AS Coursework: Research and Planning Log

MY AS MEDIA STUDIES COURSEWORK: RESEARCH AND PLANNING PROGRESS LOG

The 50% of our coursework element in Media Studies at Wymondham High allows students to express their creativity and originality in the creation of their own media products. Our coursework is to create, film and edit a film opening lasting around 2 minutes.

AS (Year 12) 50% Coursework 
1- Students will create the opening 2 minutes of an original feature film in any genre. 
This will involve coming up with the concept, plot, casting, scripting, storyboards, filming, editing etc...
(60 marks) 

2- Research and Planning Blog. 
Each student will create and run their own online blog detailing research into existing film openings, genre, narrative, and other areas of the film industry. As well as planning their own film in the casting, scripting, storyboards stages. 
The blog allows for the uploading of video diaries, clips, images and text. (20 marks) 

3- Evaluation Questions 
- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
- 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?
- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt in the progression from it to your main product.
(20 marks) 

All of this coursework will be uploaded to this blog.
Total marks available for AS coursework: 100 

Below is the OCR mark scheme for the Research and Planning elements:

Level 4 16–20 marks 

• Planning and research evidence will be complete and detailed; 
• 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.

To the right are my ideas before looking at the OCR mark scheme of the order of importance of these factors. Click to enlarge photo.

(The most important at the top with the least important at the bottom, and those in the middle of equal importance).

To the left are my ideas of order of importance after looking at the mark scheme. Click photo to enlarge.









LR