Media Studies A2 Course

TWO UNITS:1. G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media (Coursework)

2. G325: Critical Perspectives (Exam)

Each is worth 50% of the final grade

Coursework Details• 1.G324: Advanced Portfolio

in Media• Promotion Package (60

marks)

• Evidence of planning & research (20 marks)

• Evaluation (20 marks)

The Promotion Package consists of THREE products:

Main Task (40 marks):A music video – no more than 3 mins long

2 Ancillary Tasks (10 marks each):1. a digipak for the album’s release

2. a magazine advertisement for the digipak

(60 marks in total)

You will use Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and In-Design to make the ancillary texts

A planning and research blog and evaluation are required

Evaluation questions (only 4 this time!)•In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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

•What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

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

So your main aim is to create advertising materials for a music promo in order to construct an audience for it.

The examiners want there to a be a clear RELATIONSHIP between all 3 products

They want you to create a BRAND IDENTITY

IMPORTANT NOTE:

The G325 exam has 2 sections

In the first section of the exam you will be writing about your AS & A2 COURSEWORK

Module 2G325: Critical PerspectivesEXAM 2 HoursThere are two sections to this paper: Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production (50 marks) Section B: Contemporary Media Issues (50 marks)

Section A has two compulsory questions:

Question 1a asks you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of all your production work, from AS to A2.

In the examination, questions will be posed using one or two of the following categories:

• Digital Technology • Creativity • Research and planning • Post-production • Using conventions from real

media texts .

Question 1b asks you to select one production (i.e. either AS or A2 work) and evaluate it in relation to one of the following media concepts:•Genre •Narrative •Representation •Audience •Media language

Section B: Contemporary Media Regulation

• What is the nature of contemporary media regulation compared with previous practices? • What are the arguments for and against specific forms of contemporary media regulation? • How effective are regulatory practices? • What are the wider social issues relating to media regulation?

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Candidates might explore combinations of: Film censorship, the regulation of advertising, the Press and regulation / control, computer / video game classification, the regulation of online media, social networking and virtual worlds, contemporary broadcasting and political control, the effects debate and alternative theories of audience, children and television, violence and the media or a range of other study contexts relating to the regulation of contemporary media. Regulation might be researched in regard to media content