This document provides the brief and assessment criteria for a practical task to create a magazine and billboard advertisement for a cosmetics product aimed at men or women. Students must research existing similar products and target audiences, and plan their ad's representation of gender. Their work will be evaluated on research, planning, production skills, understanding of media codes and conventions, and targeting their audience. Higher levels require excellent work in these areas.
2. Many a small thing has
been made large by the
right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain
3. Practical Task
Brief: Create a magazine AND billboard advertisement
for a cosmetics product aimed at men or women.
4. Assessment Criteria
Marking criteria for research and planning
The Production Log and Production Portfolio will provide evidence of the
candidates work towards research and planning. Where the candidate has
worked in a group, they will demonstrate the contribution of the individual
candidate to the production. Teacher observations of the candidates work
will also contribute to the mark; teachers are requested to differentiate the
contributions of individuals within the group and to justify individual marks
by recording their observations on the controlled assessment cover sheet.
As part of the moderation sample, the moderator will request the
Production Portfolio, including the Production Log.
Level 4 (2430 marks)
There is excellent research into similar products and a potential target
audience.
There is excellent organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.
There is excellent work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or
storyboarding.
Time management is excellent. Dont be lazy and
lose out on all these
glorious marks!!!!
5. Assessment Criteria
Marking Criteria for Production Exercise
This assignment is marked out of 40.
Level 4 (3140 marks)
An excellent response to the task that demonstrates:
excellent organisation and presentational skills in the chosen
medium
excellent understanding of the media language that has been
used to construct representation
excellent understanding of the generic codes and conventions
that have been used to construct representation
excellent sense of creativity and stimulation employed in
targeting a specific audience.
6. Choose an area of cosmetics
Look around the room at the examples to help you.
Once you have chosen an area of focus for your practical, you
need to decide on your target audience:
Gender
Age
Income
Interests (audience profile)
How is your advert going to represent this particular gender?
You need to look at existing examples before you can start
building your own product.
7. Research Task
How is your advert going to represent this particular
gender? You need to look at existing examples before you
can start building your own product.
At least two examples of
similar existing products
with the same target
audience, complete with
detailed annotations
with terminology and
links to the ways in
which gender is represented.