How to Upload Images (From the Internet) onto the Macs

1. Find the image you want to use on your blog.
2. Right click.
3. Select the copy image address option.
4. Find/open a post on Blogger.
5. Choose the insert image option.
6. Choose the from a URL option.
7. Paste the URL address into the paste an image URL here box.
8. Click on the add selcted option.

Foundation Portfolio in Media: Production Grade Criteria

Print Level 4 (48–60 marks)
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
- holding a shot steady, where appropriate;
- framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;
- using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;
- shooting material appropriate to the task set;
- selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;
- editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;
- using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set;
- using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
- using titles appropriately.
Video Level 4 (48–60 marks)
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
- holding a shot steady, where appropriate;
- framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;
- using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;
- shooting material appropriate to the task set;
- selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;
- editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;
- using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set;
- using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
- using titles appropriately.
Website Level 4 (48–60 marks)
There is evidence of excellence in the creative use of most of the following technical skills:
- using ICT effectively to combine images, text, sound and video;
- producing material so that it communicates clearly to the ‘reader’;
- using the conventions of web publishing to enable the ‘reader’ to navigate the material appropriately;
- holding a shot steady, where appropriate;
- framing a shot, at the appropriate distance, including and excluding elements as appropriate;- shooting material appropriate to the task set;
- selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;
- editing, with appropriate transitions and effects, so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;
- using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;
- manipulating photographs as appropriate to the context for presentation, including cropping
and resizing;
- accurately using language and register;
- appropriately integrating illustration and text;
- showing awareness of the need for variety in fonts and text size.

Foundation Portfolio in Media: Research and Planning Grade Criteria

Level 4 (16–20 marks)

• There is excellent research into similar 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.
• There is an excellent level of care in the presentation of the research and planning.
• Time management is excellent.

Foundation Porfolio Briefs

The set briefs are as follows:

Print

• Preliminary exercise: using DTP and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school/college magazine, featuring a photograph of a student in medium close-up plus some appropriately laid-out text and a masthead. Additionally candidates must produce a DTP mock-up of the layout of the contents page to demonstrate their grasp of the program.
• Main task: the front page, contents and double page spread of a new music magazine.

All images and text used must be original, produced by the candidate(s), minimum of FOUR images per candidate.

Video

• Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
• Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. 

All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.

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 welcoming text. 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: 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.

All material for both tasks to be produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of musical audio effects from a copyright-free source.