Deadlines

1. Friday 8th October 2010: all planning completed and uploaded to blog :
all research completed in to genre, artist
music video analysis x2
star image analysis
props and location lists shooting schedule
storyboard and breakdown of video
animatic storyboard

2. Friday 22nd October 2010 rough cut of video uploaded to blog

3. Tuesday 30th November 2010 Final Video on blog

4. Friday 10th December 2010 ancillary text completed

5. Tuesday 14th December 2010 draft evaluation completed

6. Final Deadline Friday 7th 2011 January final evaluation on blog and any other supporting work

Brief

A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

• a website homepage for the band;


• a cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package);


• a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package).

Overview of Unit G324

Candidates will produce:

1. a media portfolio, comprising a main and ancillary texts;

2. a presentation of their research, planning and evaluation in electronic format　

The media portfolio will be produced through a combination of two or more of the following media:

Video

Print

Web-based

Audio

Games software　

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. Examples of suitable formats for the evaluation are:

A podcast

DVD extras

A blog

A powerpoint

The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks:

20 marks for the planning and research and its presentation;

60 marks for the construction;

20 marks for the evaluation.

In 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?

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?