1. FSA Exam Question 1a
"Explain how your understanding of Conventions from Real Media Texts influenced the way you Created your own media products. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these Skills developed over time." (30 mins)
"Explain how your understanding of Conventions from Real Media Texts influenced the way you Created your own media products. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these Skills developed over time." (30 mins)
What could you discuss in an essay on Using Conventions from Real Media Texts?
REMEMBER --> for Q1a You MUST mention AS and A2 production. Therefore, throughout your essay you’re writing about what did you do at AS and how you’ve developed into a more proficient Media student at A2
REMEMBER --> for Q1a You MUST mention AS and A2 production. Therefore, throughout your essay you’re writing about what did you do at AS and how you’ve developed into a more proficient Media student at A2
HOW TO PLAN YOUR REVISION NOTES FOR THIS EXAM ESSAY1) AS level --> List how you used conventions from real Music Magazines in your film opening
FOR EXAMPLE...
- The layout of the front cover
- Costumes and props
- Pose and NVC
- Shot Types and framing (rule of 3rds)
- Title font and style
- Genre and how the style (colours, images etc) suggests it
2) A2 --> List how you used conventions from real Horror Trailers, Magazines and Posters in your own
FOR EXAMPLE...
- The opening credits / film title
- Setting/location
- Costumes and props
- Camerawork and editing
- Title font and style
- Story and how the opening sets it up
- Genre and how the opening suggests it
- How characters are introduced
- Special effects
*for B grade and above remember to justify why these are conventions - what is their purpose by referring to the Real Media Texts you investigated
*for A grade remember you will need to establish the link between Real Media conventions being influences on your Creativity - and your development in using or combing them (hybridity?)
3) Consider how you adhered to or developed or challenged conventions from these real media texts
3) Consider how you adhered to or developed or challenged conventions from these real media texts
Prep: Use your skills audit/circular diagrams (here's an example)
http://www.slideshare.net/DanielAldridge/skills-audit-14187070
2. FSA Exam Question 1b
"Analyse one of your productions in terms of Genre" (considering how it changes over time in order to identify and appeal to audiences)
Past Questions:
January 2010 - Analyse one of your productions in terms of representation.
June 2010 - genre
January 2011 - narrative
June 2011 - audience
January 2012 - representation
June 2012 - media language
January 2013 - narrative
June 2013 - representation
June 2014 - genre
Basic essay structure for 1b (Choose only ONE product to write about):
Para 1 Intro:
para 2: Using the theorists, describe some of the key features of the concept you are being asked to apply. Outline two or three of the theories/ideas of particular writers, relating them to your production.
para 3: Start to apply the concept, making close reference to your product and to other examples to show how the concept is evident in it.
para 4: Show ways in which ideas work in relation to three areas of your product - production, distribution and exchange - and also ways in which those ideas might not apply/could be challenged.
para 5: Conclusion - Sum up by returning to the question and, having discussed key issues, say how your product follows or challenges the conventions of that issue
Tips for each concept from Pete Fraser, Chief Examiner:
January 2010 - Analyse one of your productions in terms of representation.
June 2010 - genre
January 2011 - narrative
June 2011 - audience
January 2012 - representation
June 2012 - media language
January 2013 - narrative
June 2013 - representation
June 2014 - genre
Basic essay structure for 1b (Choose only ONE product to write about):
Para 1 Intro:
1. First, define the concept you have been given in the question. Add a quotation, such as for genre, "Genre is a type" (Daniel Chandler, 2001).
2. Outline the production you've chosen to evaluate.
3. Tell the examiner you're going to discuss (x) number of ideas about the concept. Use no more than 5 theories in your answer (so you'll need to have learnt about 6-7 theories in total).
para 2: Using the theorists, describe some of the key features of the concept you are being asked to apply. Outline two or three of the theories/ideas of particular writers, relating them to your production.
para 3: Start to apply the concept, making close reference to your product and to other examples to show how the concept is evident in it.
para 4: Show ways in which ideas work in relation to three areas of your product - production, distribution and exchange - and also ways in which those ideas might not apply/could be challenged.
para 5: Conclusion - Sum up by returning to the question and, having discussed key issues, say how your product follows or challenges the conventions of that issue
1. Genre
Discuss how this changes over time and how the industry uses it to help find audiences and distribute work, and how YOU have used this knowledge.
Grade A Exemplar: deconstruct paragraph task
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