2013 AS Media Studies Introduction

G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media This is a coursework unit where you produce two paired media artefacts from a series of briefs. This process involves progression from a pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully realised piece. This unit is internally assessed and externally moderated.

DEPENDING ON NEW TEACHERS CHOICE - this will depend on who they appoint and there specialisms.

OPTION A

Preliminary Exercise Brief: 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 demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main Task Brief: The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

Bond

OPTION B

Preliminary Exercise Brief: 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 Although you can do this as a group I would actually suggest that you do it individually so that you can be responsible for your own success and its easier to identify whose done what. (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.

 

 
G322:Key Media Concepts The purpose of these units is first to assess your media textual analysis skills and understanding of the concept of representation using a short unseen moving image extract; second to assess your knowledge and understanding of media institutions and their production processes, distribution strategies, use of technologies and related issues concerning audience reception and consumption of media texts.

Sherlock Holmes

The examination is two hours (including 30 minutes for viewing and making notes on the moving image extract) and you are required to answer two compulsory questions. The unit is marked out of a total of 100, with each question marked out of 50.

 
Section A's current topic is BRITISH TV Drama  - The sequence will be taken from a contemporary British one-off or series or serial drama programme. 


Looking at one of the following:

• Gender
• Age
• Ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Class & Status
• Physical Ability / disability
• Regional Identity

Previous Extracts include:

• June 2012 - Coming Down the Mountian
• Merlin
• Primevil
• Doctor Who
• Hotel Babylon



HP

 Section B Ms Rolfe currently teaches Film - A study of a specific studio or production company within a contemporary film industry that targets a British audience (eg Hollywood, Bollywood, UK film), including its patterns of production, distribution, exhibition and consumption by audiences. This should be accompanied by study of contemporary film distribution practices (digital cinemas, DVD, HD-DVD, downloads, etc) and their impact upon production, marketing and consumption.