This document outlines the tasks and requirements for a BTEC Media course. It includes 4 tasks related to creating a blog on video technology and editing, editing footage, filming a classic film sequence, and filming a game show. It provides the criteria for passing, merit, and distinction levels for each task, focusing on demonstrating understanding and skills in video technology, editing principles, and practical production abilities.

1. Game Show Brief Overview
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
Unit 21- Understanding Video Technology

2. Task 1 – BTEC Media Blog
Deadline : Friday, October 4, 2013
Create a blog and post two entries:
1. Understanding Video Technology
• Television Standards
• Broadcast Systems
• Digital Recording
• Digital Editing
2. The Development and Principles of Editing
• Development
• Purposes
• Conventions & Techniques

3. Task 1 – PASS
Deadline : Friday, October 4, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Outline the development and main principles of editing
accurately
• Show basic understanding of technical terminology
Unit 21 - Understanding Video Technology
• Describe video technology and recording principles accurately
• Show a basic understanding of technical terminology

4. Task 1 – MERIT
Deadline : Friday, October 4, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Explain how or why one stage developed from another
• Explain how and why certain developments have become basic
practice
• Outline strengths and weakness of given techniques
• Detail illustrative examples taken from specific films
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Explain video technology and recording principles clearly and
in some detail
• Explain how a wide range of equipment, formats and systems
are used, how domestic and broadcasting systems differ
• Explain why different formats are mutually incompatible

5. Task 1 – DISTINCTION
Deadline : Friday, October 4, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Develop ideas critically when discussing the development
of editing
• Show a sophisticated understanding of the principles of
editing, explain exactly why a given principle has
developed.
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Fully explain video technology and recording principles and
will describe them in detail, developing explanations
critically (ie, compare and assess)
• Fuller and more extensive explanation, better application of
examples, and provision of argument to support points
made, plus the higher quality expression
• Technical vocabulary will be secure and used correctly and
confidently at all times

6. Task 2 – Cops & Robbers
Deadline : Friday, October 11, 2013
Edit a selection of footage that demonstrates you ability to:
• Use appropriate techniques
• Use appropriate transitions
• Use appropriate conventions
• Intercut
• Convey information effectively
• Use timelines
• Export footage

7. Task 2 – PASS
Deadline : Friday, October 11, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Correctly use and apply technology required to post-produce
raw footage
Unit 21 - Understanding Video Technology
• Apply key techniques and principles when editing

8. Task 2 – MERIT
Deadline : Friday, October 11, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Show skills in relation to the handling and understanding of
the software
• Work methodically and with some preparation
• Attempt more sophisticated post-production techniques
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Edit will exhibit only minor flaws
• Cut and transitions should suit the genre
• Competent selection of sound and vision
• Technical skills demonstrated with some inventiveness

9. Task 2 – DISTINCTION
Deadline : Friday, October 11, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Clearly understand the technology of post-production and
be able to use it in an extent of applications
• Work should bare comparison to professional work
• Work independently on your own edit
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Thorough preparation undertake before the edit begins
• All techniques with be entirely appropriate
• Editing will show a high level of ingenuity and elegance
• Work will be comparable with professional standards

10. Task 3 – Sons & Daughters of Rambo
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Film and edit a classic film sequence, demonstrating your
competence in:
1. Camera operation
• Colour temperature
• White balance
• Colour bar
• Gain
• Shutter speed
• Iris
• Shooting in colour / shooting in black and white
2. Post-production
• Preparing to edit
• Editing

11. Task 3 – PASS
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Evidence of an awareness of the process of preparing for an
edit.
• Documentation of logging sheets
• Apply key techniques and principles of editing
Unit 21 - Understanding Video Technology
• Correctly use and apply the technology required for a video
shoot
• Correctly use and apply technology required to post-produce
raw footage
• Show skills in relation to the handling and understanding of
the software
• Work methodically and with some preparation
• Attempt more sophisticated post-production techniques

12. Task 3 – MERIT
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Apply editing preparation techniques systematically
• Produce documents that are functional and prepared with
some care
• Edit work with only minor technical flaws
• Display some imagination and inventiveness throughout the
edit
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Show confidence in relation to video recording skills, with
technically competent results
• Show skills in relation to the handling and understanding of
the software
• Work methodically and with some preparation
• Attempt more sophisticated post-production techniques

