A2 Briefs

In our lesson this week, we were told what the briefs were for the A2 portfolio. There was a lot more choice for this years brief than there was for A2 so we would have to think about each brief to make sure we had picked the right one that suited us. 

This is the A2 brief..

Media Studies - A2 Course Layout

Although many sounded interesting, we decided we were going to want to do a video production as we thought this was our strongest point.  

From the video briefs we picked out some potential breifes we would like to do. This included:
- A short film
- A music video
- A teaser trailer 
- A documentary 

After a group discussion, we decided that we wouldn't want to do a teaser trailer as it would be too difficult to do effectively, as we would have to think of a whole plot, think about all important scenes and then shoot them and edit it to still be able to tell the basic story of the film without giving away too much and making it look like a load of random clips. So we decided this was not a brief we were going to do. 

We are still undecided on the exact brief we are going to do so we are going to do some research on documentaries, short films and music videos to gain a wide range of research and information which is useful to look at even if we aren't going to do that certain brief as it still gives us a good understanding of different types and aspects of media, how they are similar and how they are different and things we can incorporate into our piece.