UAL Awarding Body

CREATIVE MEDIA PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY LEVEL 3 EXTENDED DIPLOMA

Unit 13: Extended Project in Creative Media Production Date Issued 13th January 2020

Interim Deadline: 11th May 2020

Final Deadline: 22nd May 2020

Marking teachers: Adam Jones; Sarah Wilson; James Ashford

Lead internal Verifier: Sarah Wilson (All classes)

External Verifier: UAL Senior External Moderator for subject

For your extended project you are required to produce a visual product which meets professional standards

The exam board looks favourably on students who have found a client to work for (music artist, sports team, production company) or who are working towards a professional competition entry (Sundance Film Festival, BBC commissioning, Aesthetica Short Film Festival)

If this is not possible then a detailed brief written with an expert in the field would be satisfactory.

Once you have found a company to work with you are required to stay in contact with your client in a professional nature and produce and adapt a production according to their needs / rules and target audience.

A process will need to be followed in order to meet the UAL specification.

• Context • Research • Problem solving and communication • Planning and pre-production • Technical skills and production • Evaluation (in the form of a video blog and a written / filmed

evaluation) • Exhibition / presentation

Brief

Each section is marked individually, and the lowest grade will become your final grade

Rules:

• There will be no reference to drugs, no swearing and no nudity within your productions

• All practical work must be your own • Only 10% of your production can be found footage (downloaded) and only if

you are producing a factual programme • No footage or written work from previous units may be used or resubmitted for

your final project • All written work must be your own and any sourced work must be Harvard

referenced properly • The work submitted must follow the brief created at the beginning of your

Final project

Portfolio for Extended project

You are required to create a new website for your final project.

The link to this new website should be on your main Creative Media website

Create a Unit 13 tab

• On this page upload your brief, all deadlines, marking criteria and assessment criteria along with the link to your new final project website.

• The new website should be titled FirstnameLastnameUAL13 For example: www.jamesashfordUAL13.weebly.com

Tabs on your new website will be

• Context • Research • Problem solving and communication • Planning and pre-production • Technical skills and production • Evaluation • Exhibition / presentation

All guidance and help for this unit can be found at www.thcvibe.weebly.com Unit 13

The new UAL13 website will need to be set up and decorated in a professional way and creatively link to your final project. The look and set up of the whole portfolio website will be one of the elements graded for the final section of your assessment - presentation.

Unit 13: Extended Project in Creative Media Production

Provide an opportunity for you to engage in an extended activity related to your discipline of choice. The unit will enable you to take responsibility for your learning by responding positively to the greater opportunities for individual expression and creativity afforded, and to demonstrate your achievement through proposing and realising a project, which integrates the skills, knowledge and understanding acquired throughout the course.

Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria Context Be able to initiate and develop

a creative media production project proposal.

1.1 Use critical and contextual perspectives to initiate a creative media production project proposal.

1.2 Use analysis and evaluation to clarify and develop ideas for a creative media production project proposal .

Research Be able to use research, analysis and evaluation to develop solutions for a creative media production project.

2.1 Use research to support the development of a creative media production project. 2.2 Use analytical and evaluative skills to develop creative solutions to realise a media production project

Problem solving

Be able to solve practical, theoretical and technical problems in a creative media production project.

3.1 Solve practical and technical problems within a creative media production project. 3.2 Solve theoretical problems within a creative media production project.

Planning and

production

Be able to plan, organise and produce a creative media production project.

4.1 Demonstrate the ability to plan, organise and produce a creative media production project within an agreed time frame.

Practical Skills

Be able to use practical methods and skills in a creative media production project.

5.1 Demonstrate the exploration, adaptation and application of practical methods and skills in the realisation of a creative media production project.

Evaluation and

Reflection

Be able to use evaluative and reflective skills in the production of a creative media project.

6.1 Maintain evaluative and reflective records of the development and production of a creative media project. 6.2 Use evaluative and reflective skills to make decisions for a creative media production project.

Presentation Be able to present a creative media production project.

7.1 Explore strategies to present a creative media production project. 7.2 Present a creative media production project to a specified audience.

Grades awarded

You will be awarded a PASS / MERIT or DISTINCTION (E / C / A*) grade at the end of this accademic year.

Marking process

You will submit your final production to your marking teachers on Friday 8th May

Viewings will take place on the 11th and 12th May for final peer feedback

Teachers (AJON, SARW & JASH) will mark and feedback at all stages of the assignment (1 teacher taking control of written feedback) and will award you a FINAL grade at the end after internal verification.

Feedback throughout may be verbal, emailed or written but it is down to you as the student to take this on board and change it in due time for ONE more round of marking.

After this the marking teachers will submit the grades to the Lead IV. Once these grades have been submitted students are not allowed to work on any aspect of their project.

Week of 18th May – teachers mark AND The lead Internal verifier (SARW) will then select 50% of students work to verify to make sure marking is correct and the grades awarded reflect the work submitted.

• Students with a REFERRAL at this stage will be capped at a PASS • Students who fall just short of the next grade (max of 2 sections) will be given

the opportunity to improve • Students with a SOLID P or M will be awarded that grade with no opportunity

to improve

1st – 3rd June is when students can improve / pass course.

3rd June 2020 is the FINAL submission for students improving or refferal. Work can not be accepted after this date

The external verifier will then come in on the week of the 22nd June 2019 (requested) and assess 10% - 50% of the submissions and grant the final grade ready for submission to the exam board. The EV submits the final grades to the exam board and to UCAS.

All guidance and extra support for each section can be found on www.thcvibe.weebly.com

Pass Distinction

Merit