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AS Media Studies
G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media- coursework
• kept on a blog. • This is a coursework unit where candidates
produce a media artefact from a series of briefs.
• This process involves progression from a pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully realised piece.
• The briefs offered are: print, video, audio and website.
• Candidates present their research and planning on a blog and do an evaluation in digital format, based on seven required prompt questions
• 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.
• 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)
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 demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
• Main task: 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.
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Audio
• Preliminary exercise: the introductory music/jingle for a show on the radio with a presenter introducing and greeting their guest (who must respond) and playing an archive sound clip relating to the guest (approximately 30-40 seconds duration in total). This exercise is to demonstrate understanding of sound editing and mixing and conventions of radio.
• Main task: A five minute news bulletin (local radio) to include title music, presenter, specialist reporters, OBs, recorded interview, a vox pop and appropriate sound fx and structure.
• All audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source
Exam
• Textual Analysis and Representation.• In Section A, Representation in TV Drama.• candidates answer questions on a 4 minute
unseen TV drama extract that is then linked to some aspect of the representation within the sequence.
• Institutions and Audiences• In Section B, candidates study the British Film
Industry.• We examine the production, distribution,
marketing and exchange of films made by UK based film companies.
• The aim of this course is to;• • enhance candidates enjoyment and
appreciation of the media and its role in their daily lives;
• • develop critical understanding of the media through engagement with media products and concepts and through the creative application of practical skills;
• • explore production processes, technologies and contexts;
• • become independent in research skills and their application
