Foundation in Portfolio Media
This is a coursework unit where candidates produce a media artefact from a series of briefs.
This process involves progression from a pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully
realised piece. The briefs offered are: print, video, audio and website. Candidates present their
research and planning in either paper based or electronic format and do an evaluation in
electronic format, based on a series of prompt questions.
Video 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 fiction film, to last the maximum of two minutes.
All video and audiomaterial 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 may be
done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.
This is a coursework unit where candidates produce a media artefact from a series of briefs.
This process involves progression from a pre-production, preliminary exercise to a more fully
realised piece. The briefs offered are: print, video, audio and website. Candidates present their
research and planning in either paper based or electronic format and do an evaluation in
electronic format, based on a series of prompt questions.
Video 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 fiction film, to last the maximum of two minutes.
All video and audiomaterial 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 may be
done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.
