Coursework Completion Tasks

You MUST have your work completed and ready for marking by 6pm on Tuesday 2nd May.

Please ensure that you read and follow the instructions below:

TASK 1

Ensure that all Research, Planning and Construction evidence is correctly and clearly labelled via individual blog post titles. 

Remember that this should be the case for all 3 pages of your blog : Music Video, CD Digipack and Music Magazine Advertisement.

Your blog should show a journey from the start of the year to your completed film products. 

Think about the 4 key words in relation to all of your posts - are they minimal, basic, good or excellent? 

You need the majority of posts to be good or excellent!

TASK 2

Your completed music video, CD Digipack and Music Magazine Advertisement must be available to view on your blog and clearly titled as the finished product. 

Word these as follows:

"Run" Jasmine Thompson Completed Music Video (embedded from Youtube)
"Run" Jasmine Thompson Completed CD Digipack (embedded as a .jpeg file)
"Run" Jasmine Thompson Completed Music Magazine Advertisement for X Magazine (embedded as a .jpeg file)

TASK 3

Your evaluation should follow your embedded music video on the main page of your blog. This must be posted in question order (1-4).

I will take some photos of you all delivering your presentation to include on your blog.

TASK 4

You must hide all of the comments that are on your blog.

In order to do this go to DESIGN mode for your blog and click on Settings.

Click on Posts and Comments

Click on the drop down menu next to Comment Location (as shown below) and select Hide.

Make sure you click on Save settings before you leave the page.

TASK 5

The last task for you to perform on your blog is to delete the link to my blog! This is important - please do not forget.

Research - Conventions Of MMAs

Once you have researched music magazines and identified the magazine that you think your artist's album would be most likely to be advertised in, you can go on to research the conventions of music magazines advertisements. 

Look at a selection of mmas in order to identify and analyse conventions on a wider basis to begin with - use advertisements for albums from multiple genres. 

Your analysis of these mmas needs to show that you have thought carefully about the purpose and effect of different aspects of a music magazines design. For example, think about the following:

• Artist's name - placement? font style? font size? colour? relationship to other aspects of the mma? relationship to the artist's image and visual presence elsewhere? (ask if you don't understand...)
  
• Album title - placement? font style? font size? colour?
  
• Image(s) - what is usual? is the artist's image more likely or less likely to be used? could this change according to genre? What other sorts of images are used and do these reflect the genre of the artist?
  
• Other - what else could be included? why choose to include these things? how do they support the promotional nature of a mma?

Remember that you are focussing on Conventions at this point.

Here is one example we will have looked at in class:

 

 

MMA Research

As your first post on your MMA page, use the images below to describe the initial conversations we had about music magazines.

Which music magazine do you think your artist's album would be most likely to be advertised in and why?

Q Magazine Media Pack

Mixmag Media Pack