Introduction to Advanced Portfolio (G324)

You are embarking on another creative process, only this time you are going to be creating a 5 minute section of a documentary instead of the opening of a thriller. The exam board guidance for unit G324 is as follows:

This is a coursework unit. Each candidate will produce:

 a media portfolio, comprising a main and ancillary texts;
 a presentation of their research, planning and evaluation in electronic format(s).

The Portfolio

The portfolio will consist of an extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

 a radio trailer for the documentary;
 a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;
 a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.


The Evaluation

Each candidate will evaluate and reflect upon the creative process and their experience of it.
For the evaluation you will produce a PowerPoint presentation, a Prezi and a thorough blog.

In the evaluation the following questions must be answered:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Marking of the Unit

G324 is marked and internally standardised by the school and marks are submitted to OCR by, a sample is then selected for external moderation.

The unit is marked out of a total of 100 marks:

• 20 marks for the planning and research and its presentation;
• 60 marks for the construction; broken into 40 marks for the documentary and 10 marks for each of the supporting pieces
• 20 marks for the evaluation.