This blog has several uses:
- A way of completing tasks set in class
- A way of completing and submitting homework
- A way of taking notes in class, which will eventually lead to
- A comprehensive and personalised revision guide
- A portfolio to show to employers
- And maintaining a blog is a valuable skill with many applications in marketing, journalism and related media industries
Follow these steps to create your own blog
1 - Create a new gmail account
It doesn't matter if you have one already. You need a completely fresh one for Media Studies. Make sure to keep this email professional. Try a variation on your name.
2 - Go to blogger.com and create a new blog
3 - Give your blog a professional and memorable name and url.
It must include the word 'media' and cannot include your full name. You may have to try several before you get an available name.
While you're here you can select a template, but don't worry about this too much at the moment. You'll be personalising your blog in just a minute.
4 - Click 'new post'
5 - On your new post, click 'labels'
Labels are a way of organising your blog, both for you when looking for important information, and for your teacher when they need to mark your work. It is essential that we all use the same labels.
6 - Copy the text below, and paste it into the 'labels' box
Note - we just found out there's a limit to how many labels you can include in one post, so paste this instead:
Advertising and Marketing, Audience, Context, Film Industry, Genre, Magazines, Media Industries, Music Industry, Music Video, Newspapers, Online Media, Radio, Television, TV, Videogames
7 - Create your first blog post
Your first blog post is a pen portrait of yourself. You cannot include any personal information, but you will detail your favourite media products.
Here are some suggestions of headings, lists and sections. It's up to you which bits you complete, but the more you do, the more you will be thinking about media studies, and the more your classmates and teacher can get to know you.
Here are the suggested headings:
Top five films
Top five TV shows
Top five bands
Best albums of [year/decade]
Best actors
Best music videos
Style icons
Best videogames
Top directors
Top five film posters
Best radio presenters
Top bloggers/vloggers
Best Youtube channels
Top record labels
Best moments in [favourite TV show]
Best TV opening theme tunes
Anything else? As long as it's media related, it can go in here
8 - Make it look really good
It's a matter of preference whether you format your post as you complete it, or after you've finished the raw text. Regardless, play around with the formatting tools, and find images from the internet to illustrate your post. Save the image to Downloads, and then click the photo icon in the formatting bar to insert the photos.
9 - Personalise your blog
There's lots of ways to do this, so you're on your own here. Please remember to keep it professional and readable. You'll probably have to finish this off later.
10 - Email your teacher your blog url
You will not be able to leave until you have emailed your teacher!
Create a NEW BLOG POST with the tags
Component 1, Component 2, Media Language
and follow the instructions below:
EXTENSION TASK - Introduction to cinematography
Create a NEW BLOG POST with the tags
Component 1, Component 2, Media Language
and follow the instructions below:
