Recommended websites

Producing good, indepth analysis, demonstrating your creativity and showing off your technical skills are important for the AS Media Coursework but you must also embrace new technology if you want to get good marks.

There are a lot of free websites which you can use to make the presentation of your work more interesting.

Here are some which we encourage you to use. No doubt you will also know of others.

http://www.dafont.com/
When creating your mastheads, why restrict yourself to the lousy range of font choices available in Photoshop? Go to dafont.com to access a whole world of fonts. You can use them directly from the site but it is better if you ask your tutor to download your chosen ones for you.


http://www.flickr.com/
You will need to set up a Yahoo account (if you don't already have one) and link it to your blog. Once you have done this you can upload your images, such as magazine covers, and annotate them using the 'post-it note' feature. Once your analysis is complete, link the image to your blog.


http://www.slideshare.net/
This site lets you upload your PowerPoints and it converts them into slides shows which you can then embed into your blog posts.

http://issuu.com/  or  http://www.flipsnack.com/
If you have produced a document in MS Word which is nicely laid out and features text and images, just convert it into a .pdf and then upload it to issuu or flipsnack and these site will convert it into an electronic book which you can then paste onto your blog posts.

Windows Movie Maker
WMM is very easy to use. You just gather stills and/or video footage and sound onto it and edit using the timeline. You can then output your video to your computer or upload it to YouTube and insert it into your blog posts.

Here's how an A2 group presented their findings from their audience research. It's funny as well as informative, it took them just 40 minutes to complete and it did wonders for their grades!