A level media A2- section A part 1
- 2. }Creativity }Research and Planning }Real Media Conventions }Digital Technology }Post Production YOU MUST TALK ABOUT BOTH AS AND A2 COURSEWORK- EVEN GCSE IF YOU DID IT
- 3. -Strong answers have a range of specific examples. -Weaker answers are just descriptive. -Technical and conceptual terminology needed. -Evaluation and critical reflection on your work is needed. -There needs to be a sense of progression over your A level journey.
- 6. Digital Technology: you need to consider the impact of the new technologies you have used on your consumption and production of media texts. Consider how you have presented your work, have you used blogs? How has the internet supported you skills development? Consider the pros and con’s of the digital technology you have used.
- 7. How did it compare to A2? Things you can include: -Blogs/websites -Questionnaires -Slideshare -Film and upload to -Flickr YouTube -Facebook -Vlogs -Digital Photography - Notes/annotations -Software and Hardware
- 8. You need to consider the skills you have learnt during AS with the following software: Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere Pro, Wordpress or any other blog system.
- 9. Para 1: Creating a magazine at AS and how you researched and created it compared to how you made your magazine at A2. Para 2: Development of Web 2.0- premier pro development- never using it in AS. Para 3: How you created your poster in AS compared to A2.
- 11. Ask yourself the question: Have i become more creative? -Consider the pro’s and con’s of the technology you have used and how it has impacted your creativity. -How creative do you think you were in the decisions you made when creating your coursework? -Did the technology enhance your creativity or not? -What ideas did you communicate and what stylistic techniques did you use? How did it relate to your interests? -Was this original or did you add something extra to an existing media text? -Would you take any creative skills into future projects of have you been influenced to engage these skills in other projects?
- 12. Ken Robinson has the best definition of creativity which is ‘the process of having original ideas that have value’- did you achieve this
- 13. Para 1: How much has your creativity developed? Was your AS magazine cover as creative as your A2 one.Para 2: Did you stick religiously to magazine conventions or did you stretch them? How did this help your creativity? Remember to give specific examples! Para 3: Did you do enough research? Did you try and fit your product around your ideas or did you alter them. EXAMPLES HERE.
- 15. -How have you reviewed real text examples and discussed conventions? -Analysis of old student work and discuss marking criteria. -How you planned the microelement. -Research into audience expectations -How did you organise your research and planning? -What did you research? -How did drafting help you? -How did audience feedback improve your planning? -How organised were you? -What did you learn about working as part of a group? -How did you research your research and planning?
- 16. Para 1: Websites such as survey monkey- going from using paper questionnaires too using survey monkey. How did this help your production? Be critical of your own work. Para 2: Did you watch a lot of YouTube videos when making your trailer? How was this compared to how much you research into your AS production? Para 3: How much did you plan? Did everyone in your group get their ideas across? How well did you plan your production? Did everyone turn up to filming sessions?
- 18. -Post production as A2 might have consisted of editing the material and putting all the titles and music together on Adobe Premiere Pro or editing images and putting text together on Photoshop/InDesign. This is very similar to the software listed as part of Digital Technology. -You need to identify all of the steps you take once you had either filmed or Photographed- to do this accurately it will be helpful to look at your work and make a list of everything you did in order to get to the finished stage. -Post production is everything that happens after filming.
- 19. Para 1: What was your AS task? How did you edit it? Did you draw things? Rough designs and ideas? How did things such as social media help? What software did you use? Para 2: How did you edit your footage at A2? Was it harder than the editing process at AS? Para 3: Did you use a lot of self-help videos when it came to preparing to edit your work? BE CRITICAL
- 21. How did you use real media texts to influence yours? Video: How did you develop the conventions of real documents- current trailers, posters and magazines, how they inspired you and the research that you did into them. Print conventions include: -Shot types, camera angles, camera framework -Mise-en-scene Continuity
- 22. Para 1: Did you look into conventions deep enough at AS? How did this develop in A2 and how did you use more conventions? USE VERY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES Para 2: Did you use other trailers to influence yours? How much did you use them, perhaps too much sometimes? What has this shown you? Again, relate back to a specific example. Para 3: Did any storylines catch your eye? Did you use any story lines or develop old ones or did you become more creative in your second year than your first? Examples are key.