Some useful links

Magazine Design:

http://www.magazinedesigning.com/

http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-music-magazine-cover-in-indesign--vector-1052

http://layersmagazine.com/magazine-cover-design-in-indesign.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/tutorials.html


Download a free 30 day trial of Adobe Creative Cloud Software:

http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads.html

This week....

Aim to complete your front cover!

A reminder of the exam board's A Grade Criteria:

There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

• Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;

• showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;

• showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;

• accurately using language and register;

• using ICT appropriately for the task set;

• appropriately integrating illustration and text;

• shooting a variety of material appropriate to the task set;

• manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing.

 

Examples of A Grade magazine pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you interested in film making?

There are some fantastic opportunities available for those of you who are interested media / film related careers.

You can find out more information using the links below:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/5-19-film-education-scheme-2013-2017/bfi-film-academy-scheme

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/5-19-film-education-scheme-2013-2017/bfi-film-academy-scheme/bfi-film-academy-residential-programme-adsv

http://callingtheshots.co.uk/bfi-animation-camp/

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/5-19-film-education-scheme-2013-2017//bfi-film-academy-scheme/bfi-film-academy-residential-programme-craft-skills

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/5-19-film-education-scheme-2013-2017/bfi-film-academy-scheme/bfi-film-academy-uk-network-programme

http://www.filmworkshop.com/residential

A competition that some of you might be interested in.....

Here's the link:

http://www.internetmatters.org/educate/schools/antibullying-song-competition.html#competition-for-secondary-schools