Poppy GCSE Media Blog

 Friday 13th December 2024 PPE Dirt Section A: Exploring Media Language and Representation Possible texts: - Magazines (Vogue & GQ) - Marketing (film posters) - Newspapers - Print advertisements (Quality Street & This Girl Can) There are two questions in this section: - One question assessing media language in relation to one set product (stepped). - One two-part question assessing representation in relation to one set product and one unseen resource in the same media form. Part (a) is based on media contexts. Part (b) requires comparison through an extended response. Narrative - the plot or the storyline. USE THE WORDS CONVENTIONS AND CONNOTATIONS !!

Tuesday 11th July 2023 LO: To explore and understand how to use InDesign for magazine layouts. Thursday 13th July 2023 LO: To create an effective magazine cover using appropriate codes and conventions. Colour scheme: -pink     -white -blue     -black (not much)

 Thursday 29th June 2023 LO: Explore the use of Adobe Illustrator to create a magazine masthead. Sub-genre: Baking Quite large but simple fonts. MAGAZINE TITLE: the Baker's Guide 1) The hobby I am doing is baking. 2) The name of my magazine will be The Baker's Guide. 3) The genre conventions i need to use are neutral colours, bright main images. In some baking magazines the mastheads are all one solid colour, often blue. the main image is also ALWAYS of a baked good.

 Tuesday 20th June 2023 LO:  To identify the features on a magazine front cover; to explore genre codes and conventions. Do Now:   The different categories of magazine: Children's magazines Codes and Conventions: They all use bright colours that pop out They all use big bold fonts Most have animals on them Some have animated humans Zoomed in shot type They are all very busy with words, logos, pictures and some have items that come with the magazine. Sub-Genres: Rock Pop Heavy metal Country Rap Jazz Blues Pop magazine covers These magazines all have bright colours.  They all focus on one person rather than groups. The text is all in bold. The main image is always the person the magazine is about. Baking: Colour palette- Neutral colours where some link to the main image. They also use a lot of gold and red. Main images- They show some of the most popular recipes and desserts shown within the magazine. Typography- They use simple fonts as if hand-written and don't use m...

 Thursday 15th June 2023 LO:  To identify the features on a magazine front cover; to explore genre codes and conventions. Masthead- The title/name of the magazine. The top in the centre or the left. Dateline - The date. The top right of the magazine in small print/somewhere around the masthead. Main image - The picture. In the centre of the entire magazine. Is the biggest part. Covers the whole of the page. Cover lines - Sentences that give a brief summary of what is in the magazine. The centre on the right of the magazine. Around the main image. Main cover lines - The sentence that covers the most appealing feature of what is in the magazine. The centre on the left.It links to the main image. Bar code/ price - How much it is. Next to the dateline/at the bottom in the corner. Tagline/ Strapline - One short phrase that describes the purpose, product or service of the magazine. Found at the top in the centre above the title/around the masthead. Pull quote - A quote taken from a...

Thursday 15th June 2023 LO:  to refine and evaluate my website.  Website link: https://poppyd2020.wixsite.com/my-site-2 Homepage screenshots: I also started to design and create the cookies page as i had extra time. Evaluation: My website- my website is called Sweet as Sugar and it is a baking site that provides recipes and it is aimed towards teenagers. Some of the recipes included cakes, cupcakes, cookies and brownies. I wanted the site to provide easy recipes so it could be inclusive of all different skill levels. Also, a lot of teenagers have to study so the idea was that they could quickly make one of these and enjoy them while doing work. How i made it- I started off with a template for a cooking website and altered it to fit my brand. I used a text box to put in my title and then just changed the font. I imported my logo from photoshop and then added the menu buttons. I then changed all the pictures to fit my baking site and changed the text to provide recipes and als...