Tuesday 27 March 2012

AS Media Mark Scheme

Print
Level 1 0–23 marks
The work for the main task is possibly incomplete. There is minimal evidence in the work of the creative use of any relevant technical skills such as:
                   
·       Producing material appropriate for the target audience and task;
·       showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;
·       showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;
·       accurately using language and register;
·       using ICT appropriately for the task set;
·       appropriately integrating illustration and text;
·       shooting a variety of material appropriate to the task set;
·       manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing.

Level 2 24–35 marks
There is evidence of a basic level of ability in the creative use of some of the following technical skills:

Level 3 36–47 marks
There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:
                   
Level 4 48–60 marks
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
                   
RESEARCH AND Planning:
Level 1 0–7 marks
                   
Planning and research evidence will be incomplete;

There is minimal research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is minimal organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is minimal work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is minimal care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management may be very poor.

Level 2 8–11 marks
                   
Planning and research evidence may be partially incomplete;

There is basic research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is basic organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is basic work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is a basic level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management may not be good.

Level 3 12–15 marks
                   
Planning and research evidence will be complete;

There is proficient research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is proficient organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is proficient work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is a good level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management is good.

Level 4 16–20 marks
                   
Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed;

There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience;

There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props;

There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding;

There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning;

Time management is excellent.


EVALUATION:
Level 1 0–7 marks
                   
Minimal skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.

Minimal understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.

Minimal ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.

Minimal understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.

Minimal ability to communicate.

Level 2 8–11 marks
                   
Basic skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.

Basic understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.

Basic ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.

Basic understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.

Basic ability to communicate.

Level 3 12–15 marks
                   
Proficient skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.

Proficient understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.

Proficient ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.

Proficient understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.

Proficient ability to communicate.

Level 4 16–20 marks
                   
Excellent skill in the use of appropriate digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.

Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.

Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.

Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.

Excellent ability to communicate.



Final Deadline Checklist

Before you sign your work into the office can you ensure your blog has the following

1. Labels for EVERY post -
Research (for all research posts i.e. analysis of magazines, inspiration)
Planning (for all planning posts i.e. drafts, AFL activity, tasks for week ahead)
Product (for your product i.e. for your final magazine)
Evaluation (for your evaluation i.e. for draft and final evaluation tasks).

You should include other lables like mock up, test shot, location, costume, cover, contents, dps etc but the ones above will really help the examiner navigate your blog.

2. Everything in the CORRECT ORDER.

Your FINAL cover, contents and DPS
You evaluation questions must run 1-7
A final goodbye from you to the exam board

3. For level 4 ensure there are no 'empty weeks'. As you should have been posting roughly once a day they will expect to see at least 3 posts per week. These can range from 'target setting' for the week ahead to 'what I have done today'. Ideally you will have print screened your work as you went along to show your progress.

Evaluation Tasks

For the final 20 marks of the project, you must complete seven tasks on your blog, posting them in this order, with the question heading at the top of each task. Make sure you answer each question as well as producing the visual elements. Try not to write more than 1500 words in total.

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?


Below is a guide from the exam board on exactly how to answer these questions.

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of music magazines)

As part of your planning and research you should have looked at Music Magazines and selected a particular sub genre (e.g. Indie, pop, r&b, dance etc) to re-create. Find an example of a pre exisiting music magazine which matches your magazine, paste it into your blog and highlight the key generic conventions of the magazine (the list of terminology can be found HERE)

You should go through the final version of your project and select elements which follow conventions and any which do not.

The aspects we would like you to consider across your nine frames are:

The title of the magazine
Graphology/page layouts
Costumes, props, iconography used to reflect genre
Camerawork and framing of images
Title, article, header etc font and style
Genre and how the magazine cover, contents and spread suggests it
How your artist(s) are represented
Colour scheme

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Pick a key image of your artist from your magazine (ideally the cover image). Take a screengrab of a reasonable sized image of them. Think of one or more recording artists/stars from other magazines with some similarity to them (but maybe some differences too!), find an image on the web of that/those stars and grab it as well. Drop the two into photoshop, as a split screen. Export this splitscreen image as a jpeg then drop onto your blog and write about the similarities and differences in terms of appearance, costume etc.

So for example if you have a female R&B star on your cover, look for other female R&B star to compare them with (remember to try and ensure that they are of a similar age, race etc)...

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?


For this question, you are going to do a 'director's commentary' style voiceover explaining some of the key features of your magazine cover

You will need to script the voiceover which deals with institutional issues to include:

discussion of your production company name and logo and the role of such companies

What does a publishing company do?
the idea of a distributor and who that might be and why. start here
where the money might have come from for a magazine such as yours here
what your magazine is similar to 'institutionally' (name some magazines which would be released in a similar way)
You need to refer to actual company names and processes so you will need to maybe do a bit more research into magazine publishers like emap

When you have scripted, record the voiceover using iMovie, windows movie maker etc on a new audio timeline, then export to quicktime and embed on blog. (this is a good example of what you can do. It was created for A2 and a slightly different question but the style is correct).

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

You should have a produced a blog post on your target audience and an explanation of what kinds of taste they might have- where they would shop, what music they would listen to, what their favourite Tv programme would be, etc.

