First 20 songs on my Ipod shuffle.

1. Jools Holland and James Morrison- A place in the sun- Jazz
2. Lady Gaga- Born this way- Pop
3. Robbie Williams- Candy- Pop
4. American anthems- Eye of the tiger- Rock
5. Paulo Nutini- Candy- Indie rock/ Blues
6. Maroon 5- Will be loved- Rock pop
7. Orson- Okay- Rock
8. Orson- Bright idea- Rock
9. James Arthur- Impossible- Pop
10. The Kooks- Seaside- Rock/ Pop
11. Maroon 5- One more night- Rock pop
12. Bruno Mars- Runaway- Pop/ R&B
13. The Kooks- Eddies gun- Rock/ Pop
14. Paulo Nutini- Pencil full of lead- Indie rock/ Blues
15. The Kooks- You dont love me- Rock/ Pop
16. Taylor swift- Trouble- Country pop
17. The vaccines- Wolf pack- Indie rock
18. Train- Mermaid- Roots rock/ Country rock/ Pop rock
19. Train- 50 ways to die- Roots rock/ Country rock/ Pop rock
20. The vaccines- Norgaard- Indie rock

Record sheet, task 4 (Hammond).

Music magazine (main task & preliminary task of college mag)

Digital technology:

• Computer
• Photoshop
• Internet e.g. google, blogger
• Camera
•  Memory stick
• Tripod

Creativity:

The creativity that i did was by using colours that went well together and setting them out so that you were able to look at the different colours  I was very creative with the title of my main music magazine at AS as the use of the plectrum in the background for the name of the magazine 'PLEC' which showed high creativity. As for the rest of the magazine i played it quite safe as i tried to use forms and conventions of a 'Mojo' magazine as the way that was set out look good and i was able to do that. For my pictures i was creative as i didn't really copy any other images from real media products as i came up with my own ideas. However the front image of my music magazine i did copy a picture of John Mayer as it looked effective and would fit well on a music magazine cover.

Research and planning:

I did not do as much research and planning in AS compared to A2 as i didn't feel i needed to and i just saw bits i liked and then copied them and didn't really look much at what other options there was.

Post-production:

Things that i changed from my school magazine to my music magazine was the use of colours, images, and fonts. This was done through Photoshop and comments from my teachers.

Using conventions from real media products:

I massively used forms and conventions from real media products as i followed how they looked and didn't go out of my comfort zone much of trying something new.

Music video and ancillary texts

Digital technology:

• Mac
• Computer
• Photoshop
• Windows live movie maker
• Final cut pro
• Camera
• Tripod
• Photography tent
• Tripod
• Memory stick
• Internet e.g. blogger, google, scribd, animoto, prezi, slideshare

Creativity:

I was much more creative with my work in A2 as i knew the programs better and was not scared about trying new things to see if they worked. I went through no end of fonts on my work to see which looked better and moved them around instead of focusing on one place like i did at AS. My creativity of the circle on the back of my digipack i did. I saw an image of a painted circle and then went away and did my own by also trying new images with the paint. All of my images on both the advert and digipack were all my own idea and none of the images were massively copied from a real media product. As for my music video all of that was my own ideas and nothing in the video was copied from a real media product. I did use ideas of real media products but did not copy any of then and also did not copy and storyline as we came up with it our selves by listening to the song and looking at how it would make people feel.

Research and planning:
I did a huge amount of research and planning in A2 as i learnt from my experience in AS that the more research and planning you did that easier it would be to focus on what i wanted and how i was going to go about it.

Post-production:
After my AS year i was able to edit my digipack and advert a lot better and understand what the teachers were saying and relate to ways i could change it.

Using conventions from real media products:

I used a for of forms and conventions of real media products as i wanted my work to look professional but on some parts i stepped out my comfort zone and trusted my judgement of what would look good.

Task 3 (Hammond).

write a breif description of your as and your a2 productoin peices of work:

AS work:

Above was my final peices of work that i did for AS and below are the drafts that i did before creating my final peices so i could see what neeeded improving and what my final pieces woud look like. My target audeince for this piece of work was an indie group and also people who enjoyied playing instrument which is what i got across throughout.

Below is the first piece of work that i ever did and it helped me t6o become used to the photoshop program but also understand how things would work and look at what colours and fonts look well together.

A2 work:

This is my A2 work and looking at it now compared to my AS i can see a vast improvment of my skills. My use of colour, layout and fonts look a lot more proffesional. I also found it easier this time on the program. Even though again i had problems this year with the technology i was able to overcome it quicker and get on with my work.

Task 2 (Hammond).

Digital technology-

• Photosop
• Final cut pro
• Mac
• Computer
• Camera
• Laptop
• Internet- youtube, blogger, google, scribd, prezi, animoto
• Microsoft word
• Windows live movie maker

Creativity-

• Own ideas
• trying something new
• New skills

Research and planning-

Research- Looking at both new and old txts and looking through them to help give you ideas. It is looking through thinga you like so you can see the type of things you may want on your final work.
Planning- This is then coming up with the ideas and created mood boards to look at what looks best together and what you can get out of it.

Post-production- this is everything that i changed for example on the music video:

• Cutting clips
• adding colour effects
• putting in music
• timings
• lip syncing

Using conventions from real media products:

Generic conventions from magazines, music videos, and adverts. Looking at how Things look and how the proffesional look can be used on my own pieces of work.

Music remakes (Ford)

Ed Sheeran and Delevin is the 3 remake of the Watchtower song and Jimi Hendrix is the second remake






Cee lo green did a remake with Jools holland of Hackie Wilsons Reet petite

Task 1 (Hammond).

Task: put the requirements of this question into your own words
Describe and evaluate you skills development over the course of your production work.

Describe and go into detail of what skills you have developed over both AS and A2 and the production of the work within it. Also how your skills have developed throughout the whole 2 year course. To evaluate woud be to be looking at both side, the bad and the good of what i have done for my production work.
Production work:

• School magazine
• Draft music magazine cover/double page spread
• music magazine, cover and double page spread
• Busted music video
• Draft msuic advert/digipack/music video
• Advert
• Digipack
• Music video

Paradox. (Ford)

A paradox is an argument that produces an inconsistency, typically within logic or common sense. Most logical paradox's are invalid arguements but are promoting critical thinking.
Something which seems contridctory but isnt. I doesnt make sense if you look at it logically.