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.

Record

This unit is about making a record of something. That something could be a performance, an event or a process.

1. Understand how a specified medium can be used to create a record
2. Be able to plan the creation of a record in a chosen medium
3. Be able to take part in or complete the creation of a record in a chosen medium
4. Be able to monitor the creation of the record.

You may be involved in the process of recording, or you may be involved in the creation of something that is recorded.

If you decide to create what is going to be recorded you must develop something especially for this unit. If you are a performer you will work closely at all times with the person or people involved in making the recording.

You may decide to work on your own to make a record of an event, place or situation.

Create a guide

For this part of the unit, you will use the information you have
collected when working on learning outcome 1 and create a guide
to the creative and media activities and events in your region. This
could be in the form of a leaflet, booklet, a set of posters, a radio or
TV programme, a website or a presentation. To do this you must:
• decide what audience you are going to produce your guide for
• decide on the medium in which you wish to produce your
guide
• decide on a suitable form for your guide (bearing your intended
audience in mind)
• ensure you have up-to-date information on the creative and
media activities and events in your region
• consider how best to present the information for the audience
you are aiming at – this will involve things like how you will
organise the information you have gathered, how it will be laid
out, the language you use, illustrative material etc
• determine a production schedule
• produce your guide.
You may work on your own or in a group to do this.

Evidence

all pre-production
production plan
post-production documentation
the finished product

Mark band 3 (15–20)
Assessment
focus LO.4
Be able to
create a guide
to the creative
and media
scene in a
chosen region
The guide to creative and media activity in the region will be
comprehensive.
It will be attractive, imaginative and well executed, employing a broad range
of technology, materials and techniques, and will show a degree of
proficiency in the application of skills. The format will have been carefully
chosen and there will be considerable success in using appropriate
conventions to address the target audience.
Learners will be able to follow procedures in the planning or production of
work with consistency and exactness and they will work within time
constraints.
They will produce organised records documenting their work which have a
good level of detail.

Scene day

• Gather and present research notes
• Create a bibliography.
• Annotate any secondary research you use such as research into job roles
• List the people that you interviewed for primary research
• Annotate any photographs you took of visits

2) Presentation about the creative and media scene

3) Presentation about 5 or 6 job roles and the people you interviwed

4) A review of an event or artefact

5)Planning and production documentation to support the final production guide

6)Put together an edit of all your presentations, productions and reviews on one timeline

Review an artefact, activity or event

You must collate all the preparation work and research that you undertake to show that the investigation is wide ranging and well focused.

Present your review as a radio broadcast.

We all make use of creative and media products. We read books,

magazines and papers, watch films and TV programmes, listen to

the radio and to music, and go to exhibitions, shows, plays and

gigs. We also live in an environment designed to a great extent by

creative people and filled with their work. We make individual and

personal decisions about what we do, what we use, what we like

and enjoy. This part of the unit asks you to make a personal critical

response to something you have experienced at first hand. You

must:

• choose an aspect of creative or media activity which you have

a personal interest in or have experienced as part of the

audience – this could be an artefact or group of artefacts

(photographs, paintings, a collection of jewellery), an event

such as a gig or theatrical performance, or an activity such as a

visit to a heritage site

• think carefully about your personal response to what you have

selected and explore your ideas

• present your response in a chosen form explaining carefully in

a well-supported discussion what qualities and aspects were

effective, enjoyable or striking, and why you found them so

Evidence

Although the personal response may be in the form of a written review, learners are by no

means limited to this. They might produce a short ‘piece to camera,’ an interview with a

practitioner in the form of a radio interview, a set of photographs with a commentary or perhaps

a website which combines a number of reviews

• notes on chosen activity
• presentation

Mark band 3 (8–10)

Learners will choose a creative or media event, artefact or activity and,

having conducted a focused investigation, describe it in detail.

Personal responses will be articulate and will clearly address the qualities

and aspects of the event, artefact or activity that were effective, enjoyable or

striking. Learners will take a predominantly discursive approach, making

frequent and detailed reference to what is being written or spoken abou

Research creative and media employment roles and requirements

Although it may be some time before you go into employment, you

should get some understanding of the existing jobs and

employment possibilities in the creative and media sectors in your

region. You will do this by exploring the work of individuals,

organisations and companies involved in producing, performing,

creating, distributing and exhibiting work in your region. For this

part of the unit you must:

• find, meet and talk to people who work in the creative and

media sector in your region

• find out what doing their jobs involves – both the pleasures and

the pressures

• find out how people get jobs in particular areas of the creative

and media sector in your region

• find out what qualifications are needed for the type of jobs

available in the creative and media sector in your region

• explore opportunities for developing a career in the creative

and media sector in your region.

You will present a summary of your findings in a written or oral

report. This may be combined with the report you present for

learning outcome 1

Evidence

• Research notes
• Presentation

Undertakes a wide-ranging and wellfocused investigation into opportunities for

employment in the creative and media

sector in the chosen region.

Provides a well-organised and thorough

summary of a range of job roles in the

creative and media sector in the chosen

region with substantial and detailed citation

of both expected and less predictable

examples.

Shows a substantial knowledge of

qualifications needed for the type of jobs

available.(12-15 marks)

Research creative and media activity in the area

For this part of the unit you must investigate what is happening in

your region and develop a picture of the overall creative and media

scene. You need to explore:

• commercial, public and voluntary organisations which promote

creative and media activity

• production activities

• facilities for distribution and exhibition.

You need to look right across the creative and media spectrum –

the visual arts, crafts, fashion and clothing, music, dance, theatre,

television and video, radio and audio, advertising, interactive

media, animation etc.

You might do this by visiting venues and locations and finding out

what exhibitions, performances and events are coming up, visiting

relevant places (galleries, shops, arts centres, cinemas, facilities

houses etc), or by meeting people involved in these activities.

Research will also involve reading local papers, checking listings

in magazines and publications, doing internet research, and

collecting brochures.

You will present a summary of your findings in a written or oral

report

Evidence

• Research notes
• Presentation

Undertakes a wide-ranging and well-focused investigation into creative and

media activity in the chosen region.

Provides a well-organised and thorough

summary of creative and media activity in

the chosen region with substantial and

detailed citation of both expected and less

predictable examples. (12-15marks)