AS G321 Foundation Portfolio in Media

Objective
1 -This unit assesses your ability to plan and construct media products using appropriate technical and creative skills (AO3).
2 - This unit also assesses your application of knowledge and understanding in evaluating your own work, showing how meanings and responses are created (AO2).
3- You will also be assessed on your ability to undertake, apply and present appropriate research (AO4).

You will produce two paired media artefacts in response to briefs set, you will also be required to show evidence of research and planning. The set briefs consists of a preliminary exercise, then a more fully realised piece in the same medium. The development of your skills between pieces will be assessed as well as your finished piece.

Print
Preliminary excercise : using DTP and Photoshop, 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. Produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page.

Main task: the front page, contents and double age spread of a new music magazine (this can be done as a group task)
All images and text used must be original and produced by you. You must include a minimum of four images.

Blogging:
Presentation of the research, planning and evaluation should be done in the format of a blog. This MUST be kept up to date.

Assessment:
This unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks: 20 marks for presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation