Poppy GCSE Media Blog

Homework due 25/02/25:

 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...

 Thursday 25th May 2023 My website so far

 Tuesday 23rd May 2023 LO: To create effective logos and a clear brand identity. colour- I used these colours to make up the cookie because i wanted it to have a natural link and these are the colours of a cookie. shape- I used a circle because they are the shape associated with a warm and welcoming place and also they are the shape of most cookies. font style- I used this font because i think it goes well with the logo and also it gives off the welcoming and homey vibe i was going for. Design- I use the colours tan and brown. The font was a baking font from DaFont.  Colour- I used purple and the colours of the baked goods because the connotations of purple are peace and creativity. Again, I wanted the baked goods to look natural because i think crazy coloured ones would just ruin the logo. shape- I used a circle again because they are associated with coziness and because there are no corners circles are unable to harm you. font style- I went with the same style as last time b...

Thursday 11th May 2023  LO: To explore the concept of branding and to create an effective brand image. Brand name: Sweet as Sugar What it does/purpose: provides recipes for teens USP: Provides baking tips as well as recipes. It is specifically targeted to teens so all the recipes will be ones that are easy for beginners. Target audience: teenagers 1. What similarities are there? most of them have calligraphy for their writing, all of them include their name and some sort of animated cake or baking equipment, all of them are in a circle. They all look quite elegant and homey. 2. How are their USPs shown? For the one in the top left, it looks as if it is targeted towards people in their 20s but some of the others are targeted towards older people. Two of them are vegan baking companies. 3. How do they link the slogan and the logo? These logos don't show the slogan. Tuesday 16th May 2023 Do Now: 7/9 1. Volkswagen  2. Manchester United? 3. Nike 4. Lidl 5. Costa Coffee 6.  7. ...

 Tuesday 9th May 2023 LO: To explore and develop creative techniques in photoshop.

  Tuesday 9th May 2023 LO: To research website design, genre conventions and terminology. To create an effective homepage for a new site of your choice. Brand name: Sweet treats Type of brand: Baking What we do: delicious recipes to make Aim of site: To provide easy recipes for teenagers to make and enjoy. Site content: recipes and baking tips Target audience: 15-18 year olds Unique selling point: The website not only provides recipes but also baking tip. Also, it is going to consist only of easy recipes considering the age group it is targeted at have a lot of revision and studying to do. They can make the treat and study with one or put them in the oven and while waiting for them to be done revise. Do Now: 1. What colour scheme is used and how does it link to the genre/product/company? The colour schemes are neutral colours like beige and white, sometimes with a bit of pink. This links to baking because it is seen as a calming task and they are calming and beautiful colours, like...

 Tuesday 25th April 2023 LO: To evaluate and review our News Day project. In our group there were three members: Me, George and Lauren. Lauren asked the interview questions and helped us edit the clips together. She also helped to write the report and anchor introduction while George was an anchor and also helped to edit. I was an anchor with George and introduced all of the stories, including our own. I was also a reporter, and edited it and i wrote the anchor introduction and the story. We were researching and writing about the student protests that occurred at Penrice Academy a few months ago. My favourite part of this was filming the anchor introductions because i found it fun to read off of the autocue. My least part was the editing as me and my dear friend George had to edit all of the anchor introductions and therefore had to watch ourselves. I learnt how to work a camera and to not be awkward while being filmed. My editing skills also improved. I learnt that the news proces...

Tuesday 28th February 2023 LO: to explore the concept and format of news. Education: -School girls humiliated by staff skirt inspections. Pupils at Merseyside school claim they have had their skirt length inspected by male teachers. Family: - when do parents find out about secondary school places? councils will soon be offering secondary school places to children in England and Wales. Health: - Parents to be offered weaning advice for babies a series of local family hubs will be opened in England after a survey showed knowledge gaps existed different types of news stories: -Politics       -Uk -Climate      -World - sport          -Tech -business     -Entertainment  -local           -Celebrity -Human interest Fake News: -the people who want you to believe the war in Ukraine is fake. -French TV host suspended in 'news for hire' scandal -Could AI swamp social media with fake accoun...

