The document provides guidance for students taking media exams, including tips and examples of past exam questions and responses. It emphasizes critically reflecting on one's work, considering all skills and concepts covered, practicing all topic areas, and analyzing examples from multiple media texts rather than just one. For the Section A exam, it notes genres, representations, narratives, audiences and languages could come up, and responses should choose one topic in advance and apply critical distance. For Section B, it lists potential topic areas and advises answering the specific question set while drawing on examples from two or more media.

1. Resources

2. all linked on the conference blog

11. Aberystwyth film blogs
film a week for 8 weeks

18. Blogs need to show a journey
of research and planning leading to construction

19. Evaluation= Creative Reflection

20. NOT

21. X

22. Presenting work

23. YES!

26. 56 posts- very positive!

27. Evaluation
• critical, creative reflection
• enable different skills to be assessed
• allows responses in different ways

28. Marking standards

29. • still too generous, especially on
construction
• for Level 4 must be genuinely
excellent (as below)

35. G322 AS Exam

36. won’t always be gender!
Section A

37. 2013 exam (and thereafter) can be a US Drama

38. Section B

39. examples should be contemporary

40. G325 A2 exam

41. 1a

42. what can come up

43. digital
1a creativity
technology
Text
conventions
research post-
of real media
production

44. what should be considered

45. all development
all skills
production over time
work
Text
process examples
reflection

46. points to remember

47. practice write
keep
all five about
records
topics all work
from Student!
start practice
Text to time
to now
process
prepare for
crossover and examples
questions progress

48. January exam:
level 4 response on digital technology and creativity
(download pdf from conference blog)

49. good intro
program
technique
why used
Terms
what done
why

50. technology
what done
why
impact
another program
term
how used
Absences: specific reference to creativity- but implied throughout;
references to online use; more achievement than reflection

51. 1b

52. what can come up

53. representation
narrative
1b
Text
media
genre audience language

54. what should be considered

55. one
choose
production
1b in advance
Text
adapt to analyse NOT about
the finished process
question text

56. points to remember

57. have two apply to practice
critical finished all five
positions text concepts
critical The practice
distance Work to
Text
time
analyse each main task
others’ work works best examples

58. January exam:
level 4 response on narrative
(pdf on blog)

59. Intro
research on
narrative;
terminology
more terminology

60. ref to theory
and another
more key terms
But not wholly integrated and written more as if the video
was made to fit the theory rather than a distanced analysis of the finished text

61. Section B
Media in the Online Age
Collective Identity
WeMedia and Democracy
Global Media
Contemporary Media Regulation
Postmodernism

63. Egypt
WeMedia and Democracy
Online Age
Global Media
Collective Identity

65. Lady Gaga
Postmodernism
Regulation
Online Age

67. Call of Duty
Postmodernism
Regulation
Online Age

69. Dream School
Collective Identity
Online age

71. Alan Partridge
Online Age

72. answer the question set
choose the one that suits best

73. One hour: 50 marks
EAA 20, EG 20, T10
examples from two media or more

74. past, PRESENT and future

75. at least two critics/theorists
explained and applied
challenge the theory!

76. Explain the theory accurately
Analyse the ideas
Make an argument
Support with EXAMPLES