Today in class we had different aims to achieve in the lesson.

1.) How can I develop my blogging skills?

- I accomplished this by going onto 'www.hurtwoodmedia09.blogspot' and analyse a students coursework throughout the year. I found it very helpful to see where this student was last year compared to where i am now. By looking at how different students present their work, puts my work into perspective. I can now look at my work and know if i am meeting the standards and hopefully above! 

2.) To use the assessment objectives to assess students performance.

-I chose to look at Hugo Brown, who was an A2 student last year. I am a friend of his and at the time of his music video preparation i remember talking about his location of filming and remembering how much i liked it. He chose to shoot in an old abandoned mansion near london. He used his location to relate to an 'indie' band, but i believe that it could relate to other genres of music as-well.

3.) Sign up to twitter

We ran out of time today to create a twitter account but will be pushed forward to a different lesson.

4.)Presentation on how Critical Perspectives (the exam) fits with our coursework

The exam and the coursework are 100 marks each.

The coursework:

- Advanced portfolio which will involve producing a main artefact (music video), two ancillary artefacts and accompanies blog containing my research, planning and evaluating materials.

-For the music video I will need to work in a team as a small independent production company. I will need to meet the following brief: *a cover for a release on CD *a magazine advertisement for the CD.

The Exam:

Section A: THEORETICAL EVALUATION OF PRODUCTION (50 MARKS)

Section B: CONTEMPORARY MEDIA ISSUES (50 MARKS)

Section 1) Questions 1A will involve analysing your my own product using the following concept:  Digital technology, creativity, research, planning, post production, using conventions of real media texts. My teacher Jason said i should be asking myself questions such as, 'why and what benefit did i get?'

Question 1B will involve analysing my own product using: genre, narrative, representation, audience, and media language.

Section 2) Question 2A will involve discussing a key media concept using a range of texts from A2 MEDIA. We will be looking at media in the 'online age'.