Year 12 coursework overview

Dates	Course work portfolio	Breakdown
Starting Date 15th Oct	Label a folder in your documents Research ·         Audience ·         Genre ·         Form ·         insitution	·         Read brief and choose carefully – do look at tasks as well and have broad idea which you will do ·         Underline the key pieces of information supplied in the brief
29th Oct	Research ·         Use your research to design your own brand of TV/Music artist ·         Decide on the codes and conventions of the publications you are replicating/creating	·         Research audience , genre, codes and conventions of existing products – minimum 3 ·         E.g. look at One Direction website and analyse for audience, genre, form, institution ·         Existing TV programmes for the same audience e.g. Skins trailer ·         Every decision you make on your final product has to be linked to your research so at the end of each of your piece of research – add a box called ‘ideas for my products’
Research completed by 12th Nov	Pre- production Power point presentation	Produce a PowerPoint presentation that shows all your research and how you came to the decisions that you did for Branding/ codes and conventions/ genre/ media language
13th Nov	Pre -production	Produce a clear plan of action week by week – include time to produce photo portfolio
First task completed by Monday 14th January	Production	Use Serif to produce print/e media or broadcast
Second task completed by Monday 11th Feb	Production	Use Serif to produce print/e media or broadcast
Evaluation complete by 11th March	Evaluation	1000 word evaluation of strengths and weakness of your product using media theory and language and considering what you would have included in your 3rd platform
All complete by week before Easter.