Your A2 Exam

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

This requires you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of their production, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.

Question 1 (a)

Here you will describe and evaluate your skills development. The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development. The question will require them to adapt to one or two specific practices. The practices to which questions will focus are:

• Digital Technology
• Creativity
• Research and Planning
• Post-Production
• Using Conventions from real media texts

We will focus on attempting to answer these questions in class in preparation for your exam. This is why it is so important for you to complete deadlines, otherwise you will all be at different stages and subsequently ill prepared for the exam.

Question 1(b)

Here you will select one of your productions and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. Either:

• Genre
• Narrative
• Representation
• Audience
• Media Language

The exam will use one of these concepts only.

Section B: Contemporary Media Issues: Media in the Online Age

This should be prepared through specific case studies, texts, debates and research of your choice. It must combine knowledge of at least two media and a range of texts, industries, audiences and debates. There should be emphasis on the historical, the contemporary and the future in relation to the chosen topic, with most attention on the present.

You will need to offer a balance of media theories, knowledge of texts and industries and personal engagement with issues and debates.