AS Media Studies Explained

G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media This is a coursework unit where you produce two paired media artefacts from a series of briefs. This process involves progression from a pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully realised piece. This unit is internally assessed and externally moderated.

Preliminary Exercise Brief: 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 Brief: 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.

Bond

G322:Key Media Concepts The purpose of these units is first to assess your media textual analysis skills and understanding of the concept of representation using a short unseen moving image extract; second to assess your knowledge and understanding of media institutions and their production processes, distribution strategies, use of technologies and related issues concerning audience reception and consumption of media texts. 

Sherlock Holmes

The examination is two hours (including 30 minutes for viewing and making notes on the moving image extract) and you are required to answer two compulsory questions. The unit is marked out of a total of 100, with each question marked out of 50.

  

Section A's current topic is BRITISH TV Drama  - The sequence will be taken from a contemporary British one-off or series or serial drama programme. 

Looking at one of the following:

• Gender
• Age
• Ethnicity
• Sexuality
• Class & Status
• Physical Ability / disability
• Regional Identity

Previous Extracts include:

• Coming Down the Mountian
• Merlin
• Primevil
• Doctor Who
• Hotel Babylon

HP

Section B Ms Rolfe currently teaches Film - A study of a specific studio or production company within a contemporary film industry that targets a British audience (eg Hollywood, Bollywood, UK film), including its patterns of production, distribution, exhibition and consumption by audiences. This should be accompanied by study of contemporary film distribution practices (digital cinemas, DVD, HD-DVD, downloads, etc) and their impact upon production, marketing and consumption.