Your exam

• Is in two parts• Section A: Critical Perspectives• Section B: We Media

Reminder!

You need to become critics of your own work, you need to show, ‘critical perspective’

What will you be asked in critical perspectives?

1a will be on your Skills development from foundation to advanced portfolio and could be on:1. Digital technology2. Creativity3. Research and planning4. Post production5. Using conventions from real media

texts.

• 1b will be on a key concept chosen from

1. Genre2. Narrative3. Representation4. Audience5. Language

Today we will focus on 1aSkills development from foundation-advanced

• Which skill did you have the most difficulty with and why?

• Class graph

Which skill did you find most difficult and why?

1. Digital technology2. Creativity3. Research and planning4. Post production5. Using conventions from real media

texts.

Task:1. Log on to your completed blog2. Create and print out a 6 frame

storyboard in ‘Pages’ of your final products.

Tasks:

2. Swop storyboards in the following pairings

Katy & LucyNicole & LouiseHannah & JoshEmily B & MaisieEmily C & Rebecca

Beth & HarrisonIsabel & JessSuzie & Jennifer

Firstly, in pairs agree on your understanding of the skills

1. Digital technology2. Creativity3. Research and planning4. Post production5. Using conventions from real media

texts

• Post production is a more ambiguous term for some media areas and thus examiners will credit candidates’ ability to demonstrate their understanding of the term in relation to their own work through whichever approach the centre encourages. For example, a centre may treat all manipulation of copy and images as post production in print. For film a centre may consider post production to include editing, sound and effects and for games design a centre may distinguish between production of the game engine and post-production relating to sound and dialogue. The definitions of the term are at the discretion of candidates / centres, but candidates are encouraged to explain their use of the term in their answers in the examination to aid the examiner.

From the mark scheme

• 3. Move to your partners computer, review their blog and annotate their storyboard according to the skills you can identify that they have used from each of these skills.

1. Digital technology2. Creativity3. Research and planning4. Post production5. Using conventions from real media

texts

• 4. Return to your partner and explain how you think their skills have progressed.

• 5. You will be assigned an essay title to discuss and plan a response to.

Together look at these previous questions.

1. ‘Technology has taken all the creativity out of media production’

2. ‘A project that is too well planned lacks opportunities for spontaneity and creativity.’

3. ‘Media producers can learn nothing from studying the conventions of old texts,’

You need to brainstorm examples from your foundation and advanced portfolios that you can use to answer these

Prepare a 7 point essay plan to

present to the rest of the class

Essay allocation:

Katy & Lucy 1Nicole & Louise 2Hannah & Josh 3Emily B & Maisie 1Emily C & Rebecca 2

Beth & Harrison 1Isabel & Jess 2Suzie & Jennifer 3

The seven point essay plan

• Respond to the quote, explain your use of the term to aid the examiner.

• At least five examples, two from foundation, three from advanced.

• For each of these offer ‘PEE’• Point-example-explain• Conclusion offering your interpretation

of the quote, do you agree or disagree or would you rephrase it?

Person a write the introduction and person b, the conclusion to share with the rest of the class

Which skill will you have most difficulty writing about in an exam situation?

Have a look at January’s exam and mark scheme and prepare your ‘nightmare’ question and mark scheme and next lesson we will work on how you could answer it.

Now have a look at this question from January’s exam

• Explain how far your understanding of the conventions of existing media influenced the way you created your own media products.

• Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how this understanding developed over time. [25]

Explain how far your understanding of the conventions of existing media influenced the way you created your own media products. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how this understanding

developed over time.

• Level 3 (16-20 marks) • There is some sense of progression and of how examples have been selected,

and some useful descriptions of media conventions. • Progress made is described and evaluated with clarity. • Candidates offer a mostly clear, mostly relevant and reasonable range of

examples of media conventions in relation to decisions and outcomes.• The answer makes proficient use of media terminology throughout, with

research, planning and production terms handled very well. • Relatively straightforward ideas have been expressed with some clarity and

fluency. Arguments are generally relevant, though may stray from the point of the question. There will be some errors of spelling, punctuation and grammar but these are unlikely to be intrusive or obscure meaning.

• Level 4 (21-25 marks) • There is a clear sense of progression and of how examples have been selected,

and a range of articulate reflections on media conventions.• There is a fluent evaluation of progress made over time. Candidates offer a

broad range of specific, relevant and clear examples of media conventions in relation to decisions and outcomes.

• The use of media terminology and research, planning and production terms is excellent.

Critical Perspectives Exam

How could you apply the AOs to your portfolios?