Marking Guide

Marking Guide

Monday 12 May 2014

EVALUATION FOR YEAR 10

Final Evaluation 

Min 800 Words

1. What have you learned about conventions and gender representations from your research?
                (Illustrate where you have used them etc)

2. What did you plan to do & Why?
                (Use your drafts and sketches)

3. Analysis of gender representations in your album cover using codes and signs. 
                (Include front & back cover)

4. Discuss your skills development
                 (Illustrate - Use print screens etc)

Thursday 24 April 2014

Homework Schedule - Y10

Now that you have begun work on your album covers. The expectation is that you carry on finessing your coursework as homework for the next few weeks. There will be a register that you can sign in to to say that you have attended. All of  the media rooms will be open to you to caryy this out. Post any changes you have made to your blog as a record of progress.

Thursday 3 April 2014

GCSE Y10 Easter Homework

During the week beginning June 23rd, you will be sitting a one hour exam based on Magazine Fron covers. you will be given one hour to answer three questions about an unseen magazine cover.

For your homework could you answer the following questions about the following Magazine cover.

Remember to use key terminology and that you are expected to write an hour's worth of writing!






 
1.What two conventions have I used & Why?
Conventions are: Mix of content, Aspiration tone, Direct mode of address & model or celebrity on the front cover.
 
2.What are the effects of my Layout, Typography, Colour choice and Language Choice
Effect means what does it say to the audience. Essentially you need to talk about the connotations of all of these things.

Layout - Is it symmetrical (ordered and sophisticated) or asymmetrical (chaotic and youthful). What Balance does it have? (refer to your past work on balance)

Typography: Is is serif or sans serif? Does it cover hand writing?

Language: Have you use exlamatives (exclamation marks), alliteration (multiple words with the same letter), imperatives (a command) or a pun (a funny play on words)?

3.What issues of representation have I presented?

Issues are potential problems that can be seen by the representation that you have presented. 
 
 
 
 

Thursday 13 March 2014

GCSE 10 Homework

Representation -

Find an image of a lifestyle magazine front cover on google. Add the image to your blog and dicuss it in terms of representation of -

Class
Gender
Ethnicity
Age
Sexuality
Religion

Not all of the representations may be evident, so if the representation is obviously not part of your chosen publications audience, do not attempt to cro-bar it in. For example, FHM is unlikely to contain religious representations.

Use evidence in terms of conventions and media language in your discussions. For example the font choice for the cover line on working in the city is in a Serif font, Serif fonts generally connote wealth and class, so the font choice is appropriate to the content of the magazine.

For Thursday 20th March

Thursday 6 March 2014

Mr Jackson's Class Homework

Answer the following questions relating to your magazine cover...

1.What two conventions have I used & Why?
Conventions are:  Mix of content, Aspiration tone, Direct mode of address & model or celebrity on the front cover.

2.What are the effects of my Layout, Typography, Colour choice and Language Choice

Effect means what does it say to the audience. Essentially you need to talk about the connotations of all of these things.

Layout - Is it symmetrical (ordered and sophisticated) or asymmetrical (chaotic and youthful). What Balance does it have? (refer to your past work on balance)

Typography: Is is serif or sans serif? Does it cover hand writing?

Language: Have you use exlamatives (exclamation marks), alliteration (multiple words with the same letter), imperatives (a command) or a pun (a funny play on words)?


3.What issues of representation have I presented?

Issues are potential problems that can be seen by the representation that you have presented.



DUE TUESDAY 11th MARCH