Example Research and Planning for G321

Initial ideas mind map;

This shows my first thoughts on the three possible genres. From this I can see I have the most knowledge and understanding of the horror and syfy/fantasy genre. Horror would be easier to do while some of my ideas for syfy/fantasy are possibly a little out of my means. 

Ideally I'd like to combine the two creating a horror urban fantasy cross genre...

G325 Prep - We Media, Global Media and Media in the Online Age

Week 1 'we media’ and democracy from tdcjackson

We media & democracy key terms activity from Media Studies

L1 introduction to the unit from Nick Crafts

G325 Prep - Overview and Section A Focus

As we get ever closer to the exam we need to start looking at how to improve on the mocks marks. I have included, below, two presentations on the exam - one offering general information on both the exam and advanced portfolio (you can ignore the advanced portfolio stuff) and the other looks at key concepts in relation to your own production work.

I'd recommend, as your planning and research for G324 comes to an end you focus on evaluating your work and exploring your topic choice for Critical Media Perspectives. For some of the topics you do not need a case study as such but would definitely benefit from using example questions to help you prepare fully for the exam.

 

Revision Guide A2 Media OCR from reigatemedia

 

G325 Key Media Concepts from egregson

 

OCR A2 Media studies Exam Questions 1a and 1b tips UPDATED from Mr Smith

G324 - Digipak Design Task

Have found a couple of examples of Digipaks which show you the planning process you should be going through in your own work;

My Digipak Plan from LizzieFinlay

 

 

 

Digipak planning and designs from Tia5133


Link to page for templates:  http://www.duplication.ca/printspecs/digipack.htm

G321 Coursework marking

I have started to mark your blogs for the research and planning component of G321 and am a little surprised to see work still missing.

I posted the link to the booklet, which explained what you needed to include and had advice on how to do well, a while back. All of you should have saved a copy to refer to - especially as the booklet had a checklist of tasks on the back. I am assuming that not all of you did.

I have uploaded the booklet to slideshare, and posted it below, for you to access. I suggest you do.

G321 booklet(1) from Charlotte Cowles

For those of you missing work, I have graded what you have on your blogs. I will look at them again on the 9th March. If work is still missing you will be expected to attend intervention.

Year 12 and 13 Deadlines

For both year 12 and 13 the deadline for research, planning and analysis is the end of this half term. Work should be uploaded to your blog by the end of the day Friday 13th Feb.

If you have any problems getting work to upload then you need to either email it to me or print it out and hand it to me. Don't pass it on to anyone else to give me. I would like the opportunity to mark all this work and feedback on it after the half term break so, if needed, you have plenty of time to add and improve work.

Therefore the only work you should have left to complete after half term is the filming and editing of your film opening/music video. You have until Easter to get that done and then the Easter holidays and two weeks following the holidays to evaluate and further improve on any tasks. 

Therefore the actual final deadline for evaluations is the 24th April. I have to get marks sent off on the 27th so there is no chance of extending this. If you miss it your evaluations will not be marked and the marks will not be added to your overall grade. 

G325 Exam Prep - Section B Notes

Bullet point checklists for exam revision, from Friday's lesson.