Friday 26 February 2016

Important dates

Event
Description
Info
Date/time
PPE Exam
A2 Media Exam Unit G325 – Critical Perspectives in Media
2 hours
Mon 25 April
Deadline for receipt of GCE coursework marks
A2 Media Coursework - Unit G324 – Advanced Portfolio
Blogs and ancillary tasks
Sun 15 May
Deadline for the receipt of examiner marked coursework by the examiner
A2 Media Coursework - Unit G324 – Advanced Portfolio
Blogs and ancillary tasks
Tues 31 May
Exam date
A2 Media Exam - Unit G325 - Critical Perspectives in Media
2 hours
Wed 8 June am

Restricted release of results for this qualification
GCE Media (H540) - G324 and G325
Final grade
Thurs 18 August

Thursday 4 February 2016

Post-production information

MAKE SURE YOU TAG YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS.

For level 4 evaluations - annotated screen grabs, embedded video, audio and links in addition to some analysis that communicates their answers to the four questions in the specification.

FOR HIGHER LEVELS - Animatic Storyboard Method

EXAMPLE MUSIC VIDEOS - aka. The competition!


To attempt in March:

ANCILLARY TASKS

1) Magazine advert for your music video

2) Website homepage for music video

3) Poster for a music video


EVALUATION QUESTIONS FOR YOUR MUSIC VIDEO


1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2) How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3) What have you learned from your audience feedback? 


4) How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Monday 18 January 2016

Pre-production important information

DEADLINE TO COMPLETE PRE-FILMING PREP CHARTS = MONDAY 25TH JANUARY


Initial idea
(premise, pitch, synopsis) = Done

Analysis
(post-modern representation in media texts - films and music videos) = Done
Visualising process
(mood board, storyboard, lyrics visualisation) = Done





PRE-FILMING PREP 
There are many ways to represent pre-filming information, but these are highly effective methods

All-in-one example piece


SHOT LIST/EQUIPMENT LIST/PROPS



RISK ASSESSMENT

Example Piece
Example Piece 2

LOCATION SCOUTING


STILL TO GO


Production - (rehearsals, rushes, mise-en-scene, camera, lighting, sound, production design, chain of demand)
Post-production - (rough cut, effects, grade and colour)
Distribution and marketing (social media, press coverage, finding an audience, targeting sales)