13. Task 3 – DISTINCTION
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Preparation will be systematic, well-developed and detailed
• Rushes log will show a full appreciation of the possibilities
and limitations of each shots.
• Edit decision list will be a usable blueprint for the final edit
• All paperwork will be clear, organised and to a near-
professional standard
• Editing will be technically accomplished and exhibit flair in
its use of structure, pace and combination of sound and
vision
• Techniques appropriate for the genre
• Editing will show a high level of ingenuity and elegance

14. Task 3 – DISTINCTION
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Use video technology in an extensive range of
applications, with near professional results
• Clearly understand the technology of post-production and
be able to use it in an extent of applications
• Work should bare comparison to professional work
• Work independently on their own edit

15. Task 4 – Game Show
Deadline : Friday, November 8, 2013
Film a game show for the BFI website, which tests contestants
knowledge of video technology and the development and
principles of editing. Filming this game show will allow you to:
1. Display your practical camera operating skills
2. Demonstrate your knowledge of video technology
3. Display your competence of studio / location set up
4. Display your understanding of the principles and development
of editing
5. Demonstrate your understanding of editing technology

16. Task 4 – PASS
Deadline : Friday, November 8, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Provide an outline of the development and main principles of
editing
• Show a basic understanding of the technical terminology of
editing
• Correctly use and apply technology required to post-produce
raw footage
• Evidence of an awareness of the process of preparing for an
edit.
• Documentation of logging sheets
• Apply key techniques and principles of editing

17. Task 4 – PASS
Deadline : Friday, November 8, 2013
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Describe video technology and recording principles accurately
• Show a basic understanding of technical terminology
• Apply key techniques and principles when editing
• Correctly use and apply the technology required for a video
shoot
• Correctly use and apply technology required to post-produce
raw footage
• Show skills in relation to the handling and understanding of
the software
• Work methodically and with some preparation
• Attempt more sophisticated post-production techniques

18. Task 4 – MERIT
Deadline : Friday, November 8, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Explain how or why one stage developed from another
• Explain how and why certain developments have become basic
practice
• Outline strengths and weakness of given techniques
• Detail illustrative examples taken from specific films
• Show skills in relation to the handling and understanding of
the software
• Work methodically and with some preparation
• Attempt more sophisticated post-production techniques
• Apply editing preparation techniques systematically
• Produce documents that are functional and prepared with
some care
• Edit work with only minor technical flaws
• Display some imagination and inventiveness throughout the
edit

19. Task 4 – MERIT
Deadline : Friday, November 8, 2013
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Explain video technology and recording principles clearly and
in some detail
• Explain how a wide range of equipment, formats and systems
are used, how domestic and broadcasting systems differ
• Explain why different formats are mutually incompatible
• Edit will exhibit only minor flaws
• Cut and transitions should suit the genre
• Competent selection of sound and vision
• Technical skills demonstrated with some inventiveness
• Show confidence in relation to video recording skills, with
technically competent results
• Show skills in relation to the handling and understanding of
the software
• Work methodically and with some preparation
• Attempt more sophisticated post-production techniques

20. Task 4 – DISTINCTION
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• Develop ideas critically when discussing the development
of editing
• Show a sophisticated understanding of the principles of
editing, explain exactly why a given principle has
developed
• Clearly understand the technology of post-production and
be able to use it in an extent of applications
• Work should bare comparison to professional work
• Work independently on your own edit
• Preparation will be systematic, well-developed and detailed
• Rushes log will show a full appreciation of the possibilities
and limitations of each shots.
• Edit decision list will be a usable blueprint for the final edit

21. Task 4 – DISTINCTION
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Unit 16 – Film and Video Editing Techniques
• All paperwork will be clear, organised and to a near-
professional standard
• Editing will be technically accomplished and exhibit flair in
its use of structure, pace and combination of sound and
vision
• Techniques appropriate for the genre
• Editing will show a high level of ingenuity and elegance

22. Task 4 – DISTINCTION
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Fully explain video technology and recording principles and
will describe them in detail, developing explanations
critically (ie, compare and assess)
• Fuller and more extensive explanation, better application of
examples, and provision of argument to support points
made, plus the higher quality expression
• Technical vocabulary will be secure and used correctly and
confidently at all times
• Thorough preparation undertake before the edit begins
• All techniques with be entirely appropriate
• Editing will show a high level of ingenuity and elegance
• Work will be comparable with professional standards

23. Task 4 – DISTINCTION
Deadline : Friday, October 25, 2013
Unit 21 – Understanding Video Technology
• Use video technology in an extensive range of
applications, with near professional results
• Clearly understand the technology of post-production and
be able to use it in an extent of applications
• Work should bare comparison to professional work
• Work independently on their own edit
• Use video technology in an extensive range of
applications, with near professional results