Welcome & Course Overview

Welcome to you all.

 The AS Media Studies course is exciting and fun.

Mr Dougan & Mrs McDonald-Holmes

will be teaching you this year.

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You will cover two units this year:

G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media

Print

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.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s),

minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

G322: Key Media Concepts (TV Drama)

G322: Key Media Concepts (TV Drama)

Textual Analysis and Representation: • Camera shots, Angle, Movement and Composition • Editing • Sound • Mise-en-Scene Institutions and Audiences - one of the following media industries is chosen: • Film • Music • Newspapers • Radio • Magazines • Video Games