Minecraft construction task

 Minecraft Construction Task

Design a magazine advert page for new Minecraft product

Every successful media construction requires research, planning, production and evaluation.

Even though sales are stronger than ever, Minecraft are trying to encourage all those young Fortnite, Among us fans to fall in love with the game as much as the older teens. You have been hired to come up with some merchandise ideas for Minecraft targeting both genders and aimed at a 7-16 audience.

Create a google slide or similar and include:

Research
What has been some of most successful merchandise aimed at this age group so far. eg Star Wars, Toy Story, Frozen

What other Minecraft merchandise is available currently? Show some examples.

Planning
Look at some print adverts and decide what the conventions are. Plan a design or describe your idea.

Production
Choose the programme you'd like to make your product on and design your product making sure you believe in its success and that it fits print advert conventions.

Evaluation

What was the task you were assigned?

What programme did you use to complete your task?

What tools did you use from your programme to create your task ie font websites, crop, colour changes etc?

What were the biggest obstacles to completing your task?

Describe your production and why you chose the various text headings and images?

What was your initial feedback? What did others say about your production?

Identify what went well and with hindsight what would you do differently?

Radio practical task

Jungle Book practical

PRACTICAL JUNGLE BOOK TASK INSTRUCTIONS due Friday 31st January

You will be producing a 2-3 minute interview with the marketing manager/producer/director/editor of the new Jungle Book. If there are three of you, you will write the script together then decide who will present, be interviewed and film (cueing script), if only two then take turns playing each of the roles and interview each other. The aim of these interviews is to get your audience to be excited about watching the film, it hasn't come out yet. The producer will talk about the exciting combination of actors and editor about the effects and the marketing manager can discuss all the ways they intend to promote the film. Go through your google slides and take notes of all the production and marketing techniques and devise questions for these.

Break it up into sections so that the interviewer can say let's take a look and we can see clips from the film or trailer. It will also give you a chance to prepare your next question and answer. Give us much information an be as interesting as you possibly can be and try to look at the interviewer when you speak. Maybe memorise a couple of lines at a time and then pause. 

- Shot reverse shot (presenter and - marketing manager/favreau or his assistant/ distributor/Disney CEO) in the green room or with green sheet so you can insert Jungle Book backgrounds.
- Have a look at some film interviews, watch behind the scenes jungle book CGI clips
- Use your presentations, practise essays and fact sheets for the best bits to come up with questions and answers
- questions and answers do timings - for eg what are the most important aspects of the Jungle Book marketing campaign. Include gimmicks, merchandise and social media.
- Find the clips and images you need to show in the background
- The Jungle Book trailer is saved in the shared media drive
- Find somewhere quiet to film with a blank background and think about lighting, some classrooms in G block are perfect with their white slide curtains.

Recommended timings:
Day 1 write script - watch clips and interviews and come up with a list of questions
Day 2 film plan, location, set up, rehearse lines, print scripts
Day 3 film
Day 4 film and edit
Day 5 edit and upload onto blog FRIDAY 11th FEBRUARY 

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/director-jon-favreau-reveals-secrets-making-jungle-book/story?id=38426455

• http://www.animationxpress.com/index.php/animation/spanishjungle

• https://corporate.univision.com/corporate/press/2016/04/18/the-new-york-times-disneys-savvy-marketing-of-the-jungle-book/

• https://www.reelnreel.com/the-jungle-book-movie-youtube-marketing-success-strategy/

• https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Disneys-marketing-of-The-Jungle-Book-remarked-upon-as-savvy-and-innovative-What-did-they-do-differently

Daily Mail front cover

This week we're completing our Daily Mail front covers on either publisher or indesign. You can now log on to adobe creative cloud from home. 

Firstly, and good for revision, study these - Daily Mail front pages - Google Search 

Then write down Mr Bowers' suggestions for stories - you don't need to use these. Use a traditional format including celeb/royal story and dramatic headline of your choice. You are copying the LAYOUT of a real DM paper but not the stories. Size A3. Images can be found or original and for the DM masthead you'll have to screengrab a real one as they have their own font. You need to save the images first, copy and paste doesn't work, they need to be uploaded onto the programme. Sort your text box sizes first and create a space for where your images will go.

 

Practical evaluation

 What was the advert you chose?

How did you divide the tasks in your group and did you need other helpers? Describe.

What programme did you use to complete your task?

What tools from that programme did you use to create your task ie font websites, crop, colour changes etc?

What were the biggest obstacles to completing your task?

Describe your production, obstacles, successes, final piece. Make sure it's uploaded onto your wixes.

What was your initial feedback? What did others say about your production?

Identify what went well and with hindsight what would you do differently?

Advert re-creations