Deadlines

Your films should be completed and uploaded to your blogs via you tube now.
On our return in January there will be no more lesson time on these. You will be preparing for your mock exams in February. Some of this exam will be analysing aspects of the film you have made (so, another reason to get it done).

You will be focusing on We Media with Miss Midwinter and Critical Perspectives with me.

After the mocks you will start work on the evaluation for the practical and this needs to be completed by February half term.

Clarification on music that can be used in documentary from OCR

For any option other than the music video candidates can only use 'found' material in a limited way. So if it is snippets that will only be used in a limited fashion in their piece then that is okay but if the found material is making up the majority of their soundtrack then that is really against the spirit of the specification.

The move away from 'found' material is to stop students just finding their favourite music track and putting over their video without any thought, editing or remixing to make it appropriate for their piece of work.

Kind Regards

Lisa
Media Support Team

Points to consider

1. Screen shot of how imovie looks at the moment
Comment on:
2. What has gone well, what have you been pleased with?
3. Have you discovered any useful tools? Screen shot them.
4. What has caused you problems? Techniques that have been tricky? How have you got round this?
5. ANy useful plug ins or sites that you've used?
6. WHat do you need to do by next lesson? Any more footage? Any more research?
7. How is your narrative/character/representation developing?

work in progress

Editing is going nicely for most of you. Don't forget to keep doing screen shots of where you are at in the editing process to add to your blog. You should be adding a diary type entry a few times a week about how your editing is going. What technology you are using and how the narrative is taking shape. It's likely that some of your ideas will be changing as you work and its a good idea to track these developments in terms of language, genre, character, narrative and representation as you will have to write about these elements in your critical perspectives exam.

Those of you who haven't filmed yet, the situation is getting very serious. If you haven't got any footage by next week then measures will be taken!!

Good place to download music for your videos from

Click here for link

Thanks Joe!

Wednesday 19th October

You need to be uploading an update after every lesson, not all of you are.

You must must must get your footage filmed over half term, see Ben if you need to borrow any equipment.
Use the handouts I gave you to ensure that you have enough research material, you should be coming towards the end of those activities now and when we return after half term you need to be editing your footage and thinking about your auxiliary products (poster, review etc).