Skills 1a – Conventions Essay

This is a little harder to talk about in terms of progression throughout the two years as conventions vary from product to product.

We suggest, therefore, that you pair up suitable products where the conventions linked to their production can be seen to be developed as you move on from one product to the next. We have paired them up for you but clearly you can make your own mind up and choose others.

Conventions questions often have reference to Real Media Texts (RMT) so you should always have some examples to hand to mention; films, magazines, TV shows, extracts, sequences, websites etc.

Similarly to RP and DT you should complete the Conventions story template WHICH is on classroom for easy reference and marking.

The Question will be:

In what ways did you engage with the conventions of real media texts in your own productions.  Nov 2015 

You have plenty of information in your blogs regarding this in the CCRs when you did whole presentations on using, challenging, developing conventions.  Prepare your stories today and for independent study and then you can write it up in the next lesson.

Remember, this question requires you to look at as many products as possible.  One way you could tackle it, is by talking about the start of the course when you were merely copying, applying a convention  and then by the end were developing and challenging the conventions.

 

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