A2 G324: Advanced Portfolio In Media

The unit requires you to engage with contemporary media technologies, giving you the opportunity to develop your own skills in these technologies. It also enables you to develop the skills of presentation that are required for further study at higher levels and in the workplace.

From this brief you will produce:

• A media portfolio, comprising a main text.
• A presentation of research, planning and evaluation in digital formats.

The media portfolio will be produced through a combination of 2 or more of the following media:

• Video
• Print

Each candidate will reflect upon their work digitally. This evaluation may be done collectively for a group production or individually. Examples:

• A blog
• DVD
• Powepoint

MARKED OUT OF 100.

Evaluation:

In the evaluation the following 4 questions will be adressed:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
• What have you learned from audience feedback?
• How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evalutation stages?

Assignment Brief:

You have been commisioned by a production company to create a promotion package for a new film, inspired by an original greaphic narrative idea of your own.

To include a trailer, plus:

• A film magazine front cover, feat. the film.
• A poster for the film.

This will be done in 3 stages:

1. Research - including film trailer and graphic narrative case studies. Magazine and poster conven
2. Construction - Of your trailer, magazine cover and poster.
3. Evaluation - It is recommended that you work on this throughout the first two stages.