GBHS Exam Harry

I created two pieces of texts in my coursework during my AS and A level. For my AS I created a film opening with the genre of my choice, I created an action comedy named “Not So Die Hard” about   a group of teens robbing a bank. In my A level coursework, I created a music video, I chose to do an alternative song and called it “Drugs” in my music video I wanted to make it very fun and make it seem as though there is nothing better than having fun with friends, in my music video I wanted him to seem different  so therefore we did a "trippy" editing with extreme camera angles. For AS I did some research for the film opening, by looking at premade films and also music videos. The music video for ‘ central intelligence ’ really was a huge influence for our film opening. This is because it was similar to what we wanted in our film opening.  For our A2 production I feel as though our research was a lot more thorough and we managed to do a lot more in-depth resea...

Discuss how audiences are represented and how your product applies - mention the effects theory and audience consumption habits.  Every media product has to have an audience, otherwise in both a business sense and probably an artistic sense too it would be judged a failure. In your projects, you will undoubtedly have been looking at the idea of a target audience- who you are aiming it at and why; you should also have taken feedback from a real audience in some way at the end of the project for your digital evaluation, which involves finding out how the audience really ‘read’ what you had made. You were also asked at AS to consider how your product addressed your audience- what was it about it that particularly worked to ‘speak’ to them? All this is effectively linked to audience theory which you then need to reference and apply. Here are some links to some starting points for theories: THREE DIFFERENCE QUESTION  Why do audiences consume certain texts?  How do t...

Choose one Production N - Narrative - Theorist        FILM OPENING G - Genre - Distinct      FILM OPENING R - Representation  - Dr Cages       FILM OPENING A - Audience - Uses + Grats, effects, encoding and Decoding         Music Video M - Media Language - Any Theorist ( camera, editing, mise en scene, Sound) Basic essay structure Define the concept you have been given in the question  Outline the production you've chosen to evaluate  tell the examiner you're going to discuss ........... number of ideas about the concept, use 2 theorists.  Para 1 Intro: 1. First, define the concept you have been given in the question. For example, for Narrative you might say that every text tells a story. Add a quotation, such as for genre, "Genre is a type" (Daniel Chandler, 2001). 2. Outline the production you've chosen to evaluate. 3. Tell the examiner you're going to di...

Throughout my A level media I have had to use a range of post-production techniques to improve my pieces. My skills have developed throughout my course, I started by creating a film opening named Not So Die Hard in AS, as well as making a package which used synergy to fit along with it. I then developed in year 13 and created a music video for an artist called "Paleme". Post production was very important to make a final outcome. I started my post production uses in year 12 when I had to create some practice tasks, this included editing clips from premade videos together and putting them together. I was able to play around with the different effects which were available on Adobe Premiere, which I used to edit this. I found Adobe difficult to use and only used basic effects and transitions, which looked very unprofessional. However, it did allow me to understand some of the basic effects which I would need for my final pieces in the future, for example adding titles and musi...

Explain how your skills in the creative use of digital technology developed over time. Refer to a range of examples from your media productions in your answer? Throughout my two years in media my skills within digital technology have dramatically improved whilst working on my media coursework. I was able to improve my skills on digital technology by practicing different techniques and products.  Whilst completing my coursework in year 12 and 13 I had to keep a record of my planning,  research andI used an online blogging site called Blogger, for both of the two years. I had basic skill in year 12 where I was able to do the necessities, such as posting a blog post, imbedding a video or presentation and uploading photos in a post. In year 13 I understood how to change the layout and the design of my blog, to make my blog more eye-catching. I also began to understand that to needed to add more, relevant information to make my blog more successful. As well as this I h...

OCR G325 The exam is 2 hours long You spend 1 hour on each section Have to answer 2 questions from Section A And spend 30 minutes on each of these individual questions  Section A is worth 50 marks (25 marks for each Q) and Section B is worth 50 marks Section A- about our coursework Section B- Collective Identity (representations of British youth) There are four possible subjects our Section A questions could be about: Digital Technology  Research and Planning  Post-Production (editing, sound etc) Using conventions from research texts  They could also feature a creativity angle such as: 'How creative were you in your research and planning?