Homework - 30th September 2015

Codes and convention of a magazine front cover

Here's a good guide to your magazine cover analysis.

Below that are the lesson slides in general to help you with textual analysis.

Create PPt slides with your own annotated magazine covers please. Thanks all. Mr. Baines.

Getting started with photoshop

Good morning, good afternoon and good morrow, eager and most skilled year 10 students. Photoshop skills are a must for anyone hoping for an A or an A* at Media Studies, and it's an awful lot of fun too. Now, some of you already have some super Photoshop skills, whilst some of you are just getting started. Rule number 1 if you know how to do clever stuff on Photoshop: Share your knowledge!

The aim for this exercise is to produce a single cover for a made up music artist (or a made up single for an actual music artist).

The dimensions you need are basically a square (how it would appear on digital only distribution sites such as iTunes and GooglePlay_ - 1400 pixel x 1400 pixel, 300 pixels per inch (PPI).

Try to include at least 3 of the following:

1. How to touch up a photo; how to make people look better
2. Layers and adjustment layers; what are they and how to use them
3. Working with layer masks
4. How to crop a photo
5. Adjusting the exposure and using the Adobe Camera Raw filter
6. Removing something from an image
7. Move or copy objects in a photo
8. How to put a person from one photo onto a new background (or putting two photos together)
9. How to add text
10. Saving photos and saving formats that are shareable

Here's mine ( I know you can do so much better!):

And here's a tutorial link:

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL - CLICK HERE!

Homework - week 2

Remember that your homework for week 2 is to create a 3 day media diary (in whichever format you wish – e.g. paper, vlog, blog, Dictaphone, instagram etc.).

You should include:

Location / time

What I ‘consumed’ - watched, listened to, read, played or interacted with.

Activity (what else were you doing at the time – e.g. chatting with friends / my homework(!) etc.)

Reflections – thoughts about what you consumed…

 Due on the 25^th September.

Kind regards. Mr. Baines

Example: