Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Question 1(a) (half an hour on this)

Requires candidates to describe and evaluate your skill development over the course of your production work, from foundation portfolio to advance portfolio. The focus of this evaluation, must be on skills development. The question will require you to adapt this to one or two specific production practices:

1. Digital technology
2. Creativity
3. Research and planning
4. Post production
5. Using conventions from real media texts.

Example question: (June 2010) 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. (25marks)


Question 1(b) (half an hour on this)
Requires candidates to select  one production and evaluate it in relation to one of the following media concept. The list of concepts to which questions will relate is as follows:

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

Example question: (June 2010) Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions. (25marks)

Mark Scheme for Question 1(a) and 1(b)
 Total section= 50marks

• Explanation/ analysis/ argument (10marks)
• Use of examples (10marks)
• Use of terminology (5marks)