Planning: Photographs of Locations and Shots

Planning: Preliminary Task: First Ideas

Ellie (Rachel) walking into a room while drinking a drink and sits opposite Jenny (Taylor). They exchange dialogue and Ellie spills drink over Jenny.

Fondation Portfolio: What Is It?

50% of your grade will be earned through your Foundation Portfolio. This consists of a preliminary task and a main task, the details of which can be found below.

The Preliminary Task is designed to illustrate the processes of pre-production, production and post-production that will be required, albeit in more detail, when you come to undertake the Main Task. The Preliminary Task is not marked but MUST be completed and submitted alongside the Main Task to the examiner. If it is not completed, marks are deducted from your Main Task.

The Main Task is marked out of 100. These marks are broken down as follows:

20 marks - Research into similar media products and planning of your own media product.
60 marks - Construction of your own media product including filiming and editing.
20 marks - Evaluation of your own media product.

All of your work must be posted to your blog as this will be accessed by the examiner in May of 2016.

For each of the criteria above, marks are available in 4 levels with level 4 being the highest. 

The progress thermometer below shows the key words for each level of the mark scheme.

This is what you have to do:

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 teen horror 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 and main tasks must be completed as a group. Maximum four members to a group.

Four OCR Video Guides To Basic Technology

OCR Guide To Basic Camera Movements

OCR Guide To Basic Camera Angles

OCR Guide To Basic Camera Shots

OCR Guide To The 180 Degree Rule

Understanding And Applying Basic Terminology

 Establishing Shot

 Long Shot

 Mid Shot

 Close Up

 Extreme Close Up

 Two Shot

 Point of View

 Over The Shoulder

 High Angle

Low Angle

Me As A Consumer Of The Media

Music is my biggest passion; I listen to it every day, hours at a time. I love to perform in a band, at gigs and in concerts. I listen to different types of music, but my preference is more rock music- punk/ alternative/Nu-metal and various other subgenres.

My favourite band and the one I listen to most often is Muse.  

Television and films are the next big passions. I love so many films and television programmes; horrors, detective, adventures, comedies, so many. At the moment, one of my favourite programmes is Agent Carter.

It starts off in 1946 and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark.

Agent Carter is also linked to my other favourite programmes and films; Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D, as well as many Marvel films: The Avengers, Agent Carter appears in the Captain America