Introduction

Welcome to my blog which contains my Media Studies coursework for A2 Level. In AS, we were asked to create a Thriller movie which I felt my group managed to achieve quite successfully. This year, I have decided not to work in a group and work on my own as I feel that way I will be able to achieve my aims and objectives much more affectively. Also, this year we have been given the opportunity to produce three different tasks - a music video, documentary or advertisement. As my life is quite music orientated and I dedicate a lot of my time to listening to music, and watching music videos, the decision was not a hard one and I chose to create a music video. I have copied and pasted the parts of the choosing brief from the OCR website that I used to help make my decision below. I hope you enjoy looking through my blog. 

Choosing Brief

‘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 production element and presentation of research, planning and evaluation may be individual or group work (in which I have chosen to work alone).

You will need to produce:

-A media portfolio, comprising of a main and ancillary texts;

-A presentation of their research, planning and evaluation in digital format(s).

You may choose from the following main texts:

-Music Video

-Advert

-Documentary

-Computer/Video Game

As I have personally chosen to create a music video as my main task. Here is the main brief I need to focus on:

1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

-A website homepage for the band;

-A digipak for the album’s release;

-A magazine advertisement for the digipak.

The options I have chosen are 'A digipak for album's release' and 'A magazine advertisement for the digipak' as I don't have regular access to web developing facilities.