Brief

The purpose of this unit it to build up your skills of planning and constructing media products using appropriate technical skills using a wide range of different programs like CS6 and CS5 and learn how to evaluate and analyse your own and other peoples work to a high standard and also to be able to assess your unique side and show your creative skills and build up your researching skills and apply them to your work.

This is a coursework unit, internally assessed and externally moderated. You will produce a media artefact in response to the brief set. You will also show your evidence of research and planning. The task provides progression from a pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully realised piece in the same medium.  This means that skills development will be assessed, as well as final finished piece.

Design Brief

Preliminary exercise: Using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a students in medium close-up also some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. You must also produce a mock-up of your layout of the content page to demonstrate your grasp of the program.

Main Tsk: The front page, content and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text must be original and produced by you. You must have a minimum of four images

Marking criteria

The unit is market out of 100: 20 marks for the presentation of the planning and research, 60 marks for the construction and 20 marks for the evaluation.

Research, planning and also the evaluation must all be presented electronically. In your case you will create a blog that records your planning and research processes and also provide your evaluation of the finished portfolio.