Advanced Portfolio in Media (100 marks)
Produce a main artefact, two ancillary artefacts and an accompanying blog containing our research, planning and evaluation materials.
Critical Perspectives in Media (100 marks)
An exam in which we will need to show our understanding of media theory as it applies to our own product and to real media texts.
Advanced Portfolio
Multimedia production based on the Music Industry
Create a promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options: a website homepage for the band, a cover for its release on DVD or a magazine advertisement for the DVD.
The deadline for production work is the end of the Autumn term (December).
Critical Perspectives in Media
There are two sections in the paper:
Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production (50 marks)
Question 1a will involve analysing our own product using the concepts: digital technology, creativity, research and planning, post-production and using conventions from real media texts.
Question 1b will involve analysing our own product using the following concepts: genre, narrative, representation, audience and media language.
Section B: Contemporary Media Issues (50 marks)
Question 2 will involve discussing a key media concept using a range of texts from two media products. We will explore the topic of Media and Collective Identity.
Specifically, we will be looking at how the notion of Britishness is constructed by the media that we consume, using examples from: British crime cinema and British broadcast news.
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