A2 Media Studies Brief

Advanced Portfolio in Media (100 marks)- Produce a main artefact, two ancillary artefacts and an accompanying blog containing our research, planning and evaluation materials.

Critical Perspectives in Media (100 marks)- An exam in which we will need to show our understanding of media theory as it applies to our own product and to real media texts.


Advanced Portfolio

Multimedia production based in the Music Industry.

Create a promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:
• A website homepage for the band
• A cover for its release on DVD
• A magazine advertisement for the DVD

The deadline for production work is the end of the Autumn term (December).


Critical Perspectives in Media

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

Question 1a will involve analysing your own product using the following concepts:
• Digital Technology
• Creativity
• Research and planning
• Post-production
• Using conventions from real media texts


Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Question 1b will involve analysing your own product using the following concepts:
• Genre
• Narrative
• Representation
• Audience
• Media language


Section B: Contemporary Media Issues

Question 2 will involve discussing a key media concept using a range of texts from two media.

We will be looking at the topic of Media and Collective Identity

Specifically, we will be looking at how the notion of Britishness is constructed by the media that we consume, using examples from:
• British crime cinema
• British broadcast news