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AS Media Studies 2010 1
Foundation Portfolio in Media
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IntroductionYour coursework task will be to research the print industry and then produce your own pages for a new music magazine.
You will:
Carry out research on existing products
Produce draft designs
Complete a preliminary task
Produce your final product
Evaluate your work
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Learning outcomes:
•How to analyse a print product
•How to carry out audience research
•How to use Photoshop
•How to design a layout
•How to represent an audience and social group
•How to evaluate
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Marking
Your coursework is 50% of your overall grade
You will be marked out of 100
You can get up to 20 marks for research and planning
You can get up to 60 marks for production
You can get up to 20 marks for evaluation
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Marking
Your work will be marked against 4 different levels:
Level 1 - Minimal
Level 2 - Basic
Level 3 - Proficient
Level 4 - Excellent
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Coursework
To complete your coursework you must submit:
Complete research and planning documentation – presented in a folder or via a blog or website
Preliminary college magazine task – presented in folder or blog and submitted electronically
Front cover, contents page and double page spread – submitted electronically
Evaluation presented in a blog or a PowerPoint – submitted electronically
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Research & Planning
Your research & planning will be marked against the following criteria:
Your research into similar products and target audience
Your organisation of actors, locations, costumes and props Your work on layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.
The care you have taken in the presentation of your research and planning
Your time management AS Media Studies 2010
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Production
Your production skills will be marked against the following criteria:
Your framing of shots and the way you include and exclude elements as appropriate
Your skill at using a variety of shot distances as appropriate Your ability to shoot material appropriate to the task set
Your selection of mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting
Your manipulation of photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing
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Production cont.
Your ability to accurately using language and register
Your skill in appropriately integrating illustration and text
Showing your understanding of conventions of layout and page design
Showing your awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size
Your use of ICT appropriately for the task
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Evaluation
Your evaluation will be marked against the following criteria:
Your ability to refer to the choices you have made and the outcomes
Your understanding of your development from preliminary to main task
Your ability to communicate
Your skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.
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Deadlines
Your finished project is due in on the 18th of February
Your research is due in on the 29th November
Your planning is due in on the 4th January
Your pages must be complete by the 7th February
Your evaluation must be complete by 18th February
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Deadlines
You will be set tasks during your first lesson of the week
You will have the remainder of lesson time that week and any homework time required to complete the task
Each piece of work will have a deadline
Each deadline must be met
Failure to do so will result in disciplinary action
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