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Hi there and welcome to my blog. This is where I will be posting my research for my A Level Media Studies projects and updates on their progress. 

Aims Of The Course


The aims of these specifications are to:

•   enhance candidates enjoyment and appreciation of the media and its role in their daily lives;

•   develop critical understanding of the media through engagement with media products and concepts and through the creative application of practical skills;

•   explore production processes, technologies and contexts;

become independent in research skills and their application. 

Briefs

When centres choose briefs to offer to candidates, they should be guided by their strengths in terms of resources and expertise. Centres should also bear in mind the key areas: forms and conventions, production contexts, the role of technologies, audiences/users and representations.

The set briefs are as follows:

Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.

Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style). Maximum four members to a group.