FM3 Brief

This coursework unit is worth 50% of your A2 Course and as such 25% of your full A-Level.

The creative project is worth 60 marks, the small scale research unit is worth 40 marks.

Aims and Context - Required for assessment

Creative Product - 45 Marks

Evaluation - 15 Marks

The Film/Video production option of FM3 gives you the opportunity to:

Develop an extended sequence from an imagined feature

or

Develop a complete short film of between 3 - 5 minutes.

With both of these options you are meant to engage with the issues raised in FM1 in relation to the production of meaning and the study of film stylistic and theory.

You can undertake this task as an individual and it is advised that you do so, but if you do work in a group then your production role within the group must be clearly defined and you will need to provide evidence of your contribution in terms of that role and you will be assessed on your performance in that role.

The advice of the Film Studies department is that each student should plan and produce a short film or extract and that other students with a study group will help them. You will work on each others films.

All students will aid everyone in the study group and they will in turn receive help on their production.

As you can see clearly it is vital that if you are contributing to a production group you must be reliable, you must be committed and you must accept the final say on creative decisions of the person who's project it is.

The finished production should clearly show evidence of the individual roles and while group members may assist in various roles you will be assessed on the role you have chosen as your primary role.

This will form the basis of your reflective analysis.

The reflective analysis should select key features of the creative project and reflect critically on both the creative process and the product, focusing on the construction and the impact of your specific role and how meaning has been created.

In order to aid you in this you will be required to produce a blog which must be updated weekly to allow for effective monitoring. This will take the form of a production diary and record your progress and creative decisions made.