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NEA Aims & Intentions Document

Live Lesson at 11:00am on Monday 25th January

SMART START

The often visited Media Quiz checking that you can link theories and theorists. The year 12 students use this every lesson and now over half the class gets full marks every time (the order of questions and answers changes, so not just a familiarity thing). Therefore, I highly recommend taking this quiz on a regular basis; it takes less than 3 minutes. The minimum expectation for today is to achieve 20/26 at this point in the course. If you get below that, please try again.

INTRODUCTION

The Aims & Intentions document is the only assessed non-exam piece of writing you complete for A-Level media. It is short but it's worth a suprising amount of marks; 17% of the total Component 3 marks!

The Aims and Intentions document should be written BEFORE you start the NEA, so should always be written in the future tense, E.g. "I will..." or "It is my intention to...", etc.

You are restricted to a maximum of 500 words for this document but your probably won't be wondering what to write; it'll be getting what you need to write down to just 500 words.

SUCCESS CRITERIA

To begin with, let's have a look at the success criteria;



THE BRIEF

Use evidence from your research into: similar products; the industry context; your target audience, as well as theoretical perspectives, to explain your decisions:
  1. How and why will you use media language in your cross-media production?
  2. How and why will you construct representations of individuals, groups and issues/events?
  3. How will you target your intended audience?
  4. How will your production conform to its industry context? How will your cross-media production demonstrate digital convergence?
SUPPORT FOR EACH QUESTION:
  1. Explain how you intend to use media language in your production, e.g. visual codes, technical codes, narrative and design.
  2. You should include people in your products to allow you to construct appropriate representations. Outline how you intend to do this, e.g. costume, gestures, setting, props, voices, etc
  3. Who is the intended audience for your production (it says in the requirements below). How do you intend to target this audience in your products? How do you intend to use model of address to target your audience (informal, formal, direct, etc). How will your product appeal to your target audience?
  4. How do you intend to use the conventions of the genre to illustrate the industry context (context identified in the requirements below).
GENERAL SUPPORT
  1. You should refer specifically to the research you completed. What similar products did you examine? What did you take from that research (conventions, stereotypes, etc).
  2. A should refer to each of the magazine elements (front cover, double-page spread, advertorial).
  3. A final paragraph should tie all your products together, referring to the podcast and explaining how it complements your main print product.
  4. Refer specifically to elements of our theoretical framework (reference theories / theorists).
  5. Use product-specific terminology and language (masthead, page furniture, close-up, caption, anchor, stand first, sound bed, fade-in, jingle, on-location interview, etc)
THE NEA REQUIREMENTS

When answering these questions, you should always keep in mind the requirements of the NEA (target audience, industry context, etc). Here is a reminder of the requirements;




MODELS

Here is one Aims and Intentions Doc that is quite good (band 4); it's just missing a final paragraph referring to the other products in the cross-media portfolio of products and there's no specific reference to the theoretical framework.


This one is ok (band 2) but it doesn't make reference to identified similar products or the theoretical framework and is a bit too generic (not enough details about how representations will be constructed).


Here is another one that is good (band 5) and the only thing missing are the specific references to the theoretical framework.


And finally, a couple of ours from last year. These are both excellent (band 5) submissions:



ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

Here are some resources I found relating to this task. They may help you too;

Audio Blocks

I have been informed (by Joe & Cole) that the AudioBlocks subscription has run out. It will be a few days before I can renew the subscription so, in the meantime, use free sound effects websites. A few are listed below;

FreeSound

BBC Sound Effects

ZapSplat

FreeSFX

YouTube Sound Library

If you are having difficulty finding a specific sound that you need to complete your podcast, let me know and I'll join the search!

Annoucement

 I've posted the Theory Summary document we spoke about on our Google Classroom. Hope it helps.

5th Jan - 25 Jan

At the start of each of these timetabled lessons, you should take our media quiz, maintaining a familiarity with our theoretical framework. I will be monitoring results live! I will base the register on who completes this quiz (i.e. you need to complete the quiz to get an attendance 'present' mark).

NEA Completion & Support

Ok, with mock exams and remote learning requirements it's not a clean start to the term. Unfortunately, once again, I have to shield until the 1st Feb. Really sorry!

With all of this in mind, I have extended the deadline for the podcast NEA which means, despite the exams and disruption, you should now have plenty of time to plan and record your podcast. You have 3 weeks to complete the work and the final submission date is 25th January, 9:00am.

As usual, I will be online during our timetabled lessons to answer any questions you have relating to the use of the software which, in this case, is Adobe Audition (remember, I can't help you with the creative aspects of the NEA or provide any feedback).

Hopefully see you soon!

Finally, a reminder of the NEA requirements for this element.



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