A guide to the Beaverwood Media blogs

PLEASE USE THE NEW CHISLEHURST MEDIA BLOGS AT....

http://chislehurstmedia.blogspot.co.uk/



The following blogs should be checked daily!! Posts have been labelled according to the briefs that they are relevant to. You can sort the posts according to the different labels. For example, if you are looking for all the posts that are relevant to the film trailer brief, just click on the label and hey presto... Posts related to deadlines and other important details of course, are relevant to all of you!

http://alevelmedia2015.blogspot.co.uk/

This is the main blog that A2 students should be referring to for 2015

http://beaverwoodmediaas1314.blogspot.co.uk

This is the main blog that AS students will be referring to during the AS course (in addition to beaverwoodmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk).

http://beaverwoodmediaa21314.blogspot.co.uk/

This is the main blog that A2 students should be referring to (in addition to beaverwoodmediastudies.blogspot.co.uk) now and up to December, when the coursework assignments are due in.

http://beaverwoodgcse2014.blogspot.co.uk/

This is the main blog for GCSE Students.

If you have any questions, please email beaverwoodmedia@gmail.com or email/speak to your Media Studies teacher personally:
Year 12 - Ms. Davies and Mr. Ambrose
Year 13 - Ms. James and Mr. Ambrose

Please ensure you have enabled 'post comments' on your blog settings

Go to your dashboard, and click settings.
Go to Posts and comments and ensure you have selected 'Registered user' next to 'Who can comment?'

Guide to Research

Click here for a useful guide which you can refer to for all of your A level subjects.

Link to Adobe Dreamweaver tutorials - for creating web pages

Many of the ancillary tasks for A2 production require you to create homepages or hyperlinked pages of a website.

Click here for video tutorials which will take you through the steps of using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - this program is installed on all the PCs in S13.

Link to Adobe Photoshop tutorials - FOR PRINT ELEMENTS OF PRODUCTION

Need to crop, edit or manipulate your photographs?
Need to produce a CD digipak or a front cover of a magazine?
Then use Photoshop!

Click here for video tutorials on every aspect of Adobe Photoshop CS4. This program is installed on all PCs in S13.

Link to Adobe Indesign Tutorials - FOR PRINT PRODUCTION

You should NOT be using MS Word or MS Publisher to lay out your magazines or newspapers!

Click for video tutorials on every aspect of Adobe Indesign CS4. This program is installed on all PCs in S13.

Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - A more sophisticated alternative to Windows Moviemaker

All of the PCs in S13 have Adobe Premiere Pro installed on them. You might like to experiment with using this instead of Windows Moviemaker. Use these video tutorials to help work your way through the program.
Good luck!
Click here for video tutorials