Advanced Portfolio Brief

Happy New Year and welcome back everyone

I will now be using this blog as the front page of the Advanced Production for those whom I will be responsible for. If you have not already signed up to follow this blog then do so now. It is your responsibility to to keep yourself up to date. This is the first part of your advanced production instructions and a more detailed booklet will follow. A good tip is to start looking at loads of short films Virgin Shorts and BBC Film Network are good places to start.


What does the Advanced Portfolio consist of?

The Advanced Portfolio has three parts, all of which relate to each other:

The Main Task: creating a short film lasting 5 minutes

Ancillary Task: creating a poster to advertise the film
Ancillary Task: creating a review of the film for a magazine


This booklet only concerns the Main Task; further advice will be given for the two Ancillary Tasks later this half term.

What do you have to do for the Main Task?

The OCR specification states:-

Main task: Produce a short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes.

DEADLINE FOR THE MAIN TASK: HALF TERM – EXACT DATE TO BE ADVISED

In order for you to be able to answer questions in the exam based on your production work, you must work within the following genre or style frameworks:

• Social Realism
• Horror
• Crime or Thriller
Or a combination of these…(hybrid)


Also, in order to answer other possible questions in the exam, you must consider the following areas in your planning:

• Narrative structure
• Representation
• Genre
• Audience
• Film Language

Is this an individual or group project?

• This is a group project.
• You have to work in groups of no more than 4.
• Despite it being a group effort, you will still be marked as individuals. So, if an individual in the group does very little, this will be reflected in that individual’s mark.
• You have a responsibility to each other – do not let each other down. Group members have every right to inform their teachers of individuals who prove to be unreliable.
• As occurred during the Foundation Production work, Andy and (technicians) will also be keeping a record of which group members are involved in the editing process and this feeds into final grades