Critical Perspectives in Media: An Exam In Two Parts
Candidates are required to answer three compulsory questions:
Two questions on their own production work
One question from a choice of six topic areas.
The unit is marked out of a total of 100, with the two questions on production work marked out of 25 each, and the media topic question marked out of 50.
There are two sections to this paper:
Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Student Production (50 marks)
Section B: Contemporary Media Issues (50 marks) discussing one from this list:
- Contemporary Media Regulation
- Global Media
- Media & Collective Identity (Representations)
- Media in the Online Age
- Post–modern Media
- ‘We Media’ & Democracy
Weeks 1 – 2 Section A - Question 1(a) Writing about skills development
Learning outcomes: lecture/discussion outlining what is required for this exam – as above. Understand what this section of the exam requires.
In question 1(a) students are asked to write about their work for the Foundation Portfolio and Advanced Portfolio units. Students need to describe how they developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making. They should refer to a range of examples in their answers to show how these skills developed over time.
The value of each student’s...
