G325 Section A Revision
- 1. G325 SECTION A EXAM REVISION SECTION A: THEORETICAL EVALUATIONS SECTION B: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY
- 6. TIMINGS Section A Question 1A (25 Marks): 25-30 Minutes Question 1B (25 Marks): 25-30 Minutes Section B Question (50 Marks): 60 Minutes
- 7. QUESTION 1A
- 8. BREAKDOWN OF SECTION A QUESTION 1A • Section A, question 1a of the A2 exam is worth 25 marks • You will be evaluating your AS and A2 coursework in terms of the skills you have developed over the 2 years • You will have 30mins to answer this question
- 9. SECTION A: SKILLS EVALUATION OF PRODUCTION Question 1(a) Describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work – this can include the preliminary tasks, your actual c/w, ancillary tasks and any other pieces you have created in the past year. In the exam 1 or more of the following areas will be selected for you to write about: •DigitalTechnology •Creativity •Research and planning •Post-production •Using conventions from real media texts
- 10. Jan 2010 June 2010 Jan 2011 June 2011 Jan 2012 1) 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 example in your answer to show how these skills developed over time 2) 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 3) 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. 4) 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. 5) Describe how your analysis of the conventions of real media texts informed your own creative practise. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills have been developed over time.
- 11. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY- HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND ONLINE • What hardware did you use and why? What were the pros/cons? • What software did you use and why? What were the pros/cons? • How has the internet supported your skills development?
- 12. CREATIVITY- RESEARCH, PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION, EVALUATION • Discuss how you were creative at each stage • Some areas are obviously easier to discuss • Consider emphasising how you may have been more creative in yourYear 13 productions • WhatWentWell? • Even Better If?Were there any limitations?
- 13. Research and Planning – • Discuss what research you did and why it was important in creating a successful product? • Discuss what planning you did and why it was important in creating a successful product? • What Went Well? • Even Better If? Remember to emphasise the research and planning of all productions completed
- 14. Post Production – Editing (Photoshop, Final Cut, Etc.) • Discuss what you did at the post production stage of your coursework • Highlight the hardware and particularly the software used and why • What Went Well? • Even Better If? Remember to emphasise the post production stage of all productions completed
- 15. Using conventions from real media texts – • Discuss how you followed the codes and conventions or real media texts • Highlight importance of research and planning • Highlight importance of audience feedback • What Went Well? • Even Better If?
- 16. RESPONSE STRUCTURE Research Planning Construction (Main, Preliminary, Ancillary) Post Production Evaluation
- 18. QUESTION 1B
- 19. PROMPT TASK In your green booklets create a series of prompts for each possible question area:
- 20. Question 1(b) requires you to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. The list of concepts to which questions will relate is as follows: • Genre • Narrative • Representation • Audience • Media language You will need to learn all the relevant theorists for each one of these in order to use them in the exam.
- 21. THEORISTS The following slides will highlight some of the key theorists related to each subject area. This list is not exhaustive and you must be accomplishing your own research of theories that can be applied to the productions you are discssing.
- 22. Audience Theory Stuart Hall Dyer’s Utopian theory Morley’s Research Denis McQuail Hypodermic Needle Cultivation theory
- 23. Representatio n Theory Stereotypes Dominant ideology Hegemony Perkins Baudrillard Laura Mulvey Pluralism
- 24. Genre Theory David Buckingham Nicholas Abercrombie Christine Gledhill John Fiske Andrew Goodwin Stephan Prince Steve Neale Barry Keith Grant Dennis McQuail Rick Altman
- 26. Coursework Mise-en-scene Sound Camera Editing • Clothing • Facial expressions • Props • Lighting • Diegetic conversations (emphasising people’s attitudes) • Non-diegetic sound (rhythm of music) • Angles enforcing subordinate/dominate characters. • Composition of characters in the shot (how are they stood? Why are they stood like that? • Quick cuts to quicken pace? • Wipes/fades/dissolve? • Timings • Effects? • How are the technical (i.e. camera) and symbolic (i.e. costume) codes used to communicate meaning? • How can you use semiotics to deconstruct the text? • In what way could you say the text is conventional with regard to it’s form?
- 27. GREEN BOOKS • Highlight the key theorists related to the area • Highlight the structure you will adopt • Annotate emphasising points of reference