Personal Higher Predictions for August?

*** I started to write way too much about the story haha, go into a lot of detail and almost retell it so i shortened it to one line :P

H Media - A

It depends where you go what you get to do.

My class was lucky enough to do a practical unit for the "Media Production" section (section 2 in the exam). We were required to make a 3-5 minute film, either to entertain or be informative, targeted at both males and females age 18-25. We had three weeks for pre-production, three to film it and then two for post-production. My group made a documentary about what can be done for £20 or less in Glasgow with a focus on clubs, gigs and cinemas.

Some other schools/colleges do a different unit instead which I think involves the creative side of coming up with the ideas but don't actually execute them... youjustburnkid could probably tell you more/correct me if I'm wrong.

For Media Analysis (section 1 in the exam) it's quite similar to English, in a way. You're given a text (ours was this Amnesty International teleshopping spoof) and have an hour to write an essay on it in the exam. There is also an unseen analysis section on the exam (it's external and can be sat at any point in the year, I think - we did it immediately after finishing the unit at the start of March) that required analysing an unseen text. I'm not sure if it was just my class, or all classes, that analysed magazine covers for this section.

We also studied a Glaswegian film (Small Faces) for one unit - it was relevant to a NAB rather than the final exam.



*quoted just to get her attention because I want to know too, haha*

We studied 'Glee' and 'Top Gear' for our texts.

My class produced a music video

Another class produced an advert, and another class produced a short film aimed at the new first year pupils. It all just depends on the brief you are given by your teacher.

For the second part of the exam we didn't write about our production but applied our knowledge we gained throughout the year to designing a poster and writing about our justifications regarding what you did for the poster

LiveToSki If you have any other questions I'll happily answer them to the best of my ability!

What were each of the texts for? Exam? NAB? Both?

So the entire class worked on the one project? We were divided into groups of five. We all had the same brief. One group made a documentary about the Highers program at our college, another was about ScotRail and their (un)reliability, one about football (our college is a 15 min walk from Hampden Park), another about tattoos & piercings. etc. We were allowed off-campus during class time for the three weeks of filming. I spent it on trains and walking all over central Glasgow. Although we had to keep an 80% attendance rate for the eight weeks we spent on the project otherwise we would fail. Our lecturer said it's the last year she's teaching production but I bet she changes her mind. x)

For section two you're graded on justifications, not art skills, right?