Two Hour Exam

Thursday 16th June (2pm)

Two Questions on Production (worth 25 marks each)

One Question on

Either: *Postmodernism

Or: *Collective Identity (worth 50 marks)

* You choose which topic you feel most comfortable with.

Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Question 1:Describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.

• Question 1(a) requires candidates to describe and evaluate their 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 them 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.

Genre

Narrative

Representation

Audience

Media language

Question 1(b) requires candidates to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept:

Organise your skills under the following headings (certain skills

may well fall under more than one heading):

Digital Technology

Creativity

Research and planning

Post-production

Using conventions from real media texts

Jot down the production skills you have developed over the two year media course

1 (a) “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 Marks]

Exam Question for 1(A)

January 2010 Exam Question: 1(A)

“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 theseskills developed over time”. (25 marks)

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 productionhas developed over time. [25]

You will need to refer to your work for the Foundation (Magazine Project) and Advanced (Music Promo Package) Portfolio units.

Marks are awarded for:• Explanation / analysis / argument (10 marks)• Use of examples (10 marks)• Use of terminology (5 marks)