Simply take a pic of them reading your magazine, post it on the blog and write a few notes explaining why they would buy your magazine (e.g. appeal of artist, articles, features etc)

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 5

How did you attract/address your audience?
Take a screen grab of your magazines cover, content and spread and place into iMovie, movie maker etc. You will then use YOUTUBE's annotation tools to add NOTES, SPEECHBUBBLES, and LINKS to your magazine:


These annotations will highlight the ways in which your Magazine links to other similiar films in order to attract the particular Audience you have previously identified.

Your annotations will refer to genre conventions, use of iconography, similarities with other magazines and what you have identified as the Unique Selling Point of your imaginary film.

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In pairs, take a picture of each other holding the kit you have used. This might just be the camera and tripod, and your Macbook but there may be other things you want in the shot.

Drop the image onto your blog and annotate it, adding all the programs and other technology you have used as screengrabs and what you learnt about it/from using it. Your written text need only be minimal. You could include reference to all the online and computer programs you have used such as flickr, blogger, facebook, photoshop, vimeo, scribd, slideshare etc.

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the school magazine task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Concentrate on mise en scene and camerawork.

Grab some images from both tasks and put them on the blog and show what you know about shot types, magazine terms etc. Explain how you've improved.

Wednesday 14 March 2012

Important Message



MR FORD -

There will be an opportunity for AS students to attend 3 sessions after school next week on Tuesday 20th, Wednesday 21st  and Thursday 22nd. These sessions are aimed at students who could do with some extra time to ‘polish’ their work. If you have any students who would like to attend then please let us know by Friday this week (16th).

Deadline for polished coursework is Friday 23rd March by 3.10pm. All work must be printed and handed in to the English office.

The Final Deadline for Evaluations is also being extended to Friday 30th March (3:10pm English Office sign in as usual).

Tuesday 13 March 2012

13/03/12 Lesson - Evaluation Questions

·        Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
·        Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Monday 5 March 2012

THIS WEEK

Monday 27th Feb-Fri 9th Mar
·        Complete cover/contents page/ double page spread
·        Print out as professionally as possible (photographic paper)
·        Cut to size carefully and submit in plastic wallet with name clearly labelled
·        Post onto blog


       FINAL DEADLINE FOR COURSEWORK = Friday 9th March – 3.10pm English Office
All work to be printed out submitted to the English office.
Marks deducted for late submission
Pieces to be marked and marks submitted to NEF Friday 27th April.

Tuesday 28 February 2012

28/02/12

Task 1

Look over your teacher feedback sheet.
Upload onto Scribd and post onto your blog with a heading 'Teacher Feedback'.

Task 2

Write at least a paragraph, explaing how you are going to improve your final piece by the feedback you have received.

Monday 20 February 2012

AFL Work - Audience and Teacher feedback

Before receiving feedback from your teachers you must demonstrate an understanding of how you are marked. In addition you also need to demonstrate that your audience research extends to feedback on your product. 


Your task in your first two lessons back is to peer mark your classmates work as well as work provided by the exam board.


TASK 1


UPLOAD YOUR COVER, CONTENTS AND DPS ONTO YOUR BLOG


TASK 2


DOWNLOAD THE PEER MARKING BOOKLET FROM SCRIBD AND PRINT IT OFF (SCRIBD IS BEING WEIRD SO PRINTING IS THE ONLY OPTION)


TASK 3


MARK THE EXAMPLE WORK FROM THE EXAM BOARD. YOU MUST WRITE BRIEF COMMENTS EXPLAINING WHY YOU HAVE AWARED THE WORK THE LEVEL YOU HAVE.


Click on the hyperlinks below to be taken to the exemplar material.


The Beat Magazine


PM Magazine


MUSE Magazine


Music King Magazine


UPLOAD YOUR AFL WORK TO YOUR BLOG


TASK 4


PEER MARK YOUR OWN WORK AND TWO OF YOUR CLASSMATES WORK. EMAIL YOUR FEEDBACK TO YOUR CLASSMATES SO THEY CAN ADD YOUR FEEDBACK TO THEIR BLOG.


TASK 5


Only when these tasks are complete will you receive feedback from your teachers. Compare the feedback and marks, you DO NOT have to agree with our opinion (though you'd be silly to ignore it completely) but you DO have to demonstrate how you've responded to it.

Monday 30 January 2012

Your Pitch

Alex Sheldon -  http://youtu.be/bdH7NmGva7w
 Balpreet Atkar - http://youtu.be/P06QjBWgoVY
 Charlie Powell – http://youtu.be/Uki12-_Ff2E
Fraser Kennedyhttp://youtu.be/9g1xMub93KE
Jack Mugglestone – : http://youtu.be/pEvfY0zt7QI
Martyn Hollinshead – http://youtu.be/B3-SkgZkjqo
Michael Spierin – http://youtu.be/76979wT57BU
Molly Johnson – http://youtu.be/TUvdkWIiG4Y
Rebecca Chapman – http://youtu.be/2A_TPoS733I
Sophie Paul -  http://youtu.be/rZlJR8HAoqA

Jake Chadburn -  http://youtu.be/Pl4OvfMhROw 

REMINDER DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY!


       Monday 23rd Jan-Fri 3rd Feb
·        Lessons to pitch idea to class and receive feedback
·        Evaluate class feedback
·        Test shots of work on magazine elements
·        Complete mock version of cover/ contents page/ double page spread (1 lesson)
·        Write draft article
·        Begin composing cover/contents page/ double page spread (draft version)
       
Friday 3rd February = Research and Planning FINAL DEADLINE
Marks deducted for late submission
Students to be placed on intervention list if work not completed.
Teachers to introduce evaluation questions 1, 5