Filming on Saturday

For the next two week we will be shooting part of the AS groups work with the proffesionals to hand. It will be a brilliant experience - all students welcome - 9.00 am start.

Examiners Comments

Below you'll find all of the info that you need to get an idea of how to produce quality pieces.


Try this.

Use ideas from other groups and try to get an idea of how you could use various formats and technologies to produce the best piece possible.

High level example of blog for A2 - Music video

http://musicvideoalexanderwhitcombe.blogspot.com/

Low level example of blog for A2 - Music video

http://alevelgroup1a.blogspot.com/

Projects you can undertake:

These are the briefs you can choose from to produce your A-level materials:

You can work in groups of up to 4 and must catalogue your work on the blogs as you go. You must create new blogs and have a link to your old one.

1. 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 as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package);

a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package).

2. A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with two of the following three options:

a website homepage for the film;

a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;

a poster for the film.

3. A promotion package for a new soap opera, to include a TV trailer, together with two of the following three options:

a listings magazine front cover featuring the new soap;

two hyperlinked webpages (with video extract) for the soap’s website;

a poster for the soap.

4. An extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

a radio trailer for the documentary;

a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;

a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.

5. A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:

a poster for the film;

a radio trailer for the film;

a film magazine review page featuring the film.

THE A LEVEL STARTS HERE!

So you made it on to A2 - well done, hopefully you enjoyed the first part of the course and will now be in a position to build on your skills and knowledge - there is a lot more directed time available to you in this part of the course; make sure you use it wisely.

You must put in the hours on your own as half of the grade for this year is for your coursework and then half of the exam is based around you writing about your experiences and knowledge in a critical manner.

For a B - C

Level 3 36–47 marks

There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:

framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;

using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;

shooting material appropriate to the task set;

selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;

manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing;

accurately using language and register;

appropriately integrating illustration and text;

showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;

showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;

using ICT appropriately for the task set.

JUSTIFY EVERYTHING!!!!!

anything you add to our blog or idea needs a source of inspiration - say why you're doing it.

Evaluation

Make sure your evaluation answers all of these points in detail:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

Who would be the audience for your media product?

How did you attract/address your audience?

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

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

For a D

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:

framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;

using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;

shooting material appropriate to the task set;

selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;

manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing;

accurately using language and register;

appropriately integrating illustration and text;

showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;

showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;

using ICT appropriately for the task set.

For an A

Level 4 48–60 marks

There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:

framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;

using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;

shooting material appropriate to the task set;

selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;

manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping and resizing;

accurately using language and register;

appropriately integrating illustration and text;

showing understanding of conventions of layout and page design;

showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size;

using ICT appropriately for the task set.

DON'T USE DARK BACKGROUNDS!!!!

If you are in any doubt about what I am asking of you, re-read the title!

Use colours that are bright.

The Mark Scheme

Click the following link http://www.ocr.org.uk/download/kd/ocr_9646_kd_gce_spec.pdf

and you'll get the course outline, the pages you're most interested in are pages 11, 60 and 61 - which exaplain all you need to complete work to a highgrade.

Sample Blog

Since you've all been asking, here is a sample blog, that got a Low level 3 grade (High C)

http://alevelgroup1a.blogspot.com/

Enjoy, but not copy and paste enjoy!

Camera Shot Sheet

Click on the image for a full size, printable version.

First Blog Lesson

Lesson Title: Working Together

Aims:

To predict which qualities of a film earn the highest marks.

To isolate the key characteristics of working well in a group.