Thursday 27th November;

In thursdays lesson i finally completed my research on the ITV channel. I then came back to my group and carried on bringing our ideas together on one big piece of paper. I think this is going to become great help when we need to come by choosing what themes/issues and storylines we want in the soap. I hope by next lesson to have all my reseach completed and stuck in my portfolio ready to start with the rest of our pre-preduction.
Today was a gooood day!


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Wednesday 26th November;

Now that we have began our Pre-Production we have alot of work to be completed by the end of the term, in four weeks. My group; Adam, Sofia, Keeley and myself have began researching on the five terrestrial channels; BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Ch4 and Ch 5 with Miss Barnett. We had a group discussion on what we were going to do for the four lessons which i found very useful. We then began our research on codes and conventions and hope to get this completed by the end of the lesson today. I began research on the setting of soaps, Adam researched on the Issues/Themes found in soaps, Sofia researched on the stereotypical character and Keeley got information on the Narrative. We have mangaed to complete alot of the work very well, which i am very please about.

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Welcome

Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. This is now going to be an essential part of the diploma and where some of your assessment will be done. It is really important that you use this blog to keep a record of work and of evaluation during the course. I will be using it to keep an eye on you.

Miss L

Work I have done so far;

Work I have done so far... :)

• Introduction to Capture
  

Because i was new to the diploma i was set a task that was to go out with a partner for only an hour and to film footage to create a certain emotion. Once we had finished filming we had to edit it on iMovie to produce a one minute video expressing our chosen emotion. 

Mine & Angelina's Video

'Capture One'

• Moving Image Language

For this we looked at all the camera shots and movements to make sure we were familiar with them all. We then had to edit the sound for a clip out of the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2003). I found this very useful as became very familiar with how to use iMovie.

My Video

'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'

• Working in Television

We were given a task to research in pairs on jobs within the media. I had to work with a partner and research on the job titles of a Television Director and Television Producer. Once we had researched about the jobs we had to plan and produce a Vox Pop explaining to year nine girls what they were about. Even though we got this project done near enough on time we found that if we'd planned our work in a lot more detail it would of helped us more.

Mine & Michelle's Video!

'VoxPop'

• Soap Opera

Soap operas are extremely popular in the television industry, Eastenders and Coronation Street are two of the most well known Soaps in Britain. For or first main project we had to pair up, research plan and create a section of a television programme called 'Defining British Soaps'. We had to research the history of soap operas and produce a detailed timeline to help us with making the video. I enjoyed making this project as i got to incorporate my own ideas into the project and be a lot more creative than in the other projects i had done before.

Mine & Sofia's Video!

'Defining British Soaps'

The Creative Media Diploma;

The Creative Media Diploma!

This is a new subject evolving people in the more creative and outgoing side to media.

It's worth 3.5 A-Levels and takes up two A-Level subjects.

This diploma is a based on a lot more practical work more than theoretical work.

If your thinking about aiming to achieve a job in the media industry then this Diploma is perfect for you!

There are four units within the diploma...

• Capture
• Investigation
• Commission
• Interaction

Your assessed by the work you produce in your portfolios

You also have two examined units.

The skills you will need are; Creativity, Commitment, Independent, an Investigator, a Self Manager and a Team Worker!

About Me;

Welcome!... :)

To Hollie's Blog,

Im Sixteen,

I got to Kings Norton Girls Sixth Form, 

The subjects i take are Photography and The Creative Media Diploma,

I hope to get a job in the advertising agency when i'm older,

I have a weekend job as a waitress,

I can't wait to turn seventeen so i can start driving :D