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Hi

Hope you find the student blogs interesting. They can be accessed using the menu to the right, or via the bloghub tab at the top. If you have any queries, please contact me via the following email address:

chris.earl@fram.durham.sch.uk

Thanks

A good example...

Although it's about an A2 project, Kathryn's "codes and conventions" film is well worth a look if you're struggling for ideas about how to do your first answer.

http://musicisalwaysaround.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/evaluation-question-1.html

Evaluation

Please see below for the slides from the evaluation presentation this morning:

 

Birds with arms

Just... birds with arms

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26343700

Zoe Crick! An example of what I mean

I've had a look at your video, Zoe, and have done an edit with music to show you what I mean. Thinking about it, I think you need something else within the pursuit (either figures monitoring it and commenting on it or some sort of V/O... not sure yet, will need to think about it...



Catch (Zoe Crick) - with music - Chris Earl on Vimeo.

Deadline confusion

Slight confusion over deadlines. In terms of when you need stuff shot/ editing:

• You have until 31st January to get everything shot (next Friday) although if you need to, you could shoot stuff next weekend
• You need a rough cut on your blog by the end of 14th February (end of this half term)
• You need your final cut on your blog by the end of 7th March

This gives you one week to shoot any remaining footage, then two weeks to do your rough cut and two weeks to complete your final cut.

You should, of course, begin editing as soon as you can. You should also keep in mind the evaluation questions, since you will need to begin this as soon as your edit is finished.

Narrative and Creativity

There was a very interesting programme on Rado 4 yesterday from a series called "The Human Zoo" (which I'd never heard before; I think it's about psychology). The focus was on storytelling and creativity. Although not media-specific, it is well worth a listen with regard to both narrative theory and creativity, both of which are important to A2 media. Link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03q8z3z

In particular, there was an interview with Professor Mark Turner on creativity; his website is below:

http://markturner.org/index.html

You might also consider listening to The Media Show, which will keep you abreast of interetsing current developments in the media, particularly in terms of regulation:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dv9hq