EXAMINER'S REPORT 2011

• Candidates frequently spent substantial time planning the main production but hardly considered their ancillary tasks.
• Candidates had presented their pre-production material with a director’s commentary
• Combined performance and narrative to good effect, with a variety of camera work used creatively and with appropriate editing.
• The best teaser trailers showed excellent understanding of the genre, being short in length and consisting of numerous shots that were tightly edited.
• Candidates seemed to spend so little time (or had little knowledge of) the importance of the lighting and composition of images in their principal shoots that they were left with sub-standard original material to work with.
• The best videos combined performance and narrative to good effect, with a variety of camera work used creatively and with appropriate editing.
• Best practice made creative and varied use of digital technology in the presentation of work, using such things as video, audio, PowerPoint and freely available presentation software online such as Prezi and Scribd.
• Candidates whose responses are limited to essay style prose, whether on a blog or PowerPoint presentation illustrated by some still images, do not demonstrate excellence in the use of digital technology in the presentation of their work.
• Images were best when thought had been given to pose, expression, props, lighting, costume and setting and when subsequent use of image software enhanced the photos appropriately.
• Camerawork was often far too limited, particularly lacking in close ups and with insufficient attention paid to framing.