1. Course Overview

Course Overview

This is my blog for AS Media Studies and it will contain all my work that I will complete. 

This year we will be focusing on:

• Initial ideas
• Key Terminology
• Key Theory
• Media Techniques - Shot Types
• Media Techniques - Mise-en-scene
• Media Techniques - Sound
• Media Techniques - Editing

Below is the OCR specification link for this year that we will be following this year and contains all the work we will be covering. 

http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/81037-specification.pdf 

These specifications are going to be relevant to my coursework throughout.

This is a coursework unit where candidates produce a media artefact from a series of briefs. This process involves progression from a pre-production, 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 digital format and do an evaluation in digital format, based on seven required prompt questions. This unit is internally assessed and externally moderated. 

The brief that we will be doing this year is based on video:

Video

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. 

Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.