Advanced Portfolio

Preliminary Exercise 2

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

Evaluate your finished film.

Advanced Production Preliminary Tasks

A2 Portfolio

You must learn how to use the technology before you begin your film trailer.

Complete the following tasks in order to develop your filming and editing skills:

Camera Skills

Take a 5 second shot using each of the following camera distances:

1. Medium Long Shot of a character inside

2. Close up of a female student

3. Extreme close up of a male or female student’s face

4. Two shot of a male and female student


Take a 5 second shot using each of the following camera angles:

1. High angle shot of a female student

2. Point of view shot of a character looking around a car park


Take a 5 second shot using each of the following camera movement:

1. Pan left – exterior

2. Crab left – interior

3. Crab right – exterior

4. Zoom in on a female character

5. Tilt down – female character outside


Editing Tasks

Task 1
Use Adobe Premier Elements to edit the shots in your film timeline into the following order:

1. Extreme Long Shot of the Blorange
2. Medium close up of a male teacher
3. Long Shot of three characters on the field
4. Zoom out on a male character
5. Tracking shot of a character walking
6. Big close up of a male student’s face
7. Bird’s eye shot of a male and female student
8. Extreme close up of an object
9. Close up of a hand on a door handle
10. Tilt up –male character inside
11. Canted shot of a male and female student
12. Low angle shot of a male teacher

You should remove any unnecessary footage from the timeline before moving onto task 2.

Task 2
Remove any footage of the clapper board by cropping each of the shots.

Task 3
Add the following transitions to 5 of the shots on your film timeline.
· Cross Dissolve
· Dip to black
· Dip to white
· Wipe
· Zoom

Task 4
Add the following effects to 4 of the shots on your film timeline.
· Black and white
· Old Film
· Line Drawing
· Lightning

Save the completed video as a Windows Media Player file when you have completed editing the footage.

Welcome Year 13!

Welcome to the King Henry Viii school blog for Year 13 A2 Media Studies students.

This blog will be used to record the research, planning and evaluation for your G324 Advanced Portfolio unit.

The first posts on this site cover the preliminary film work that we have covered since September 2009. Make sure that you keep a detailed record of all the research and planning decisions that you make during the construction of your trailer.

A2 Media Studies

G324 – Advanced Media Production

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

· A Website homepage for the film;

· A film magazine front cover, featuring the film;

· A poster for the film

Research, Presentation and planning MUST be presented in electronic format.

All research and planning must be recorded by keeping a log

Examination - G325 – Critical Perspectives in Media

The examination is made up of two sections:

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

You will answer two compulsory questions. The first question requires you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.

The second question asks you to identify one production and evaluate it in relation to one theoretical concept.



Question 1(a) requires you to describe and evaluate your skills over the course of your production work from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio. The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development, and the question will require you to adapt this to one or two specific production practices. The list of practices to which questions will relate is as follows:

· Digital Technology

· Creativity

· Research and Planning

· Post-production

· Using conventions from real media texts

In the examination, questions will be posed using one or two of these categories.

Question 1(b) requires you to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. The list of concepts to which questions relate is as follows:

· Genre

· Narrative

· Representation

· Audience

· Media Language

In the examination, questions will be set using one of these concepts only.

Therefore the first section of the examination will be based on your Coursework Production!
In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

· 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 your audience feedback?

· How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?