Sami's blog

  The fruit bowl task is a wonderfully creative way to learn some key skills in Photoshop as well as develop our understanding of colour. Once you have finished your fruit bowl, you need to  post it to your blog . Create a blog post called 'Photoshop fruit bowl' and complete the following tasks: 1) Save your fruit bowl as a  JPEG image  in Photoshop - remember to save it in  your own folder  on the Media Shared drive in the  Student  folder. To save as a JPEG image, go to 'Save a Copy' and then use the drop-down menu for 'File type' and choose JPEG. 2) Post your fruit bowl (or fruit bowls if you did more than one) to your blog by clicking the 'add image' icon and locating the correct JPEG image from your folder on Media Shared. 3) Write a short explanation of the colour palette you used and the effect you were trying to create when designing your fruit bowl.

  Denotation & Connotation blog tasks: advert analysis Create a  new  blogpost in your GCSE Media blog called ' Denotation and connotation '. 1) Write an analysis of the  Water Aid  advert above  using denotation, connotation and analysis. What can you see? What are the deeper meanings in the advert? What does the advert communicate to the audience? How might an audience react after seeing the advert? Denotation; This printed water aid advertisement shows a child in a blue t-shirt(symbolic codes).It also features as the water aid logo(symbolic code) and a slogan(written code)it also shows a village or a underdeveloped house in the background. Connotation; The child is deliberately shown like this because they want to show that the child is thirsty and they want the audience to feel the need to donate to charity. The slogan of 'dig toilets not graves' implies that if you don't donate to make toilets you will just dig their grave instead. Analysis the del...

  1) Which part of Media are you looking forward to the most? The part of media that i am looking forward to the most is analysing video games because i play a lot of video games  2) What knowledge and skills do you hope to learn in Media? The knowledge and skills i hope to learn in media are how to create and produce videos  3) What grade are you realistically hoping to achieve in Media? The grade i am hoping for in media is a grade 7 or 8  4) What device do you use most to access the media? (The media = news, TV, music, film, social media etc.) The device I use the most to access the media is my mobile phone. 5) What is your average 'screen time' (or equivalent) on your phone each day? Is this about right, too little or too much? Why?My average screen time on my phone each day is 5 hours.i think this is just about right because it could be a lot more    6) What was the last TV programme or film you watched? The last tv show i watched was a star wars ...