Coursework: Statement of Intent, pre-production and filming

Our coursework projects are really starting to take off with some brilliant preliminary exercises. Now it's time to update our Statements of Intent and plan our documentary filming schedule.

The next stages of the project are critical - this is where the video project will stand or fall. The next tasks and deadlines are as follows:

Statement of Intent second draft - THIS WEEK
Submitted as a NEW blog post AND hard copy from Microsoft Word / Google Docs. Statement of Intent guidance is provided by AQA in their NEA Student Booklet but we strongly recommend you also look at our Statement of Intent questions to consider document too (you'll need to log in with your Greenford Google account to open these documents). 

Finally, here's an example Statement of Intent from 2019 (different brief - TV drama trailer) to give you some ideas on how you can use layout and bullet points to include a large amount of information without going too far over the word count.

Statement of Intent deadline: Week commencing Monday 1 November

Documentary pre-production and filming

If you are planning to film over half-term, you'll need to plan your pre-production this week (script, shot list, mise-en-scene and shooting schedule). Keep an eye out for blogposts to help with this planning over the next two weeks.

Filming of documentary

Filming window: Friday 22 October - Monday 22 November.
Deadline: Monday 22 November

Tutorials
While you work on the above deadlines, you will have another tutorial with your coursework teacher looking at your latest Statement of Intent and checking pre-production planning. For those who film early in the filming window, it will also involve checking the 'rushes' (the film clips as they come in).

Mark scheme

A few of you have requested the mark scheme for the Statement of Intent. You can find it in the A Level Media specification document here - on pages 21-22 (if you keep scrolling you can also find the mark scheme for the remaining 50 marks for your productions).

If you need a recap on the brief from AQA, you can find the brief here - Brief Three: TV documentary.

This is the moment you need to step up... we're demanding professional standards to match the incredible production work Greenford Media students have produced at A Level in the past. Good luck!