Planning - Initial Ideas

We're working on some initial ideas during Wednesday's lesson. You'll be recording ideas onto a pro-forma that I'll give you. Make sure that you hang onto all of this sort of planning material - we'll submit anything useful in addition to the blog.

There are two strands to what we'll be doing over the next week or so - you'll be carrying out research (into similar media products and a potential target audience) and we'll be filming and editing your preliminary tasks. The quality of finish for the preliminary tasks is not hugely important and I don't actually give it a mark. However you will have 15 marks deducted from your construction mark (out of a possible 60) if you don't do it.

I'm going to discuss the research tasks further on Thursday - in the meantime you can check out the criteria that will be used to mark your planning and research on page 65 and 66 of the specification - it's very clear how marks are awarded. The spec can be found here:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/Data/publications/key_documents/AS_ALevel_GCE_Media_Studies_Specification.pdf

You can also look at the evaluation questions and the marking criteria for the evaluation and and construction too.