Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Question 1a:

Requires candidate to describe and evaluate your skill development over the course of your production work, from foundation portfolio to advanced portfolio. The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development.

The question will equire you to adapt this to one or two specific production practises:

• DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
• CREATIVITY
• RESEARCH AND PLANNING
• POST-PRODUCTION
• USING CONVENTIONS FROM REAL MEDIA TEXTS

Example question - June 2010:

Describe how you describe research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples to show how these skills deveoped over a range of time. (25 marks)


Question 1b:

Requires candidate 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:

• GENRE
• NARRATIVE
• REPRESENTATION
• AUDIENCE
• MEDIA LANGUAGE

Example question - June 2010:

Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions (25 marks)


Mark Scheme:

There are three different areas where you will be allocated marks - same for both of section 1:

• 10 marks for explanation, analysis and argument
• 10 marks for examples
• 5 marks for use of terminology