Exam Revision for A Level Mock

Ho Ho Ho!

Here is the information regarding the A Level Media mock exam.

This will take place at your base site between 7th and the 13th January - please check your timetables carefully!

The exam will be as follows and will be all about Music Videos and your production work so far.

The examination is two hours. Candidates are required to answer two compulsory questions, on their own production work, and 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 theory question marked out of 50.

There are two sections to this paper:

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production (50 marks) 

Section B: Contemporary Media Issues (50 marks) 

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production
Candidates answer two compulsory questions. The first requires them to describe and evaluate their skills development over the course of their production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio. The second asks them to identify one production and evaluate it in relation to one theoretical concept.

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 

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

Section B: Contemporary Media Issues

One question to be answered from a choice of  two questions.

The topic areas require understanding of contemporary media texts, industries, audiences and debates. For the purposes of examination a contemporary media text is defined as being a media text that was published or released within five years of the examination date. 

Through specific case studies, texts, debates and research of the candidates’ choice, prepare to demonstrate understanding of the contemporary issue. There should be emphasis on the historical, the contemporary and the future in relation to the chosen topic, with most attention on the present.  

Merry Christmas and Happy Revising!

Mr Coppard