Thursday 9th February 2023 LO: To plan, film and edit an effective sequence. Our trailer was a love story between me and Lauren. She proposed to me and then we had a marriage scene and a first dance. We also had a scene of us doing a hand clap and some scenes of us individually.

 Thursday 26th January 2023 LO: To plan and construct an effective green screen scene. -Poppy -George -Lauren LAUREN: Tonight, there has been an unfortunate turn of events for Lloyds Bank (by your side) down in London. Where it was unfortunately robbed 2 hours ago by 2 males dressed as Barbie and Ken. The police have arrested a suspect however we don't have any information current- POPPY: HIIIII excusez-moi do you know where the closest Costa is? I could really go for a latte right now. LAUREN: Wow, not like I was doing anything over here! POPPY: Well i'm sorry but i NEED my latte! I'm going through a crisis. LAUREN: I don't care about your probably stupid crisis. POPPY: Well Asda closed down, I need a few days to mentally recover. LAUREN: As I said... stupid  POPPY: DON'T YOU DARE CRITICISE OUR LORD AND SAVIOU R ASDA LAUREN: SECURITY! SECURITY! POPPY: Oh my... am i on the news... HEY SUSAN.... I MADE IT ON TV LAUREN: You know what.. I cant anymore... I quit! POPPY:...

  Tuesday 17th January 2023 LO: To explore the different features of IMovie & experiment with different genre features. Tuesday 24th January 2023 Do now: I decided to change Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban from a fantasy to a comedy by reversing Snape when he enters the classroom to make it look like he was slamming the door, I added some light comedic music and slowed down the scene where harry smashed into the glass on the bus. WWW: I  didn't have much time so i focused on the bits that i did have time to do more so they looked good. EBI: Next time i could finish it as i was off school for the first lesson of IMovie so i couldn't finish it. Also i didn't cut off the end that i hadn't had the chance to finish SFX  LO: To create a realistic green screened clip using IMovie. SFX - special effects.  What is included under special effects? -CGI -Stop motion -Motion control -prosthetics -pyrotechnics  -green screen CGI-   computer-generated imagery...

Tuesday 10th January 2022 Task: Choose a film from one genre and explain, in detail, how you would change it to a different genre. For this task, I chose Harry Potter and the goblet of fire from the fantasy genre to turn into a comedy. Locations: The first location I would change in this film is the black lake. There are horrifying creatures in there, and the water is incredibly dark, hence it being called the black lake. One of the conventions of comedy is happiness and light, so you could change the colour of the water in the black lake to a clear blue (which would include more comedy because the water is a bright blue but it's still called the black lake), and still have some creatures but things such as innocent looking water snakes, or a funny-looking three eyed fish. The second location i would change is the library as in the film it's again incredibly dark. It is set at night, however I would change the time of day to daytime and then have the characters enter the librar...

 Tuesday 6th December 2022 L/O: To explore the concept of film genre. Do Now: Film Genres: Comedy Fantasy Action adventure Sci-fi Horror Drama Thriller Romance Western Documentaries Crime Animation Period drama Family? Kids? Musical Rom-Com (is a hybrid) Action-Comedy (is a hybrid) Music Christmas? Genre - A style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set of characteristics. Hybrid - mixture of of 2 or more genres. Sub-genres - categories a genre can be divided into.  Animation: Frozen The Emoji Movie Beauty and the beast Cinderella Snow White Sleeping Beauty Moana Tangled Princess and the frog Coco Wall-E Inside Out Soul Up Monsters Inc. Lady and the Tramp Animation Sub-Genres: Fantasy Music Adventure Romance Comedy Animated Film Research: 1) Find out and list the main genre conventions for your genre. 1) Some of the main genre conventions from animation are: Hero - In every animated film there is always someone who is going to save the day in the nick of time. ...