1. AS MEDIA PORTFOLIO
Introduction Lesson

2. Mark Weighting
100 marks 50% of your AS grade 20 marks- Research and Planning 60 marks- Construction 20 marks- Evaluation

3. The Brief
Preliminary exercise: using DTP (Desktop Publishing) and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally, candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program. Main Task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine. All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate, minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

4. Research and Planning Blog

5. Example Blogs

6. HAVE FUN!
This is the practical component of your AS Media qualification…have some fun! Be creative and develop a wide range of skills.
You will learn extremely VALUABLE SKILLS you can transfer to a huge variety of careers and areas of your life. These are skills you can use on your CV or university applications.