Planning of a Past Exam Question

Exam Question: "Sometimes working within constraints produces the most interesting work" (Branston and Strafford) How have you used real media conventions to produce interesting or effective coursework productions?

I think that the quote is suggesting that although we have access to a wide variety of media to help us produce products, we are almost better off using basic applications that do not distract our attention from our original goal.

4 conventions that I used within my;

Advanced Portfolio

Matching the lyrics to visuals

Used the genre characteristics of acoustic soul type music.

Foundation Portfolio

I used a Thriller soundtrack

I created tension by using flashbacks

- I adhered to these conventions.
- They made my products a lot more convincing and created what I had expected
- They show my progression throughout the two years as I followed through the conventions to try and make a more effective product.
- The foundation portfolio introduced me to forms and conventions of genre and I managed to use my knowledge of genre characteristics to apply them to my music video.
- The foundation portfolio also gave me a better understanding of how to apply my conventions to my products.
- I decided to avoid using the more technical conventions and try to stick to the most common conventions. As this seemed to work for my thriller opening.
- I decided to take more risks when creating my advanced portfolio this was because I thought some of the conventions needed to be challenged.
- This made my products more effective as i was able to create what I wanted and was able to mould an existing convention to what I wanted.