In the exam you are required to answer 2 questions worth 25 marks each. Both questions will relate to your production work.

Question 1(A) - Requires you to focus your skills development across all of your production work (AS,A2 and outside of college). You must describe your skills development ( and discuss at least 2 productions) in relation to 1 of the following production practices:

Digital Technology, Creativity, Research and Planning and using conventions from real media texts.

Questions will relate to 1 or 2 of the categories above.

Question 1 (B):

Question 1 (B) is specific to 1 of your production pieces

You will be required to evaluate your work in relation to 1 of the following concepts:

*Genre

*Narrative

*Representation

*Audience

Media language (always important in the exam).

You must be prepared to evaluate your product in relation to all of the above concepts.

Critical Reflection - Tips:

Focus on creative decisions informed by institutional knowledge and theoretical understanding -When writing you need a reason

Evaluate you process - don't just describe it - why do some things work and some didn't, it doesn't matter whether everything worked as long as you state you are aware of why the did or why they didn't work.

Relate you media to real media - analyzing micro elements.

Try to deconstruct yourself - analyse the reasons for your decisions.

Choose relevant micro examples to relate to larger themes.

Discuss wether your products follow or challenge existing conventions (probably a bit of both).

Think about how the requirements of the task affected what you did (project for the media studies has different requirements than making a video for an artist as a self employed producer).

Quote and reference . Use evidence to support your points.