Ancillary Task Clearing Up of What you can use etc..

In response to Alice's question about using this brilliant image for her digipak:

I phoned OCR and they referred to the bit in the spec that says:

0. "All material for all tasks to be produced by the candidates with the exception of acknowledged non- original sound or image material used in a limited way in video/radio work."  
   

So that's a no to anything like the image above.

To be clear, YOU HAVE TO PRODUCE EVERYTHING YOURSELVES.

So if you want to use an image like the one above, you have to draw it yourselves.

Am thinking the easy way round this is just to use a still image from one of your location shoots…



Here's Megan's digipak (top) and magazine advert:

 And Elisha's:

Example of a Level 4 Digipak

Click on the image for a link to the GetAhead OCR blog and details about producing top level digipak material:

Below is a helpful link to the Weebly OCR A level blog - click on the image for a link to this page and have a look at the example music videos/digipaks.

Add this blog to your helpful link sites and START USING IT FOR YOURSELVES…

We Were Both Right...

Hmm, it seems that OCR do actually apply a small Raw to UMS conversion - but not consistently the same amount to every grade - I'll show you all on Friday, but here's Alice's data:

So as you can see, her Raw mark (what she got out of 50 for each exam essay) was 94/100 - just like it says on her script in Fronter.

However, the UMS grade (the result that YOU all see on your results statement on results days) is 99/100.

There has clearly been a conversion - in Alice's case, it equates to 5 marks!  Brilliant!  But when looking at everyone else's raw marks to UMS, it appears that the lower down the scale you go, the smaller the conversion - so someone getting, say, 50 raw marks - the UMS conversion is only a paltry 1 or 2 marks.

I've no idea why.

I may speak to Mr V tomorrow as I seem to remember some kind of curved graph from the dark days of GCSE maths that may explain this conversion thing.