FORD (MR) MEDIA (AS)

This has been posted by the exam board as an example of a level 4 blog. i presume the evaluation is level 4 too. It's worth looking at to make sure you at least equal it. We are hoping that your evaluations (and blogs) will be better. They should be, if you follow the advice posted.

For the final 20 marks of the project, you must complete seven tasks on your blog, posting them in this order, with the question heading at the top of each task. You may do them as a pair/group, but must post individual copies on each blog. Make sure you answer each question as well as producing the visual elements. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines) 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ? 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 4. Who would be the audience for your media product? 5. How did you attract/address your audience? 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product? EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1 In what ways...

This has been posted by the exam board as a good example of an AS level evaluation. It's worth looking at to make sure you at least equal it. We are hoping that your evaluations will be better. They should be, if you follow the advice posted.

For the final 20 marks of the project, you must complete seven tasks on your blog, posting them in this order, with the question heading at the top of each task. You may do them as a pair/group, but must post individual copies on each blog. Make sure you answer each question as well as producing the visual elements. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings) 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ? 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 4. Who would be the audience for your media product? 5. How did you attract/address your audience? 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product? EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1 In what ways does you...

Print work Marks must be based on the candidates’ ability to show skill in the creative use of the following technical skills: • framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate; • using a variety of shot distances as appropriate; • shooting material appropriate to the task set; • selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting; • manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing; • accurately using language and register; • appropriately integrating illustration and text; • showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design; • showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size; • using ICT appropriately for the task set. The Beat – High Level 4 (57) This piece shows a high level of excellence in the creative use of technical skills overall. Shots are varied, well framed and appropriate throughout the product. Mise-en-scène has been carefully c...

Pete Fraser (OCR bigwig and all round media guru) has posted an extremely useful article on magazine covers at AS level. Highly recommended reading. Click on image.

Print Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group. All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate. Video Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstr...

G321 AS Course Work Schedule 2010-2011

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program .