Questions Sample Question 1 (a) Digital technology turns media consumers into media producers .

. In your own exp erience, how has your creativity developed through using digital technology to c omplete coursework productions? 1 (b) Media texts rely on cultural experiences in order for audiences to easily make sense of narratives . Explain how you used conventional and/or experimental n arrative approaches in one of your production pieces. January 2010 Question 1(a) Describe how you developed research and planning skills for media produc tion and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making. Ref er to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time. 1(b) Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions.

June 2010 Question 1(a) Describe the ways in which your production work was informed by research into real media texts and how your ability to use such research for production developed over time. Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to Genre

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January 2011 Question 1(a) Describe how you developed your skills in the use of digital technolo gy 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. 1(b) Apply theories of narrative to one of your coursework productions.

June 2011 Question 1(a) Explain how far your understanding of the conventions of existing media influenced the way you created your own media products. Refer to a range of exam ples in your answer to show how this understanding developed over time. 1(b) Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to the concept of audience January 2012 Question 1(a) Describe how your analysis of the conventions of real media texts inform ed your own creative media practice. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time. 1 (b) Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions.

Be ready for a question on anything! I assume it won t be on conventions and represe ntation again but don t bet on it!!!