2. Q1a - YOU
 Question 1(a) requires candidates to describe and
evaluate their skills development over the course of
their production work, from Foundation Portfolio to
Advanced Portfolio. The focus of this evaluation must
be on skills development, and the question will require
them to adapt this to one or two specific production
practices. The list of practices to which questions will
relate is as follows:
 Digital Technology
 Creativity
 Research and planning
 Post-production
 Using conventions from real media texts
 In the examination, questions will be posed using one
or two of these categories.

3. Q1b – THE WORK
 Where candidates have produced relevant work
outside the context of their A Level media course, they
are free to additionally refer to this experience.
 Question 1(b) requires candidates 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
 In the examination, questions will be set using one of
these concepts only.

4. G325 exam questions - 1a
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 examples in your answer to show how
these skills developed over time.
2. “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?
3. Discuss 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.

5. G325 exam questions - 1a
o Describe the ways in which your production work was
informed by research into real media texts and how
your ability to use research for production changed
over time.
c Explain how your understanding of the conventions of
existing media influenced the way you created your
own media products. Refer to a range of examples to
show this understanding developed over time.

6. 1b questions
1. “Media texts rely on cultural experiences in order for
audiences to easily make sense of narratives”.
Explain how you used conventional and / or
experimental narrative approaches in one of your
production pieces.
2. Analyse media representation in one of your
coursework productions.
3. Analyse one of your coursework productions in
relation to genre
4. Apply theories of narrative to one of your
coursework productions
5. Analyse one of your coursework productions in
relation to audience

7. Postmodern media
 All questions require a sense of debate –
different definitions of postmodernism, post
modern texts – are they that radically
different? Does the postmodern era actually
exist? Is it especially different to times gone
by?

8. Postmodern media
 Styles of questions
 Q10 – generally focuses on wanting you to discuss
what you understand by the term ‘postmodern
media’ and wanting you to show how to apply this
to a number of texts
 Q11 – more theoretically pointed – wants the
same things as Q10 but will require a more
developed understanding of the relevant theory
and knowledge of how to apply it

9. Postmodern Media – Q10
 Discuss two or more media texts that you would define as
‘postmodern’ and explain why you would give them this
label. Cover at least two media in your answer.
 What is meant by ‘postmodern media’?
 Why are some media products as postmodern?
 Explain how certain kinds of media can be defined as
postmodern.
 How do postmodern media differ from other media?

10. Postmodern Media – Q11
 Consider the ways in which postmodern media challenge
conventional relations between audience and text. Refer
to at least two media forms in your answer.
 Explain why the idea of ‘postmodern media’ might be
considered controversial.
 “Postmodern media blur the line between reality and
representation”. Discuss this idea with reference to
media texts that you have studied.
 Discuss why some people are not convinced by the idea
of postmodern media.
 How far do you accept the idea of postmodern media?