Thursday 18 April 2013

FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO IN MEDIA
CANDIDATE NAME: LAURA SIMMONS
CANDIDATE NUMBER: 1515
WOKING COLLEGE 64986

Saturday 13 April 2013

Ideas For How To Present Evaluation Questions

Today i was brainstorming ways i can present my answers to my evaluation of my work, these are some of the ideas i came up with and i will choose which one to use for each of the eight questions depending on what will look best.
  • Prezi
  • Slideshare
  • Go Animate
  • Gif
  • Video
  • Podcast
  • Spider Diagram
  • Poster
  • Essay
  • Screen recording

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Easter Holidays Update

WEEK 1

Tuesday PM Revision Session- Today i finished my construction of my front cover and began working further on the construction of my contents page.

Thursday PM Revision Session- Today i continued with my contents page and began the computer drafts. 

WEEK 2 

Saturday 06/04/13- Today I was working on the construction of my contents page.

Sunday 07/04/13- Today I finished my contents page and wrote my article.

Monday 08/04/13- Today I was working on the construction of my article.

Tuesday 09/04/13- Unfortunately my computer crashed and my memory stick corrupted and I completely lost my contents page and article although they were saved to both computer and memory stick. A computer technician came round to try and restore the work but unfortunately there is no way they could restore it and I am going to have to begin again. I now have Photoshop on my Mum's laptop to use for my coursework and plan to do extra essay question practice after the coursework deadline and focus on catching up on the lost work.

Wednesday 10/04/13- I started on writing out my evaluation questions so I can put them into different media formats on Friday.

Thursday 11/04/13- Today i completed my computer drafts and re-wrote my article.

Friday 12/04/13- Today i finished the reconstruction of my article and contents page and planned my evaluation questions.

Saturday 13/04/13- Today i wrote out more of my evaluation questions. 

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Media Coursework Update 10

Since my return from the New York trip i have been working on my construction of my magazine. I have fallen behind whilst catching up with other subjects and my time management has become an issue. To solve this problem i plan to timetible my workload so that i spend an equal amount of time for each subject, especially focussing time towards the subjects i am behind in. I will come to as many revision sessions in the Easter holidays as possible so that i can use the college facililities to get work done. I think if i put enough effort in i can catch up where i have fallen behind. I previously addressed time management an issue as i knew it would be problematic when trying to reach deadlines. Im going to focus on working at a steady pace so that i reach my final deadline rather than getting worked up over preliminary deadlines.

Monday 25 February 2013

New Smart Targets

From recieving feedback from my teacher on my research and planning i can see i need to work on my developement and my exploration of my work. My work is under-developed and therefore not up to a high enough standard which i am capable of achieving.

Another key issue from my original Smart Targets which has remained a problem is time management. After meetings and discussions with my teachers i have planned to timetable my work load for each week around my schedule so that i balance my workload. I also plan to use the easter revision seshions to catch up and improve my work.

Finally i need to proof read all of my work, after reading through some of my teachers comments i can see many sentence faults, both with grammer and spelling.To improve this i need to read through my work again before publishing or printing anything and possibly getting someone else to read my work too to proof read it.


Sunday 24 February 2013

Media Coursework Update 9

I found that although I worked this half term on my media coursework in all available time I still have five tasks left to complete. As soon as I am back from New York I will stay at college to make sure I catch up with this work and any work I miss.

Tasks still to complete-

  • Podcast discussing genre mood boards
  • Write double page article
  • Pitch music magazine
  • 3rd hand drawn drafts
  • Computer generated drafts

Saturday 23 February 2013

InDesign Tutorial Video 4:

From watching this video I learnt that: 


  • Once you are happy with a font element, lock it down by right clicking then pressing lock.  To unlock hover over the lock symbol and click. 
  • Below font size you can tighten up line spacing also.
  • To change a text's boldness go to the bottom right corner and edit the weight of the stroke. 
  • To align text from this... 

  • To something like this... 

  • By clicking the indent tool like so until you are happy... 

  • To give your text box a background colour select your text box and click the fill tab like demonstrated below and choose a colour. 

OR


  • How to create a barcode from scratch- 

  1. Use the rectangle tool to draw a rectangle of a reasonable size. 
  2. Edit the colour to white, the same way as done above. 
  3. Draw using the line tool to create perfectly straight lines of different point weights (thickness/boldness).