Unit 2 Overview: Understanding The Media - Controlled Assessment Unit
What students have to do…
In Unit 2 candidates will produce:
- Assignment 1 - Introductory assignment with two tasks
- Assignment 2 - Two tasks about cross-media platforms
- Assignment 3 - Practical production and evaluation
- Each assignment chosen from a different bank of assignments.
- Students work individually. For assignment 3, groups of candidates may collaborate but their evaluative responses must be their own.
- Students must cover three discrete media forms/platforms.
Suggested Timescale
Assignment 1 - 10 lessons
Assignment 2 - 10 lessons
Assignment 3 - 13 lessons
Assignment Bank 1
- Radio
- Moving Image
- Advertising & Marketing
- Web-based Media
- Packaging of DVDs
- Promotion of Music
- Children’s Comics
As each platform can only be used once, it is worth considering what your students are going to do for the production - Assignment 3 – perhaps working backwards from there.
ASSIGNMENT 1 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA
AQA suggests Assignment 1 is taught and completed over approx 10 lessons.
Students are required to…
1. Select one assignment from Assignment Bank 1 writing approx 500 words for task 1 working primarily with the key concepts of media language and audience and secondarily representation and institutions.
2. Task 2 is a pre-production task with reference to...
