Critical Perspectives in Media: An Exam In Two Parts....

Critical Perspectives in Media: An Exam In Two Parts....

Candidates are required to answer three compulsory questions:

Two questions on their own production work

One question from a choice of six topic areas.

The unit is marked out of a total of 100, with the two questions on production work marked out of 25 each, and the media topic question marked out of 50.

There are two sections to this paper:

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Student Production (50 marks)

In question 1(a) students are asked to write about their work for the Foundation Portfolio and Advanced Portfolio units.  Students need to describe how they developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making.  They should refer to a range of examples in their answers to show how these skills developed over time.

The value of each student’s production log is clear as it provides the basis to answer this question.

The focus of this evaluation is on skills development, and the question will require students to adapt this to one or two specific production practices from this list:

1. Digital Technology
2. Creativity
3. Research and Planning
4. Post-production
5. Using conventions from real media texts

The second question 1(b) in section A of the exam asks students to identify one of their productions and evaluate it in relation to one theoretical media concept from:

1. Genre
2. Narrative
3. Representation
4. Audience
5. Media Language

Section B: Contemporary Media Issues (50 marks) discussing one from this list:

1. Contemporary Media Regulation
2. Global Media
3. Media & Collective Identity (Representations)
4. Media in the Online Age
5. Post–modern Media
6. ‘We Media’ & Democracy