Monday, March 27, 2023
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Friday, March 24, 2023
Monday, March 20, 2023
Friday, March 10, 2023
Minecraft construction
Minecraft Construction Task
Every successful media construction requires research, planning, production and evaluation.
Even though sales are stronger than ever, Minecraft are trying to encourage all those young Fortnite, Among us fans to fall in love with the game as much as the older teens. You have been hired to come up with some merchandise ideas for Minecraft targeting both genders and aimed at a 7-16 audience.
Create a google slide or similar and include:
Research
What has been some of most successful merchandise aimed at this age group so far. eg Star Wars, Toy Story, Frozen
What other Minecraft merchandise is available currently? Show some examples.
Planning
Look at some print adverts and decide what the conventions are. Plan a design or describe your idea.
Production
Choose the programme you'd like to make your product on and design your product making sure you believe in its success and that it fits print advert conventions.
Evaluation
What was the task you were assigned?
What programme did you use to complete your task?
What tools did you use from your programme to create your task ie font websites, crop, colour changes etc?
What were the biggest obstacles to completing your task?
Describe your production and why you chose the various text headings and images?
What was your initial feedback? What did others say about your production?
Identify what went well and with hindsight what would you do differently?
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Wix check
For industry and audience on your wixes you should have:
Film industry 1967 and 2016 Jungle Book
Jungle Book notes
Fact sheet on google slides
Jungle Book group essays
Three Column comparison 1967 production/marketing/distribution/exchange (cinemas or Disney plus for eg) technology (including platforms for watching)
Jungle Book interview
Jungle Book DIRT/Assessment feedback
Radio industry and audiences
Radio notes
Fact sheet slides
Radio schedule
Use essay question video guide to answer question using relevant examples from notes and schedule (one side of A4)
Radio Podcast
Radio reflection
JB Dirt
Minecraft
Minecraft notes
Minecraft fact sheet and video notes link added to your slides
Timeline
Education/Block by block UN charity work - any other charity work? Research
Relationship with Microsoft and Why was distributing Minecraft a good
move for Sony?
Rise of online - Slide 17 read and answer Minecraft Revision.pdf - Google Drive
What's steam and twitch - screen grab images
Minecon
Audience as producers - prosumers, where have audiences been crucial in the production process?
Minecraft marketing
Minecraft essay questions
Minecraft quiz
Big Issue
Wix link with new slides for Big Issue notes
Student Big Issue covers analyses
Advertising
Create new slides - Ads will be Old Spice, Lucozade and Shelter
Old Spice notes
Old Spice 10 marker question
Music Video
Upload your CEMS and Rep notes
Choose a question to answer 10 marks = 15 minutes of writing