April 1st 2009 URGENT

Good morning Year 12,
I am unwell today and am not in school. That does not mean you get free time I'm afraid. You are in the Macs for a triple this morning, so Mr P will be checking on your progress during Period 3. By the end of today you must have either:
1. Completed your foundation production, turned it into a movie file and handed it into the MEDIA folder or
2. Nearly finished your foundation production, and contacted me below telling me whether you will be finishing it in school on Monday or Tuesday next week - the school gates are only open from 8.45-9.15 so make sure you get here on time 0r
3. Have finished your planning and research sections, (Matt/Joe)

I will see all of you on the first Wednesday back and everyone must have handed in the production and have posted all their planning and research by then.

PROBLEM: the system is overloading becuase of the massive amount of footage on the PCs. Please can you delete/remove any unwanted pieces of digital media but take care to keep the bits that you will want to post into your blog in your evaluation to show progress. It is essential that you do this otherwise the system might crash.

Good luck - if there are any technical difficulties please contact Mr Hill (ICT technician) and if you have any questions I will check this blog mid-morning.

HOMEWORK

By Wednesday 25th March you must have completed the following:

1. All textual analysis needs to be reworked, ensuring correct media terminology has been used. See extra post for an example.

2. All audience research needs to have been written up, transferred into graphs and conclusions made.

3. All explanations of excellent organisation for actors, locations, costumes and props need to be complete and online/emailed to me. H.Blackmore@mangotsfieldschool.org.uk

How do I show excellent organisation?

You must show that you, yourself showed excellent organisational skills. I would start this off by writing a paragraph outlining your contribution to the production process, were you responsible for location research, costumes, equipment, scripting etc? This paragraph is essential as I have to differentiate between team member's contributions.

You must show that you researched and organised the following:

1. actors

2. locations

3. costumes

4. props

You could do this by simply writing a paragraph on each or annotating images from your research.

Try to be creative in your approach.

Good Luck.

Foundation Portfolio G321 Video

Research and Planning - 20 marks

You may chose one of the following options to present your Research and Planning:

1. A presentation using slideshow software such as Powerpoint;
2. A bog or website
3. A podcast
4. A DVD with extras
5. A scrapbook or folder

Within this part of your portfolio you must showthe following in order to achieve a level 4:

• 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.
• Time management is excellent.
• There is excellent use of digital technology in the presentation.

Each student must produce a separate form of evidence for the examiner.