The Brief and The Client

The Brief

You will produce a 12 page, full-colour, tabloid size newspaper consisting of study materials to help OCR media studies students answer the A2 critical perspectives exam.

In small groups you will need to research, plan and produce your own case studies, learning plans and lesson activities for use by students and teachers in post-16 education (school,s sixth form and FE Colleges) You must also find advertisers to help cover your costs of production.

You should make the paper visually interesting, intellectually engaging, exam specific and up to date: think of games, investigations and simulations, comic strips, timelines, infographics, interviews and analysis of your own primary research with real audiences and media users/producers.

The Client

Your client is Jenny Grahame at the english and media centre who will distribute the paper via their website (if it meets their requirements) you will also seek advice and information from julian mcdougall, principal examiner for A2 ocr media studies.

You will work in four teams; three teams producing content (four pages each) and one quality control team overseeing the others. You will each have a specific role and keep a journal of your individual progress as well as maintaining a group blog to keep the rest of the teams and your client up to date.

The ideas and strategies you devise must be suited to the learning styles of 16-19 year olds and you will test, tweak and revise your materials by trying them out on students in other classes and colleges before your newspaper goes to print.

Sounds interesting...