The document outlines the AS Media Studies coursework structure, where students will research the print industry and create their own music magazine pages. It details the marking criteria for research, production, and evaluation, which collectively account for 50% of the overall grade. Key deadlines for submissions are also specified, with a strict requirement to meet them or face disciplinary action.

1. Starter- Introduce yourselves!
• Why did you choose Media Studies?
• What do you expect from the course?
• How are you going to achieve/ exceed your
target grade in Media?
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2. Introduction to AS Media Studies
Learning Objective:
• To go through the course outline in particular
the Foundation Portfolio in Media
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3. Introduction
Your coursework task will be to research
the print industry and then produce your
own pages for a new music magazine.
You will:
 Carry out research on existing products
 Produce draft designs
 Complete a preliminary task
 Produce your final product
 Evaluate your work
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4. Learning outcomes:
•How to analyse a print product
•How to carry out audience
research
•How to use indesign
•How to design a layout
•How to represent an audience
and social group
•How to evaluate
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5. Marking
Your coursework is 50% of your overall grade
You will be marked out of 100
You can get up to 20 marks for research and planning
You can get up to 60 marks for production
You can get up to 20 marks for evaluation
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6. Marking
Your work will be marked against 4 different levels:
 Level 1 - Minimal
 Level 2 - Basic
 Level 3 - Proficient
 Level 4 - Excellent
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7. Coursework
To complete your coursework you must submit:
 Complete research and planning documentation – presented via a
blog.
 Preliminary school/ college magazine task – presented in a blog
and submitted electronically
 Front cover, contents page and double page spread – submitted
electronically (via a blog)
 Evaluation presented in a blog– submitted electronically
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8. Research & Planning
Your research & planning will be marked against the following
criteria:
 Your research into similar products and target audience
 Your organisation of actors, locations, costumes and props
 Your work on layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.
 The care you have taken in the presentation of your research and
planning
 Your time management
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9. Production
Your production skills will be marked against the following criteria:
 Your framing of shots and the way you include and exclude elements as
appropriate
 Your skill at using a variety of shot distances as appropriate
 Your ability to shoot material appropriate to the task set
 Your selection of mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and
setting
 Your manipulation of photographs as appropriate to the context for
presentation, including cropping and resizing
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10. Production cont.
 Your ability to accurately using language and register
 Your skill in appropriately integrating illustration and text
 Showing your understanding of conventions of layout and page design
 Showing your awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size
 Your use of ICT appropriately for the task
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11. Evaluation
Your evaluation will be marked against the following criteria:
 Your ability to refer to the choices you have made and the
outcomes
 Your understanding of your development from preliminary to
main task
 Your ability to communicate
 Your skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation.
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12. Deadlines
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Your finished project is due in on the 10th
February 2014
Your research is due in on the 24th October
Your planning is due in on the 20th December 2013
Your pages must be complete by the 20th January 2014
Your evaluation must be complete by 3rd February 2014

13. Deadlines
You will be set tasks during your first lesson of the week
You will have the remainder of lesson time that week and any
homework time required to complete the task
Each piece of work will have a deadline
Each deadline must be met
Failure to do so will result in disciplinary action
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14. Look at examples of work
• http://harrissouthnorwoodmediastudies.blogs
pot.co.uk/search/label/AS
• http://harrisacademypurley6thformmediablog
.blogspot.co.uk/
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