AS
Foundation Portfolio in Media
The
purpose of this unit is firstly to assess your ability to plan and construct
media products using appropriate technical and creative skills; secondly to
assess your application of knowledge and understanding in evaluating your own
work, showing how meanings and responses are created; and finally to assess your
ability to undertake, apply and present appropriate research. The unit requires you to engage with
contemporary media technologies, giving you the opportunity for the development
of skills in these technologies.
This
is a coursework unit, internally assessed and externally moderated. You will produce a media artefact in response
to the brief set. You will also show
appropriate evidence of research and planning. The task provides progression from a
pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully realised piece in the same
medium. This means that skills
development will be assessed, as well as a final finished
piece.
Design
Brief
Preliminary
exercise:
using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new
school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up
plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of
the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of the
program.
Main
task:
the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music
magazine.
All
images and text must be original and produced by you. You must have a minimum of FOUR
images.
Marking
Criteria
The
unit is marked out of 100: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and
research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the
evaluation.
Research
and planning and the evaluation must all be presented electronically. In your
case your will be each create a blog that records your planning and research
processes and then provides an evaluation of the finished
portfolio.
