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OCR Specification

* Follow the set up sheet to create your own

Gmail account, blog, Scribd account and Youtube account, slideshare, vimeo account.

*Understand the basics of the

course specification

*Create media blogs and learn

about online learning.
SCRIBD, YOUTUBE.

* Setting up of online working practice including BLOG,

*Create first recorded media

project and post to blog:
camera reflection and comments.

* Explanation of learning process using blogs, on * Administrative work and first filming project. Creating
a story using still images. Cutting them on iMovie and adding voice-over.

*What do mean understand as the media? *Discuss with one other and come up with
your definition. *Write this down on post-it

*When we study the media what actually

are we studying?

*A media platform is delivery method for

that form of media.

*There are three broad groupings of *To help answer this question think

platform what do you think they might be? about the ways in which YOU engage with what you think the media is.

*These are the three main groupings for what

we loosely call the media.

*Put three headings in your books and list

underneath them all the different products you might expect to find on these different platforms. Examples: newspapers (print), magazines (print) etc.

*How do the three platforms cross-over?

*This is a coursework unit where candidates produce a

media artifact from a series of briefs. *This process involves progression from a preproduction, preliminary exercise to a more fully realised piece. *The briefs offered are: print, video, audio and website. Candidates present their research and planning in either paper-based or electronic format and do an evaluation in electronic format, based on a series of prompt questions. *This unit is internally assessed and externally moderated.

*This paper covers the two areas of Textual Analysis

and Representation alongside Institutions and Audiences.

*In Section A, candidates answer questions on an

unseen moving image extract that is then linked to some aspect of the representation within the sequence.

*In Section B, candidates study a specific media

industry from a choice of: film, music, newspapers, radio, magazines or video games.

*This unit is externally examined.

*G322: Key Media

Concepts (TV Drama)

* Key words * Media Platforms * Media Products * Media Concepts * Media Languages

* Using iMac plan and record a short discussion

between three people about your use of Media

* Success criteria * DID YOU SET UP YOUR BLOG, SCRIBD AND

YOUTUBE ACCOUNT?

* DO YOUI UNDERSTAND THE OVERALL

REQUIREMENTS OF THE SPECIFICATION AND KNOW HOW TO FIND OUT THE DETAIL BY LOOKING ONLINE?

* Set up your scribd and youtube/vimeo accounts * Write a first post in which you discuss the following. * Understanding the media is vital to modern life.
Discuss. Min 500 words * Watch the opening five minutes of 3 movies of your own choice and describe and comment on what happens. Use the following key words to help: visual language(vision), aural language (sound), written language, story, genre, audience appeal.

* Post written work onto your blog by Friday