SECTION A:1A

MIND MAP

Key Questions

1. What is Q1a about?

2. What topic/s may you have to discuss

3. Which production will this question be about?

4. How will you structure your response?

Today’s menu

• Mind map• Overview of 1a, structure, sample

questions• Plan ideas for each topic• Beach Ball

Rubric for 1a)Evaluate skills development across media

production work over two years of ‘A’ Level or

any other media production within the areas of:

• Digital Technology• Creativity• Research and Planning• Post Production• Use of Real Media Texts

Question can be based on one or two of the areas.

Marks and Timing

All that does seem a lot to write in 30 minutes.

But to get the marks you need examples from your work.

So – could limit the examples to 3 per section (e.g. 3 digital technologies at AS at pre-production stage and at A2 3 development examples)

Q1a) Structure...

It is possible to apply a structure/plan for this question by using the three elements of the production process (which is what the whole question is essentially asking the students to evaluate).

- Pre-Production

- Production

- Post-Production

essay introductions for 1a

In terms of essay introductions for 1a), use a three part structure

1. Answer or give point of view to question.

2. Outline briefly what you made across both years.

3. Explain to the examiner how you are going to structure your essay.

Theory

It isn’t vital that there is theory but if it helps support

your answer then the application of it can be applied.

i.e. genre iconography in reference to the use of conventions from real texts.

Q1a) Previous 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.

Describe the ways in which your production work was informed by research into real media texts and how your ability to use such research for production developed over time.

Q1a) Previous Questions

Describe how you developed your skills in the use of digital technology for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to your creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.

ENSURE you move quickly from description (so the reader knows what you did) to analysis/evaluation/reflection, so the examiner starts to understand what you learnt from it.

Revision task

On cards or post-its, ensure you have a list of answers to these questions:

What production activities have you done?

What digital technology have you used?

In what ways can the work you have done be described as creative?

What different forms of research did you do?

What conventions of real media did you need to know about?

What do you understand by ‘post-production’ in your work?

Q1a) Tasks for now

You need practise at writing about these areas in a short space of time.

Have a go at planning your answers for how you have developed in each of the five areas.

• Research & Planning• Creativity• Using conventions from real texts• Digital Technology• Post-Production

Key Questions

1. What is Q1a about?

2. What topic/s may you have to discuss

3. Which production will this question be about?

4. How will you structure your response?

Homework

• Plan/revise your responses for both questions

• Submit Audience essay for Q1b 23rd April

BEACH BALL