Major Product Semester 2
This semester you will be creating a Major Media Product of your choosing that is a stripped back version of the Major SAT Product in Year 12.
We won't have the time to complete all of the steps that the Year 12s do because they have a great deal more time for that task, but we'll cover some of the important steps along the way. So let's get started.
We won't have the time to complete all of the steps that the Year 12s do because they have a great deal more time for that task, but we'll cover some of the important steps along the way. So let's get started.
Important Note
All of your submissions this semester MUST be done via your OneDrive shared folder.
You can access your OneDrive folder by:
1. Googling "one drive" and clicking on the first link that turns up, or going to this address: https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-au/
2. Up towards the top left of the OneDrive main page, click on the link that says "Business".
3. Then click on the link in the top-right of the screen that says "Sign-in".
4. In the following screen, type in your school email address and click "Next".
5. On the following screen, click the button on the right that says "OneDrive for Business"
6. On the next screen, type in your CLE password into the password window and hit the enter key on your keyboard.
7. Once in your OneDrive account, over on the left will be a link that says "Shared With Me". Click on it.
8. You will then be able to see the folder that I've shared with you that says something like "FirstName Surname - 11MED 2017".
9. Click on that folder and you will then be inside your shared OneDrive folder.
Inside this main folder, create two new folders and name them "Semester 1" and "Semester 2".
Move all of the current files inside the main shared folder (apart from the "Semester 2" folder) into the "Semester 1" folder.
You should now be left with two main folders in your shared OneDrive folder and nothing else: Semester 1 and Semester 2.
The "Semester 2" folder is where ALL of your Media work should be submitted from this point on.
Inside the Semester 2 folder, create a new folder called "Media Industry and Production" and another folder called "Media Product Semester 2"
Inside the "Media Product Semester 2" folder, create a new folder called "Production Exercise".
This is where your completed Production Exercise and accompanying documentation should be submitted.
IMPORTANT!!!
It is your responsibility to ensure you can access and upload to your shared OneDrive folder prior to due dates. If you haven't tried uploading anything to the folder and haven't set them up like I've asked above and then discover 5 minutes before the cut-off that you aren't able to access or upload to your OneDrive folder, that isn't grounds for an extension. That's poor organisation. That simply means you won't get marks for that task.
Unless otherwise stated, the cut-off time on a due date is 4pm.
Anything submitted after 4pm on the due date will not receive marks.
Technical difficulties are problems to be allowed for and planned for, not excuses to miss deadlines.
You can access your OneDrive folder by:
1. Googling "one drive" and clicking on the first link that turns up, or going to this address: https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-au/
2. Up towards the top left of the OneDrive main page, click on the link that says "Business".
3. Then click on the link in the top-right of the screen that says "Sign-in".
4. In the following screen, type in your school email address and click "Next".
5. On the following screen, click the button on the right that says "OneDrive for Business"
6. On the next screen, type in your CLE password into the password window and hit the enter key on your keyboard.
7. Once in your OneDrive account, over on the left will be a link that says "Shared With Me". Click on it.
8. You will then be able to see the folder that I've shared with you that says something like "FirstName Surname - 11MED 2017".
9. Click on that folder and you will then be inside your shared OneDrive folder.
Inside this main folder, create two new folders and name them "Semester 1" and "Semester 2".
Move all of the current files inside the main shared folder (apart from the "Semester 2" folder) into the "Semester 1" folder.
You should now be left with two main folders in your shared OneDrive folder and nothing else: Semester 1 and Semester 2.
The "Semester 2" folder is where ALL of your Media work should be submitted from this point on.
Inside the Semester 2 folder, create a new folder called "Media Industry and Production" and another folder called "Media Product Semester 2"
Inside the "Media Product Semester 2" folder, create a new folder called "Production Exercise".
This is where your completed Production Exercise and accompanying documentation should be submitted.
IMPORTANT!!!
It is your responsibility to ensure you can access and upload to your shared OneDrive folder prior to due dates. If you haven't tried uploading anything to the folder and haven't set them up like I've asked above and then discover 5 minutes before the cut-off that you aren't able to access or upload to your OneDrive folder, that isn't grounds for an extension. That's poor organisation. That simply means you won't get marks for that task.
Unless otherwise stated, the cut-off time on a due date is 4pm.
Anything submitted after 4pm on the due date will not receive marks.
Technical difficulties are problems to be allowed for and planned for, not excuses to miss deadlines.
Part 1: Production Exercises
Production Exercises are short practical tasks that help you develop your skills for your major product. They are not part of the final product and, in fact, you can't use anything you create for your Production Exercise in your final product.
In Year 12, you will create two production exercises, but for this task, you will only create one.
You should use this task to create something that will help improve the sophistication and effectiveness of your finished product.
For example, if you're going to make a documentary film for your major, you'll probably be interviewing people on screen. A useful production exercise could be to create a one-minute-long interview with someone (could be anyone, doesn't have to be someone that's going to be in your film) focusing on lighting the interview well, framing the shot well and recording the interview audio well. These skills would then be transferrable to your major product when you made that.
