SHSG Media Studies GCSE 20

Now could be a good time to brush up on your photoshop skills. Adobe are offering a 7 day free trial at the moment. After this its £16 a month for Creative Suite for students. There are lots of You tube tutorials that you could follow to create some interesting designs. A bit of fun, why not Photoshop you and your friends into a location you would really like to be in right now or you could transpose your face into a film poster or onto one of our set texts? You could mock up a new Quality Street advert, a Bond poster, you could be on the front of GQ magazine (GCSE texts) The Big Issue or in a Lucozade Ad, the front cover of the The Guardian or The Daily Mail could be your destination (A level texts). The only restriction is your imagination! Send me your finished designs by 4th May (may the 4th be with you....)

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Please find tasks for Media Studies for the next fortnight. Please aim to have these tasks complete by 3rd May. It is up to you how you wish to organise your time. You could do it all in a couple of days and blitz it or you can spread it out if you prefer to stick to a school day schedule. Feel free to email me if you have any questions. Don't forget you have the powerpoint guide to help you with these tasks. I suggest you complete them with the powerpoint open to one side. Task 1 & 2 Generic Research Please complete your second and third textual analyses. These should be examples of a product that has a similar aesthetic (look) to the one that you wish to produce. Look at the examples on the powerpoint guide and re read pages 189-190 of the text book to help you with this. You can annotate by hand and take a photo and upload it as a photo to your powerpoint (as long as it is legible) or you could create a word document and upload that, or if you are feeling parti

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