1A-1B

How you achieve-
What you done- What you learnt- How you developed the skills

DR PUC-
Digital technology
Research and planning
Post production
Understanding media conventions
Creativity (might not come up but could be attached to a question above)

structure-

• Intro (skills, at AS we done this at A2 we done that)
• Apply the skill to year 12 about the question
• What we learnt in year 13 about the question (Stress how you have DEVELOPED- research, post production, about the conventions and how)
• Reflect back 
• Conclusion

MIND MAP- Digital technology 

• INTRO-We used digital technology throughout the course and we developed our skills from AS to A2. "throughout the two years of our course work redeveloped our digital technology skills" "at AS we done (film) and at A2 we done (music video).
• BLOGGER-Set up a blog on blogger- PARA 1 "electronic network where we upload all of our production work, research and presentations." "blogger helped as it is accessible form anywhere, you are able to show videos as well as presentations and it can be easily organised under many labels."
• PREMIER PRO- DANCING ANIMALS, learn to edit with the simple tools (cutting, transitions and adding music) and to music. JUNO, film openings, looked at a real thing so we could establish characters, settings and add titles. PRELIM TASK, come up hit own ideas from a given genre to come up with characters, settings and titles. FILM OPENING, own idea and come up with the whole film opening, character, setting and add titles and contrast effects to bring the bright colours of a sports film. and camera WHAT WE USED
• PRESENTATIONS- ideas and research and planning. slide share, prezi, powerpoint. used to show our research and pitch to others our ideas. art of the title.com. TALK ABOUT EVALUATIONS AND HOW YOU DONE THEM 
•  WORD- for our film poster
• A2- we had to produce cross brand media task for a new band or artist to include a music video, website and digi pack. 
• PREMIER PRO- more cuts, more footage, more editing/special effects, after effects, over 100 shots. film opening we had 20. 
• WEBSITE- WIX, free, easy.
• DIGI PACK- PHOTOSHOP hard, gotta pay. 
• EVALUATIONS- more creative using green screen and interview. using new techniques such as video and emaze. 
• CONCLUSION

MIND MAP- Research and planning

• INTRO
• YEAR 12- Research-film opening only, costumes, lighting, artofthetitle.com, genre, inspiration, props, narrative, audience. YEAR 13- Research- music video, website, digital pack, other music videos, music video conventions, genre, similar artists, 30 second break down, time line of music videos, prelim- four five seconds, star profit, music video directors, banana phone learning edits, real student videos marked.
• YEAR 12- Planning- story board, risk assessment, shooting schedule, film pitch, audience, group pitch, location shots, fonts, script, shot list, music research ideas. YEAR 13- Planning, social media, production diary, film a lot more, presented ideas to a group, lip sync task, who could perform, time line of annotated lyrics, group time table, steal-o-matic, digital pack and website, photo shoot, interview, website and digital pack stages, music video articles. 

Media conventions- 

• Film-sport, what is a film opening and how did you do it. 
• Establishes characters, setting, themes, narrative and you find out what the genre is. 
• Conventions of a sports film. stereotypes of a sports film. talk about titles and the spacing, artofthetitle.com order of titles. production company first, font and colour. 
• All films researched. 
• Do the same for a music video, research, examples, what we learnt and then talk about the genre, setting, narrative, concept and how you understand the media conventions. 
• Digi pack and website. 

1B-

This is where you need to take a step back and look at your own work critically (but always be positive; don't write about what you think is wrong, but rather what you have chosen to do). Remember, the examiner on this paper won't have actually seen your production work!

For Question 1(b) you have to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. This will be one of these:

• Genre- Para 1-what your production is (film) what you created. "we conformed and subverted certain things throughout" Para 2- how did you no, research how you researched and what you saw and how you linked it to your film (fast girls, rush, rocky). Para 3- Daniel Chandler, genre is a type, what type is your film and how you applied it. Steve Neale, genres made up from repetition and differences. describe how my genre is similar (conform) and difference (subvert). Para 4- DISTINCT- CAMERA(fam), MISE-EN-SCENE(costume, lighting, props), EDITING(stops), SOUND (MCDOVED), music, contrapuntal, diegetic, off screen, voice over, emotion, dialogue). Para 5- Conclusion. 
• Narrative- Opening para- talk about film opening, genre what narrative is "establishing the character and the genre"- double narrative, setting, plot, characters and genre= narrative. Theorists- Levi Strauss, apply with binary oppositions which means opposites to make an interesting narrative. such as rich and poor, good and evil, different training facilities, poor lives in the city rich in the country side. Barthes, enigma, action, symbolic.need to keep people guessing, by things happening and for them to ask questions. "who's gunna win?" name shots. symbolic codes, the rich shoes and the bad shoes. Todorov- equilibrium, disruption, equilibrium, disruption  what makes a story interesting but restored at the end. Propp, characters, hero, villain, hero's helper, stereotypical characters. HOW DO YOU CONFORM OR SUBVERT. Sophie, good, poor so subvert. Renae, bad, rich so subverted. Para 4- Conclusion. 
• Representation 
• Audience 
• Media language- Para 1- "we used the following technical codes to create meaning in our film opening" "we used media language and applied the genre conventions" "we shall be analysing camera, wise-en-scene, editing and sound."Para 2- camera, three main camera shots ad how we created meaning. Para 3- mise-en-scene(clamps), chose three and how did they create meaning. Para 4- sound, three points how did they create meaning. Para 5- editing, three points how did they create meaning. Para 6- conclusion, how did you create meaning through media language, and did you conform or subvert the genre. 

Basic essay structure for 1b (Choose only ONE product to write about):

Para 1 Intro:

1. First, define the concept you have been given in the question. For example, for Narrative you might say that every text tells a story. Add a quotation, such as for genre, "Genre is a type" (Daniel Chandler, 2001).

2. Outline the production you've chosen to evaluate.

3. Tell the examiner you're going to discuss (x) number of ideas about the concept. Use no more than 5 theories in your answer (so you'll need to have learnt about 6-7 theories in total).

para 2: Using the theorists, describe some of the key features of the concept you are being asked to apply. Outline two or three of the theories/ideas of particular writers, relating them to your production.

para 3: Start to apply the concept, making close reference to your product and to other examples to show how the concept is evident in it.

para 4: Show ways in which ideas work in relation to three areas of your product - production, distribution and exchange - and also ways in which those ideas might not apply/could be challenged.

para 5: Conclusion - Sum up by returning to the question and, having discussed key issues, say how your product follows or challenges the conventions of that issue