This document provides guidance for a 1B assignment that requires students to theoretically evaluate one of their coursework productions. Students must choose between analyzing their work in relation to genre, audience, narrative, representation, or media language. They are advised to know 2-3 theorists minimum for their chosen topic and up to 4-5 total. The document also lists past paper topics as examples and recommends revising in the order of genre, media language, audience, narrative, and representation.

1. 1B rules

2. Choose 1
• A) AS only
• B) A2 only
• C) AS or A2 only
• D) AS and A2

3. Choose 1
• C) AS or A2 only
• You choose 1 to write about

4. What are the potential topics?
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.
• 5.

5. What are the potential topics?
• 1. genre
• 2. audience
• 3. narrative
• 4. representation
• 5. media language

6. 1B
• Theoretical evaluation of your production
• What does this mean? Put in other words…

7. 1B
• Evaluate/write about your production and
relate it to theorists/theory
• What does this mean? Put in other words…

8. 1B theory rules
• Must know 2-3 theorists minimum for each
potential topic
• Good to know up to 4-5 as different theories
relate to each other. But be realistic in what
you can rememeber.

9. Past paper topics
Year Question
Jan 10 Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions.
Jun 10 Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to genre.
Jan 11 Apply theories of narrative to one of your coursework productions.
Jun 11 Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to audience.
Jan 12 Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions.
Jun 12 Explain how meaning is constructed by the use of media language in one of your
coursework productions.
Jan 13 Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to the concept of narrative.
Jun 13 Apply the concept of representation to one of your coursework productions.

10. Revise in this order
• Genre
• Media language
• Audience
• Narrative
• representation