The Preliminary Tasks

Print task
Preliminary Exercise: using DTP (Desktop Publisher) and an image manipulation program, produce the front page of a new school 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.

Video task
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 he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.