G325 Question 1a

Critical Perspectives in the Media

Question 1(a) requires you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of their production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio. The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development, and the question will require you to adapt this to one or two specific production practices. The list of practices to which questions will relate is as follows:

• Digital Technology
• Creativity
• Research and planning
• Post-production
• Using conventions from real media texts

In the examination, questions will be posed using one or two of these categories. Where you have produced relevant work outside the context of their A Level media course, you are free to additionally refer to this experience.

Past Questions

Specimen: “Digital technology turns media consumers into media producers.” In your own experience, how has your creativity developed through using digital technology to complete your coursework productions? [25]

January 2010: Describe how you developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time. [25]

June 2010: Describe the ways in which your production work was informed by research into real media texts and how your ability to use such research for production developed over time. [25]

January 2011:

Candidates will need to refer to their work for the Foundation and Advanced Portfolio units.

• Explanation / analysis / argument (10 marks)
• Use of examples (10 marks)
• Use of terminology (5 marks)

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