Similarly, if you were doing photography, you would need to use Photoshop, so your production exercise might be learning to use Photoshop. At the end of the production exercise part, you need to pass in a completed product, so for this part you could perhaps take a series of photographs and then learn a different skill or technique for each of those photos e.g. Photo 1: Digital Effects, Photo 2: Blemish Removal Using the Clone Stamp Tool, Photo 3: Green Screen Usage, Photo 4: Lighting, etc. You get the idea.
Here's a Year 12 Example below to give you more of an idea. This student is making a film that will have a number of cut scenes in it. One scene will cut away from the main narrative and will be 2D animation. Another scene will be an action sequence. To assist with this, the student, for the first exercise, learned to use Adobe Animate CC, including using a plug-in called Smart Mouth, that helps with lip-syncing animation. The second exercise involved learning Adobe After Effects CC and adding an explosion to a scene that they had filmed themselves.
In Year 12, you will create two production exercises, but for this task, you will only create one.
You should use this task to create something that will help improve the sophistication and effectiveness of your finished product.
For example, if you're going to make a documentary film for your major, you'll probably be interviewing people on screen. A useful production exercise could be to create a one-minute-long interview with someone (could be anyone, doesn't have to be someone that's going to be in your film) focusing on lighting the interview well, framing the shot well and recording the interview audio well. These skills would then be transferrable to your major product when you made that.
Similarly, if you were doing photography, you would need to use Photoshop, so your production exercise might be learning to use Photoshop. At the end of the production exercise part, you need to pass in a completed product, so for this part you could perhaps take a series of photographs and then learn a different skill or technique for each of those photos e.g. Photo 1: Digital Effects, Photo 2: Blemish Removal Using the Clone Stamp Tool, Photo 3: Green Screen Usage, Photo 4: Lighting, etc. You get the idea.
Here's a Year 12 Example below to give you more of an idea. This student is making a film that will have a number of cut scenes in it. One scene will cut away from the main narrative and will be 2D animation. Another scene will be an action sequence. To assist with this, the student, for the first exercise, learned to use Adobe Animate CC, including using a plug-in called Smart Mouth, that helps with lip-syncing animation. The second exercise involved learning Adobe After Effects CC and adding an explosion to a scene that they had filmed themselves.
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For the production exercise, you should submit the finished product, similar to the clips above, for example, either on a USB or via the OneDrive (it is your responsibility to ensure these have been successfully submitted) as well as a statement of intention, reflection/evaluation and evidence of the process.
Your statement of intention is just that, a document of around 200-300 words that states what you intend to do and learn as part of your production exercise.
Your evaluation is about the same word length, but discusses what you learned, found difficult, how you'll apply the skill to your major product, what you'd do differently, etc.
Your evidence of the process could be a "How To" video that you make, documenting and explaining the process that you've undertaken, (as shown in the video below-right about how to make a coffee table book) or it could be a document that includes annotated screen shots of the process, explaining what you did to achieve the finished product of your production exercise. A written example of that documentation is below.
Your statement of intention is just that, a document of around 200-300 words that states what you intend to do and learn as part of your production exercise.
Your evaluation is about the same word length, but discusses what you learned, found difficult, how you'll apply the skill to your major product, what you'd do differently, etc.
Your evidence of the process could be a "How To" video that you make, documenting and explaining the process that you've undertaken, (as shown in the video below-right about how to make a coffee table book) or it could be a document that includes annotated screen shots of the process, explaining what you did to achieve the finished product of your production exercise. A written example of that documentation is below.
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Production Exercise Due Date: Monday, 24th July, 2017
Weighting = 20%
Part 2: Planning
Your specific planning for this section will depend on what you're doing for your major product, but it should still contain at least the following things:
1. Statement of Intention (including intended audience and purpose of product) for your major product.
2. Script & Shotlist (film) OR Outline of Content & Mock-ups (photography) OR article summary, outline of content & Mock-ups (print)
3. Proof of two completed tutorials on technical skills that will aid in the creation of your finished product
Scripts should be correctly formatted
1. Statement of Intention (including intended audience and purpose of product) for your major product.
2. Script & Shotlist (film) OR Outline of Content & Mock-ups (photography) OR article summary, outline of content & Mock-ups (print)
3. Proof of two completed tutorials on technical skills that will aid in the creation of your finished product
Scripts should be correctly formatted
Planning Due Date: Wednesday, 2nd August, 2017
Weighting = 10%
Part 3: Pre-Submission Check
This is the final check of your product, before the final submission is due the following week. It should be in a roughly completed state by this stage and really only need final touches.
Pre-Submission Check Due Date: Friday, 18th August @ 6pm
Weighting - 10%
Part 4: Final Submission of Completed Product
Your final exported product should be uploaded to your shared OneDrive folder by 4pm on the due date.