you must do, before you get started on the research and planning, is set up a blogger account. It is easy to do and, thankfully, blogger is easy to use! Blogger enables you to write text (in a similar way to word), but also offers the opportunity to add images, sound clips, videos and links to websites that you may have used in your research.
Speak to Alex or Jon about setting up a blog account or simply click on the link below to begin.
If you already have a google/gmail account, you can log in that way. Give your blog a title (something along the lines of your name and AS Media Blog) and create a blog address - and you are good to go. I will show you all individually how to use the blog, but it really is easy to use. Just play around with it and you will find you will know exactly what you are doing in next to no time!
When using blogger, it is essential that you do not simply write huge chunks of text - instead, every post that you put up should include other elements that help illuminate what you are saying.
Get into the habit of adding images related to what you are saying, sound clips from various stages of your recording and editing, links to external websites and to your own posts and even videos that help support the points you are making.
The board expect you to use blogger's full capabilities and this will enable me to give you the highest marks possible for both the Research and Planning and the Evaluation sections of your coursework.
Click on the links below to get a better idea of what I mean regarding images, links, sound clips and videos.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
AS Foundation Production Coursework - Introduction
Now the term has properly started, we will be focusing our efforts in the first few months on the AS coursework - researching and planning a local radio show that you must script, record and edit.
Keep an eye on the blog for tips regarding the planning tasks and examples of previous students' work that should help you with your planning.
I will try and post help and advice for each of the planning tasks, but also support regarding the recording and editing process and the evaluation (which you will complete after Christmas).
Keep an eye on the blog for tips regarding the planning tasks and examples of previous students' work that should help you with your planning.
I will try and post help and advice for each of the planning tasks, but also support regarding the recording and editing process and the evaluation (which you will complete after Christmas).
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