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Exam section A 2016
This document provides guidance for Section A of the G325: Critical Perspectives in Media A2 exam. It discusses the two compulsory questions in Section A. Question 1(a) requires students to evaluate their skills development across productions from Foundation to Advanced Portfolios, focusing on specific production practices. Question 1(b) requires students to analyze one production in relation to a media concept. The document lists common concepts and practices that have been asked about in past exams. It provides examples of previous questions, mark schemes, and tips for answering Question 1(a) and 1(b) at different levels. The purpose is to help students understand the requirements and prepare for the theoretical evaluation section of the exam.
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Exam section A 2016
- 1. G325: Critical Perspectivesin Media A2 Media Studies
- 2. Section A: TheoreticalEvaluation of Production You are required to answer two compulsory questions – no choice. Question 1(a) requires you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your 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
- 3. Section A: TheoreticalEvaluation of Production The list of practices to which questions will relate is as follows:- o Digital Technology o Creativity o Research & Planning o Post-Production o Using Conventions from real media texts In your exam, questions will be posed using one or two of these categories!!
- 4. Q1A in anutshell Directly asks you to evaluate how your media production skills have developed progressively from AS to A2 Critical reflection on creative processes and decision making in the context of a range of productions and progress made from AS to A2. You must refer to work produced in Year 12 and Year 13 and emphasis development/progress
- 5. Past Examples ofQuestion 1A Read over the handout. Identify Question 1A What topic have come up? What has not come up recently!
- 6. Section A: TheoreticalEvaluation of Production Question 1(b) requires you to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. The list of concepts to which questions will relate is as follows:- o Genre o Narrative o Representation o Audience o Media Language In your exam, questions will be set using one of these concepts only!!
- 7. Past Examples ofQuestion 1B Read over the handout. Identify Question 1B What topics have come up? What has not come up recently!
- 8. Q1B in anutshell This question requires a more distanced approach – a textual analysis of one production outcome – as a media text – to demonstrate the ability to apply a theoretical concept to the text.
- 9. Most Likely? 1A 1.Digital Technology 2. Research and Planning 3. Post Production 4. Conventions from real media texts Creativity can come up in connection with any of the above! 1B 1. Audience 2. Media Language 3. Representation 4. Genre 5. Narrative
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- 11. The Mark Scheme– June 2012
- 12. Question 1A LevelThree
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- 14. Let’s start small…. Fill in a for one production you have done. (prelim, thriller, music video, website, digipack, magazine advert) Try to do this for about 3 others as well
- 15. This should notbe too hard- include hardware (cameras, phones for pictures/audio, computers and anything else you used) software (on your computer) and online programs, such as blogger, youtube etc. This is a difficult question and one that does not have a correct answer as such, but ought to give you food for thought. Start with the genre and type (thriller and film opening) Then list the conventions you had to include in order for it to be a successful product. Repeat this process for the other productions (it’ll be harder for the prelim as there was no set genre or form – but there were some things you had to include…)