G325 exam questions – real and imaginary

Real 1a questions

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 these skills developed over time.

“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?

Invented 1a questions

Discuss how using different forms of digital technology to aid you with your research and planning work and consider how your use of digital technology has developed during the course of your studies.

How has knowledge of the conventions of real media texts helped or hindered your ability to be creative with your coursework productions?

In what ways have you drawn upon the conventions of real media texts when working in the post-production stages of your coursework projects?

How useful have different forms of digital technology been in the pots-production of your coursework projects and how has your ability to use these forms of digital technology evolved as you have progressed through the course?

1a – generic essay structure

1)Establish what coursework you have done and what other practical projects you are going to refer to

2)AS work example 1 – detailed use of example from an AS production and directly relating to question focus areas

3)A2 work example 1 – detailed use of example from an AS production and directly relating to question focus areas

4)Evaluation of skilld evelopment in the focus areas from AS to A2

5)AS work example 2 – detailed use of example from an AS production and directly relating to question focus areas

6)AS work example 2 – detailed use of example from an AS production and directly relating to question focus areas

7)Evaluation of skill development in the focus areas from AS to A2. Also discuss non-coursework productions – Judge Dredd , Girls Talk

8)Conclusion – what you have learnt so far and what you have still to learn

1b questions

Real 1b questions

“Media texts rely on cultural experiences in order for audiences to easily make sense of narratives”. Explain how you used conventional and / or experimental narrative approaches in one of your production pieces.

Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions.

Invented 1b questions

“Genres are systems of expectation that circulate between industry, audience and text”. Discuss how your work confirms or contradicts this statement.

Choosing one of your coursework productions, discuss how you have attempted to please your target audience.

In what ways do various elements of media language contribute to the process of communicating to your audience?

1b generic approach

1)State what coursework production you are going to discuss and what your argument is going to be.

2)Example 1 – focused example dealing with the question

3)Example 2 – focused example dealing with the question

4)Example 3 – focused example dealing with the question

5)Evaluate – what do your 3 examples show?

6)Conclusion – summary of argument

Postmodern Media – real questions

Discuss two or more media texts that you would define as ‘postmodern’ and explain why you would give them this label. Cover at least two media in your answer.

Consider the ways in which postmodern media challenge conventional relations between audience and text. Refer to at least two media forms in your answer.

What is meant by ‘postmodern media’?

Explain why the idea of ‘postmodern media’ might be considered controversial

Postmodern Media – generic essay structure

1)Introduction – what texts are you going to discuss, what broadly are you going to argue

2)Theoretical base – what do you underdstand by the term postmodern? Different approaches, different theorists

3)Medium 1 Example 1 – detailed discussion of how this text is postmodern – also tailor to demands of the question

4)Medium 2 Example 1 – detailed discussion of how this text is postmodern – also tailor to demands of the question

5)(Medium 3 Example 1 – detailed discussion of how this text is postmodern – also tailor to demands of the question)

6)Evaluate – are all postmodern in the same way? Are some texts more serious than others? Relate to the question

7)Medium 1 Example 2 – detailed discussion of how this text is postmodern – also tailor to demands of the question

8)Medium 2 Example 2 – detailed discussion of how this text is postmodern – also tailor to demands of the question

9)(Medium 3 Example 2 – detailed discussion of how this text is postmodern – also tailor to demands of the question)

10)Evaluate – are all postmodern in the same way? Are some texts more serious than others? Relate to the question

11)Conclusion – summary of your argument

Points 5 and 9 required if you are aiming for high B or above, not if your not.