Monday 11 October 2010

JT - My Coursework Task

THE BRIEF, EVALUATION + HOW ITS ALL MARKED

THE BRIEF
Your mission is to carry out the following brief:
Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

The coursework is worth 50% of the AS (same at A2) and the marking (detailed later) is divided into 3 sections:
RESEARCH AND PLANNING: 20%
PRODUCTION: 60%
EVALUATION: 20%


EVALUATION

Even before I start shooting (let alone planning) my production, I need to keep this final stage in mind. If I start (b)logging notes on this now it will save me a lot of stress as the final deadline (in May!) approaches. I am tasked with answering these questions (see below for details on how this is marked):

  • 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?



HOW ITS ALL MARKED [ie THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA]

When my teacher is marking all this, they have got to write a paragraph for the exam board justifying the marks they have given me. The grid embedded below summarises the criteria they have to follow, and so I'am advised to occasionally re-read this and ask myself where I think I'll fall within the marking scheme!
For each section there are key components of the work which the teacher has to assess as being one of the following:
MINIMAL
BASIC
PROFICIENT
EXCELLENT 
G321 - Simplified Marking Criteria as 1 Sheet
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