Choosing a brief

We where given 13 breifs to choose from. These are my top 4

1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the three options:

• a website homepage for the band
• a cover for its release on DVD 
• a magazine advertisment for the DVD

2.  A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with two of the folowing three options:

• a website hompage for the film 
• a fil magazine front cover, featuring the film
• a poster for the film

3. An advertising package for a new product or service, to include two TV advertisments, together with two of the folowing three options:

• a radio advertisment
• a TV programe sponsorship sequence
• a web pop-up

10. A short film in its entirety, lasting approximantly five minuites, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the folowing three options;

• a poster for the film
• a radio trailor for the film
• a film magazine review page featuring the film

A2 media questions

Question 1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 2:
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Question 3:
What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Question 4:
How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and the evaluation stages?

First lesson back

In our first A2 lesson we where told about our advance portfolios and understanding a broad range of texts. The question of how companies created excitement for their movies came up. We came up with teaser trailers ->trailers-> movies.


with our advanced portfolios we would be creating something from a given brief. The portfolio created must have two or more of the following media:
*Video
*Print
*Web-based
*Audio
*Games software
We would also have a presentation to show our research, planning and evaluation.


For our exam it would be a 50/50 for our practical and theory marks. The practical is marked out of 100-
      20- planning and research
      60 construction - 40 production
                                - 20 ancillary texts
      20 evaluation


Our teacher advised us to look at the evaluation questions throughout our projects to ensure that we are able to answer them at the end of the year.

Labels we are advised to use

- Research into similar products
- Potential target audience
- Actors, characters, interview subjects
- Locations
- Costumes
- Props
- Shot lists
- Layouts
- Drafting
- Scripting
- Storyboard
- Time management

AS media final piece review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU6tjz_3MoU&feature=player_embedded

Area of success



areas of improvement