Approaching Question 1a

Question 1a advice handout

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This document is an amalgamation of advice from Pete's Media Blog and offers very uesful advice for approaching Question 1a.

Example Answer for Question 1b

Example answer for question 1b

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This presentation is designed to be used as an aid for creating a practise question. I wrote it using a previous student video and pretending I made it. This isn't designed to be an exemplar answer, just an example of an approach you could take. Have a go at answering the same question for one of your productions. Read through each of the example paragraphs and replicate it for your own video. Good Luck!

Additional Resources for Question 1b

Section A: Question 1b help

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Narrative theory hand out

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Audience worksheet2012

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Representation theory hand-out

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Genre theory

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Genre theory

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CLASS BLOG ARCHIVE 2011

Here are links to the class blogs from 2011:

http://p1theory11.blogspot.com/

http://p1skills11.blogspot.com/

http://p2skills11.blogspot.com/

http://p2theory11.blogspot.com/

http://q1skills11.blogspot.com/

http://q1theory11.blogspot.com/

http://r1theory11.blogspot.com/

http://r1skills11.blogspot.com/

http://s1skills11.blogspot.com/

http://s1theory11.blogspot.com/

http://s2skills11.blogspot.com/

http://s2theory11.blogspot.com/

http://t1skills11.blogspot.com/

http://t1theory11.blogspot.com/

http://t2skills11.blogspot.com/

http://t2theory11.blogspot.com/

http://u1skills11.blogspot.com/

http://u1theory11.blogspot.com/

Practice Questions for Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Why not try one of the practice questions below and either e-mail it to your teacher or bring your answer to a workshop?

1a. 

i. To what extent have digital technologies helped develop your research and planning skills during your Media 'A' Level?

ii. Has using conventions from real media texts in your work enhanced or impeded your ability to be creative?

1b. 

i. With reference to your study of genre, how useful is it to apply a critical framework to your production work?

ii. What decisions did you make during the creation of representation in your production work?

How to use this blog.

The purpose of this blog is to help you to revise for Section A of the G325 exam and for you to catch up if you miss any lessons.

On here you will find:

Details of what the 1a and 1b questions require.
Advice on how to approach each of the sub-topics for 1a and 1b.

Also, each class also has a blog for the 2 questions, which houses short films and other revision materials created by you and your peers. Have a look at your own class, but also make sure that you look at what materials other classes have created. It's all about sharing!

Requirements of the Unit: Question 1 (a).

30 minutes. 25 marks.

Students are required to describe and evaluate their skills development over the course of their production work (ie. throughout the course), from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.

The skills development focus will be adapted to one or more of the following topics in the exam question:

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

Students can discuss relevant work completed outside of their Media A Level course.