YEAR 12 LAUNCH YOUR A2 PRODUCTION

A2 G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media

Our brief is brief 2:

2. A promotion package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with :

• a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;

• a poster for the film.

Start a new blog, with pages, sidebar like mine, Twitter, search engine and your group's blogs plus our class blog.
Pick 6 trailers and present an analysis of each in Emaze, SlideShare or similar.
Then make a presentation entitled Trailer Codes and Conventions.

A2 G325:Critical Perspectives in Media

During the summer holidays, I expect you to cover the following texts by viewing them and getting to know their content, characters, themes; the historical context of their production; their directors/ screenwriters.

Screenonline British Asian Cinema
The Millionairess (1960) BFI
The Indian Doctor (BBC1, 2012) created by Deep Sehgal and starring Sanjeev Bhaskar
Goodness Gracious Me (Meera Syall, 1996-2000, BBC radio and TV comedy sketch)
The Kumars at No.42 (BBC, 7 series, 2001-6)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985, from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi) 
Ae Fond Kiss (Ken Loach, 2004)
Yasmin (dir. Kenneth Glenaan 2004)
Four Lions (Chris Morris, 2011)
East Is East (dir. Damien O'Donell, screenplay Auyub Khan Din), 
Anita And Me (Meera Syal, 2002)    
Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha),  
Bhaji on the Beach (Gurinder Chadha, 1994) 
I'm British But... (Gurinder Chadha, 1989)
Brick Lane (Sarah Gavron, 2008)
 
 

A2 G325: Critical Perspectives in Media

The purpose of this unit is to assess candidates’ knowledge and understanding of media concepts,contexts and critical debates, through their understanding of one contemporary media issue and their ability to evaluate their own practical work in reflective and theoretical ways. The examination is two hours. Candidates are required to answer two compulsory questions, on their own production work, and one question from a choice of six topic areas. The unit is marked out of a total of 100, with the two questions on production work marked out of 25 each, and the media theory question marked out of 50.

There are two sections to this paper:

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production (50 marks)

Section B: Contemporary Media Issues (50 marks) OUR TOPIC: MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY (BRITISH ASIAN IDENTITY)