Skillset.org & Direct.gov

If you are preparing to deliver the Creative & Media Diploma, the following websites and contacts should prove useful.

http://www.skillset.org/qualifications/diploma/

http://yp.direct.gov.uk/diplomas/subjects/Creative_Media/

Exam Boards

I would be inclined to contact the exam boards and see if they can help. For instance, AQA have the following site set up to support centres who are delivering their diplomas:

• We can organise half-day or full day courses on any aspect of Media Studies or Film Studies at your school or college.

• We can also provide keynote speakers for conferences and training events.

Contact MediaEdu

Programme Details

• We come to you.

• Where possible assessors from leading awarding bodies lead our courses.

• Each revision course is 3 hours in length and is delivered in both whole group and seminar-style workshops. We can run a...

Level 3 National Certificate / Diploma in Media

Television Production

The Brief | Concept

You work for a small UK Television Production company and are being set various tasks by TV industry to see if you will be hired to help plan a new television programme.
The work you do will involve investigating the changing television industry in the UK. You will need to explain the popularity of different genres of television programmes in the UK...

Equipment Booking Form Proforma.doc

Minutes Proforma.doc

OCR Level 2 Induction Work.doc

OCR Level 2 Unit 1 Introduction.doc

OCR Level 3 Front Cover.doc

OCR Level 3 Induction Work.doc

OCR Level 3 Unit 1 Brief.doc

OCR Level 3 Unit 1 Front Cover.doc

OCR Level 3 Unit 4 Brief.doc

OCR Level 3 Unit 12 Brief.doc

OCR Level 3 Unit 21 Brief.doc

OCR Nationals Introduction.doc

Production Schedule Proforma.doc

Risk Assessment Matrix.doc

Risk...

AO1 Develop basic specific skills to use in text/visual based and audio/audio visual products

Students should take 12 different photographs for THREE different purposes. I would focus on things the students would find the easiest.

1. To provide a portrait (they can each get each other to take photos of themselves and pretend they are the latest music artist from the “X-Factor”!)
2. To show a crime scene (they can use examples of graffiti on...

Pre-Production and Planning for a Local Newspaper

Some ideas for teaching of this unit based on pre-production being a new local newspaper for 11-16 year olds.

AO1 Develop basic specific skills to use in text/visual based and audio/audio visual products

Two Text Visual Skills

Using Word write a 150 word leader for a newspaper story on a local story for a local paper that would appeal to a target audience of 11-16 (teacher and students to...

Name:

Pre-Production and Planning for a Music Magazine

The Brief

Concept

For this unit you are part of a multi-skilled team that plans to make a music related magazine for young adults aged 18 years and upwards. You will also need to advertise this magazine on radio, the internet and on TV - learning audio, visual and audio-visual skills. It will need to be heavy on visuals, glossy, and a midway price so that it is affordable by the target...

Find two print based advertisements from a magazine like Heat or FHM and do a deconstruction (a breakdown) of key ideas. Make sure that you hand the adverts in with the work that you produce here. Use the following to help you in your analysis:

Portrayal of people in the advertisement

How old are they?

What gender are they?

What racial group do they come from?

What social classes are represented? How do you know?

What do the clothing codes...

Name:

Unit 1 Introduction to Media

The Brief

For this unit you will be exploring one text/visual based product and one audio/audio visual product. You will look at newspapers (print based) and films (audio visual). You will be in role as freelance journalists who will need to do research and investigations into two different products.

Deadline: 

What the specification says:

You will need to analyse two products – one text/visual based...

Induction Work

Research the following organisations and write a sentence explaining what types of media products they produce and what other media links they have:

• Emap
• Radio 1
• News International
• Guardian Media Group
• AOL Time Warner
• Associated Newspapers Ltd

Who is Rupert Murdoch? Do a character profile of him and find a suitable image of him to annotate with all your findings.

Find two print based advertisements from a magazine (...

Based on Heat magazine (print/factual) and Coronation Street (audio-visual; fiction); these ideas will hopefully help the students to create visually appealing end results. I have yet to find a way of making these two products work as one PowerPoint for AO1 so I usually opt to do it separately as two different methods of presentation as they are very different products. These are merely my suggestions that have been used and have produced some...

Name: ___________________________

Level 3 National Certificate/ Diploma in Media

The Brief

For this unit you are a freelance journalist researching articles on popular media products. You are going to investigate an action film genre “The Italian Job” (two versions of the film - 1969 and 2003) and one lifestyle magazine, “Heat”.  You will either produce a feature article including text and images or you will give a visual presentation...

Skillset.org & Direct.gov

If you are preparing to deliver the Creative & Media Diploma, the following websites and contacts should prove useful.

http://www.skillset.org/qualifications/diploma/

http://yp.direct.gov.uk/diplomas/subjects/Creative_Media/

Exam Boards

I would be inclined to contact the exam boards and see if they can help. For instance, AQA have the following site set up to support centres who...

• We can organise half-day or full day courses on any aspect of Media Studies or Film Studies at your school or college.

• We can also provide keynote speakers for conferences and training events.

Contact MediaEdu

Programme Details

• We come to you.

• Where possible assessors from leading awarding bodies lead our courses.

• Each revision course is 3 hours in length and is delivered in both whole group and...