AS Foundation Portfolio in Media

The purpose of this unit is firstly to assess your ability to plan and construct media products using appropriate technical and creative skills; secondly to assess your application of knowledge and understanding in evaluating your own work, showing how meanings and responses are created; and finally to assess your ability to undertake, apply and present appropriate research. The unit requires you to engage with contemporary media technologies, giving you the opportunity for the development of skills in these technologies.

This is a coursework unit, internally assessed and externally moderated. You will produce a media artefact in response to the brief set. You will also show appropriate evidence of research and planning. The task provides progression from a pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully realised piece in the same medium. This means that skills development will be assessed, as well as a final finished piece.

Design Brief

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally you must produce a mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate your grasp of the program.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text must be original and produced by you.You must have a minimum of FOUR images.

Marking Criteria

The unit is marked out of 100: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research; 60 marks for the construction; 20 marks for the evaluation.

Research and planning and the evaluation must all be presented electronically. In your case your will be each create a blog that records your planning and research processes and then provides an evaluation of the finished portfolio.