G321 Foundation Portfolio

This is the coursework element for your AS Media Studies course. It is worth 50% of the total AS year course. The coursework is broken down into 3 elements, all of which are supported by a blog. We use www.tumblr.com. The brief for the coursework is: Video

Preliminary exercise: 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. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary

The coursework module takes the whole academic year and by the end of this time you should have completed the following

1.Research
2.Preliminary Task
3.Walking Sequence (FCP Melissa)
4.Timeline for titles
5.Initial ideas post
6.Storyboard
7.Actors location photos
8.Animatic
9. Soundtrack Pro tests
10.After effects tests
11.Book of Eli script
12.Target Audience Post
13.Fiim yourself making your openning
14.Feedback from 1st draft
15.Evaluation questions
16.Final film
17. Marketing of the film