Area of Study Question

Research & Planning Describe how you developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how
1 these skills contributed to creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples.
Real Media Texts Describe the ways in which your production work was informed by research into real media texts
2 and how your ability to use such research for production developed over time.
Describe how you developed your skills in the use of digital technology for media production and
Digital Technology evaluate how these skills contributed to your creative decision making. Refer to a range of examples
3 in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.
Explain how far your understanding of the conventions of existing media influenced the way you
Real Media Texts created your own media products. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how this
4 understanding developed over time.

Real Media Texts Describe how your analysis of the conventions of real media texts informed your own creative media
5 practice. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how these skills developed over time.
Describe a range of creative decisions that you made in post-production and how these decisions
Post-Production made a difference to the final outcomes. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how
6 these skills developed over time.
Research & Planning Explain how your research and planning skills developed over time and contributed to your media
7 production outcomes. Refer to a range of examples in your answer.
Digital Technology Explain how your skills in the creative use of digital technology developed over time. Refer to a range
8 of examples from your media productions in your answer.
Describe the most important post-production decisions you made for your different media
9 Post-Production productions and explain why these decisions were significant. Refer to a range of examples in your
answer to show how your skills in post-production developed over time.
 Explain the most significant ways in which your media productions were informed by your
10 Real Media Texts understanding of the conventions of real media texts. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to
demonstrate how this understanding over time.

Explain the importance of research and planning to your media production outcomes and
Research & Planning how your skills in this area developed over time. Refer to a range of examples from your
11 media production process in your answer.

Real Media Texts Assess the effectiveness of the ways in which your research into real media texts led to specific media
12 production outcomes. Refer to a range of examples from your media productions in your answer.
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1 Representation Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions.
2 Genre Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to genre.
3 Narrative Apply theories of narrative to one of your coursework productions.

4 Audience Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to the concept of audience.

5 Representation Analyse media representation in one of your coursework productions.

Explain how meaning is constructed by the use of media language in one of your
6 Media Language coursework productions.

7 Narrative Analyse one of your coursework productions in relation to the concept of narrative

8 Representation Apply the concept of representation to one of your coursework productions.

9 Genre Apply the concept of genre to one of your coursework productions.
10 Narrative Apply the concept of narrative to one of your coursework productions.
Analyse the ways in which one of your coursework productions communicates
Media Language meaning to the audience through media language.
Audience Apply the concept of audience to one of your media productions.
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1 With reference to any one group of people that you have studied, discuss how their identity has
been ‘mediated’.
2 Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people that you have studied.
3 “The media do not construct collective identity; they merely reflect it”. Discuss.
4 “Media representations are complex, not simple and straightforward”. How far do you agree with
this statement in relation to the collective group that you have studied?
5 Discuss how one or more groups of people are represented through the media.
6 Explain the role played by the media in the construction of collective identity.
7 Analyse the ways in which the media represent groups of people.
8 What is collective identity and how is it mediated?
9 Discuss the different ways in which groups of people are represented by media. You may refer to one group
of people or more in your answer.
10 How do media representations influence collective identity? You may refer to one group of people or more.
11 Discuss the social implications of media in relation to collective identity.
12 Analyse the ways in which at least one group of people is ‘mediated’.
13 “Media representations are just reflections of reality, not constructions or distortions.”
14 Explain what is meant by ‘collective identity’ and the role of media in its construction.
15 Analyse the impact of media representation on the collective identity of one or more groups of people.
16 Compare the different ways in which one or more groups of people are represented by media.
17 Media and collective identity: how does one affect the other?
18 "Media simply represent collective identity, they don't create it." How far do you agree with this statement?

19 Analyse the ways in which media representations today construct collective identity, with reference to one or more group(s) of people
you have studied.
 "The media do not construct reality, they merely offer a window on the world." Discuss this statement with reference to the
20 representation of collective identities
21 How is the identity of one or more group(s) of people affected by media representations?
How diverse are the contemporary media representations of one or more group(s) of people you
22 have studied?
Our ideas about other people are increasingly constructed by the media.' Discuss with reference to one or more group(s) you have
23 studied.
Evaluate the claim that for society to be fair, all social groups would have to represented equally in the media.Refer to one or more
24 group(s) you have studied.
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