Coursework

-There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target audience.

 -There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.

-There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding. 

 -There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning 

 -Time management is excellent.

Marking Criteria for the Evaluation

Candidates will evaluate their work electronically. This MUST contain an element of audience feedback and may be either integrated with the presentation of the research and planning material or may be presented separately.

Level 4 16–20 marks

Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production. 

 Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.

Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.

Excellent ability to communicate. 

Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation

 

Level 4 48-60 marks

- using a variety of shot differences

- 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.

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

Brief from the exam board

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 candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of 4 images per candidate.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.

Each candidate will evaluate and reflect upon the creative process and their experience of it. Candidates will evaluate their work electronically, this evaluation being guided by the set of key questions below. This evaluation may be done collectively for a group production or individually.

 

 The evaluation the following questions must be answered:

  

 

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

 

G321 is marked and internally standardised by the centre and marks are submitted to OCR by a specified date, a sample is then selected for external moderation. The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation. 

 

 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?