Friday 12 December 2014

Main Task

It's very useful to have a look at http://ocrmediastudies.weebly.com/coursework-with-levels.html to get a sense of expectations and mark bands before you begin.

The brief:

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. 

Full Specifciation: http://www.ocr.org.uk/images/81037-specification.pdf

There are 20 marks available for research and planning your project. The tasks detailed below will help you maximise your marks for this area:

1.You will give a detailed analysis of the codes and conventions of the chosen genre you have picked (this MUST NOT be a copy and paste exercise).
2. I would suggest that you would then choose a minimum of FIVE films to analyse in terms of titles, music, shot types, mise en scene and whether this film follows or challenges the codes and conventions for this genre.
3. Look at the target audience for the film and how each film attracted their target audience.
3. What type of company distributes your chosen films?
4. How have social groups been represented in these films and how does this relate to the target audience?
5. What are audience expectations for these films?
6. Try and present your findings in an interesting digital format (video-log, Glogster, Prezi, Wordle, Soundcloud, Slideshare, Blogger, Charts, Graphs, Questionnaires etc).

Marking Criteria

Marking Criteria for the Presentation of the Research and Planning

Research and Planning should be presented in digital format on blogs, using a wide variety of digital media for the presentation. Where candidates have worked as a group, this may be presented collectively, but teachers are asked to differentiate the contributions of individuals within the group in arriving at a mark and justifying individual marks on the assessment sheet. Each candidate should give a clear indication of their role in any group research and planning. As part of the moderation sample, the moderator will expect to see full evidence of the research and planning informing the construction process in order to support assessment. 

RESEARCH MS
Level 4 16–20 marks
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  •   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. 


VIDEO MSMARK SCHEME:
Level 4 48–60 marks

There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills: 
  •   material appropriate for the target audience and task; 
  •   using titles appropriately according to institutional conventions; 
  •   using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set; 
  •   shooting material appropriate to the task set;, including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot distance and close attention to mise-en-scene; 
  •   using editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions and other effects.