Understand how a specified medium can be used to create a record

You must first consider how you will combine two or more of the creative and media disciplines in order to create your record. Your teachers will give you advice on how to do this.

You need to understand the medium you intend to employ for the making of your record, and you need to know how it can be used. This means first looking closely at:

• a range of examples of recordings made in the medium that you have chosen to use

• examples of work from different periods in time, not just the present

• recent developments in the medium you have selected.

If you are working in a group for this unit you should do this exploration and development with the other members of your group.

You may already be familiar with the technologies of this medium, but, whether you have used it before or are new to it, you should think about any additional skills you will need to or would like to develop. You might, for example, need to improve your skills in using a camera, or in recording sound, or in using a particular type of paint or drawing medium.

You might, of course, choose to combine two mediums in creating your record.

Evidence

undertake an investigation into a recording process and present the results of your investigation

• research notes
• research logs
• the presentation of the results of the investigation

Mark band 3 (8–10)

Learners will show some initiative in research and will be well organised. They will show some ability to focus the research more precisely. They will use a wide range of sources which will produce more useful and relevant information. Learners will show some ability to compare and assess information gathered and will begin to make connections between elements of this information.

The account of how the recording medium has been used to create records will be well organised, thorough and will provide a good range of examples which show some variety. The account will clearly address how the examples were produced and so will be explanatory in nature.

There will be substantial and detailed descriptions of both obvious and less obvious recent developments. Learners working in this mark band will not necessarily note more developments than those working in the middle band, but will discuss them in such a way that they begin to explain how or why the developments occurred.