Advanced Portfolio Chosen Brief

A2 Advanced Portfolio Coursework Briefs

A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

• a website homepage for the band;

• a digipak for the album’s release;

• a magazine advertisement for the digipak.

A promotion package for a new film, to include a trailer, together with two of the following three options:

• a website homepage for the film;

• a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;

• a poster for the film.

A promotion package for a new soap opera, to include a TV trailer, together with two of the following three options:

• a listings magazine front cover featuring the new soap;

• two hyperlinked webpages (with video extract) for the soap’s website;

• a poster for the soap.

A selection of materials related to an original children’s TV drama, to include the title sequence to the TV programme, together with two of the following three options:

• the front cover to a magazine for the series;

• a DVD cover for the series;

• a radio advertisement for the magazine.

An extract from an original documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

• a radio trailer for the documentary;

• a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;

• a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.

A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:

• a poster for the film;

• a radio trailer for the film;

• a film magazine review page featuring the film.

An extract from a radio play, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

• a newspaper advertisement for the play;

• a double-page listings magazine feature about the play;

• a page from the radio station’s website promoting the play.

The first four pages from an original regional magazine (if done as a group task, each member of the group to produce an individual edition of the magazine, following the same house style), together with two of the following three options:

• a radio advertisement for the magazine;

• two hyperlinked pages from the magazine’s website;

• a billboard advertisement for the magazine.

The Brief I have chosen from the selection above is the original extract from a documentary TV programme with a double page spread from a magazine and a newspaper advertisement for the documentary, as highlighted above. 

I decided to chose this brief as I personally enjoy documentaries as they give an insight into the incredible and interesting things that occur around the world. I am going to cover the very current topic of immigration in my documentary extract.