AS Media studies

Here is the specification for this years AS Project,

you have to complete two tasks, the first is a practice piece that will help you learn the skills required to do a great job on the main practical task.

Website Preliminary exercise: A new homepage for a school/college.

This should include a photo of the institution, buttons to provide easy navigation to other areas of the site and appropriate welcomingtext. There should also be a working hyperlink to a media department page, also with a photo.
The task aims to demonstrate understanding of the software and of webpage conventions.

Main task: A charity or campaign website
produce a campaign website including sound and video for a campaign (eg political,health, charity, environmental). The site should include a logo, original photographs, (minimum four per candidate), written text, audio, video and easy navigation.

If done as a group task, each member of the group to produce at least four pages for the site, following the same house style.
All material for both tasks to be produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of musical audio effects from a copyright-free source.
Each candidate will evaluate and reflect upon the creative process and their experience of it.
Candidates will evaluate their work electronically, this evaluation being guided by a set of key questions on a pro forma to be completed by the teacher.
The format of the discussion has some flexibility and its form can be negotiated between teacher and student: it may take place with individual candidates or with the production group as a whole, or each individual candidate or production group may make a formal or informal presentation to the whole class.