the focus of this evaluation is on SKILLS DEVELOPMENT adapted to one or 2 specific areas of production. 

paragraph 1 should be an introduction which explains which projects you did. It can be quite short.

paragraph 2 should pick up the skill area and perhaps suggest something about your starting point with it- what skills did you have already and how were these illustrated. use an example.

paragraph 3 should talk through your use of that skill in early projects and what you learned and developed through these. Again there should be examples to support all that you say.

paragraph 4 should go on to demonstrate how the skill developed in later projects, again backed by examples, and reflecting back on how this represents moves forward for you from your early position.

paragraph 5 short conclusion

Remember it's only half an hour and you need to range across all your work!  

Question 1a – Skills and Processes

PGPH 1 What projects did you do?

PGPH 2 What skills did you have already and how were these illustrated. Give an example.

PGPH 3 How did your skills develop in year 12?Give examples.

PGPH 4 How did your skills develop in year 13?Give examples.

PGPH 5 Short conclusion

Conventions of real media texts Post-Production Research and Planning Digital TechnologyExplain how you have used, developed or challenged conventions of real media products. (GDS)

Discuss the decisions you made during post-production of two pieces of coursework.

How did your Research and Planning inform your production? (GDS)

How has digital technology aided your creativity to during your coursework productions? (GDS)

Evaluate how you creatively drew upon and/ or developed conventions of real media products.

Discuss the ways in which you have exercised creativity during post-production?

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. (Jan10)

“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? (Exam board example)

In what ways have your productions used or developed conventions adopted from real media products?

In what ways have your productions challenged or played with conventions adopted from real media products?

In other words, is your work generic, or experimental – or both?

Some media producers adopt a style of working that is quite distinctive – explore how work you have produced may have been influenced by your own favourite producers/ directors/ designers/ publishers. Do you have a ‘style’? Are you an auteur?

What would Andrew Goodwin say about your work?

How much of your text was ‘created’ in post-production?

What technologies did you use to modify your raw material? How did this change the meaning of your work?

What transitions/ effects did you apply during post-production? How did you manipulate narrative/ colours/ lighting/ contrast/ brightness/ sound etc during the edit?

How much of your footage ended up ‘on the cutting room floor’ (unused) and why?

How did your research into genre contribute to your production work?

How did your research into audience contribute to your production work?

How did your research into institutions responsible for the production and regulation of the media influence your production work?

What pre-production planning techniques did you employ (scripting, storyboarding, shot-listing, flat-planning etc.)? How effective was your planning – how did it help you in the production phase?

What did you learn from planning your first production that helped you to improve your planning for the second?

How did you use audience feedback to influence your production work while it was in progress?

How has digital technology helped you to capture your ideas?

What benefits do digital technologies offer over analogue? Are there any disadvantages?

How did digital technology influence your work in pre-production, production, and post-production?

How have your skills with digital technology developed, and how has this influenced your productions? 

What role might digital technology plan in the distribution of your work?

How is digital technology changing media production?

Creativity

You will not get a question on creativity on its own. Creativity is ONLY used in conjunction with one of the other key areas. (GDS) What features of your work would you say are original to you? Which media texts and producers have influenced your creative decisions? How successfully does your work engage its audience and provoke its interest? Consider some of the creative choices you had to make during the course of your production – how to use cameras, lighting, dialogue, colour etc.

How did you make these decisions, and how did these contribute to the final production? How did digital technology/ real media texts/ research and planning/ post-production give you an opportunity to express and stretch your creativity?

You must discuss two pieces of coursework in order to show progression and development of

skills.

EXPLANATION ANALYSIS AND ARGUMENT (10)

USE OF EXAMPLES (10)

TERMINOLOGY (5)

Checklist of requirements for success in the exam:

Creative decision making

Process

Progress over time

Specific examples

Reflections on own development

Terminology (theoretical/technical)

It’s about YOU!