Coursework ideas for the second year of Alevel. I have chosen three out of the fourteen that most appeal to me and I have explored the positives and negatives of each one.

1. COURSEWORK IDEAS
CHARLIE-MAE TAYLOR

2. MUSIC VIDEO
Brief
A promotion package for the release of an album, to include
a music promo video, together with two of the following
three options:
- a website homepage for the band
- a digipak for the album's release
- a magazine advertisement for the digipak

3. MUSIC GENRES

4. PROS AND CONS
PROS CONS
- Lots of previous examples to
look at- creating lots of
research
- Fun to create
- Variety of music to choose
from- all kinds of genres-
thousands of songs to choose
from
- Hard to find actors who will
commit
- Lots of hardwork- planning
locations, actors/performers,
camera angles, dates etc

5. CHILDREN’S TV DRAMA
Brief
A selection of materials related to an original children's TV
drama, to include the title sequence to the TV programme,
together with two of the following three options
- The front cover to a magazine for the series
- a DVD cover for the series
- a radio advertisement for the magazine

6. PROS AND CONS
PROS CONS
- Can be completely original
- Shows ability to work with a
variety of age ranges
- Creates a good role model
- Can be fun to create and can
learn new things about the
relationship between children
and adults
- Hard to find committed actors
- Worry of it coming across as
unrehearsed and ‘cheesy’
- Younger actors will be hard to
make sit still or do exactly what
you say

7. REGIONAL MAGAZINE
Brief
The first four pages from an original regional magazine (if done as a
group task, each member of the group to produce an individual
edition of the magazine, following the same house style), together
with the two of the following three options:
- a radio advertisement for the magazine
- two hyperlinked pages from the magazine's website
- a billboard advertisement for the magazine

8. PROS AND CONS
PROS CONS
- Your own work and your
own research
- You don’t have to rely on
actors or performers for
dropping out last minute as
it is a lot of independent
work
- Harder to find examples
- A lot more planning has to
go into what you want to
put into the pages as you
have to also consider what
would be in the rest of the
magazine