Sunday, 8 June 2014

Question 1A) Overview

Required to DESCRIBE and EVALUATE your skills development over the course of both foundation and advanced portfolios, looking a the production side of things.
The focus in the evaluation MUST be on skills development and the question requires you to focus on one or two specific production practices.

  • Digital Technology
  • Creativity
  • Research and Planning
  • Post Production
  • Using conventions from real media texts
Either one or two of these practices will be asked in the question paper. 

Example question: 'In your own experience, how was your creativity developed through using digital technology to complete your coursework productions.' 25 marks to complete in 30mins max.

ALLOCATION OF MARKS

Explanation/analysis/argument (10 marks)
Use of examples (10 marks)
Use of terminology (5 marks)

FOR HIGH MARKS

Complex issues have been expressed clearly and fluently using a style of writing, appropriate to the complex subject matter.  Sentences and paragraphs, consistently relevant, have been well structured, using appropriate technical terminology.  There may be a few, if any, errors of spelling, punctuation and grammar.

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For any of the questions that you may get in the exam you need to talk about:

  1. Preliminary task for foundation portfolio + actual foundation portfolio (magazine cover etc)
  2. Advanced portfolio - Main and ancillary tasks.
Make sure to cover hardware, software and online tools that you used that apply to the question that you may get. 
- For example: If there was a question on post-production, you wouldn't talk about what you used to research and plan the media form.  Or what you used during the actual filming or taking pictures process. 

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The idea of this question is to indicate the progression over the two years.  Highlight what you was taught and learnt in the preliminary task and how it made it easier to complete my final tasks.  It may be that it made me more aware of the possibilities that you were working with.

With your secondary year, although there was no preliminary task, you did complete some practical prep - action match (door), discussion (shot reverse shot), locked down shot, dolly work and panning?

You also used iMovie as your introduction to timelines and video editing, and that meant it was easier to learn the more advanced Premier Pro for example.

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Paragraph One - Introduction; Address and define key terms.
Paragraph Two - Technology has taken all the creativity out of media production.  This would seem to be a good starting point, then state what projects you actually did for each of the two units.
Paragraph Three - Starting with the foundation portfolio, do not hesitate to highlight anything you could've done better.
Paragraph Four - Go to advanced portfolio making sure you highlight the progression you have made and being more aware you are of the possibilities and potential.
Paragraph Five - Conclusion/ Summary


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