I WILL ALSO BE SETTING YOU ONE PRACTICE QUESTION EVERY THURSDAY FOR HOMEWORK – DUE THE FOLLOWING THURSDAY SCHEDULE L1: Candidate exemplars and Q1a – post production (finish) L2: Q1a – creativity L3: Q1a – research and planning L4: Q1a – using conventions from real media texts L5: Q1a – digital technology L6: Q1b – genre L7: Q1b – narrative L8: Q1b – representation L9: Q1b – audience AFTER EVERY LESSON YOU SHOULD FILL IN THE TABLE TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EXAMPLES L10: Q1b – media language L11: Q1a – practice answers L12: Q1b – practice answers L13: Q1a and b – practice paragraphs

THIS WEEK’S PRACTICE QUESTION

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production (50 marks)

You will answer two compulsory questions.

The first requires you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.

The second asks you to identify one production and evaluate it in relation to one theoretical concept.

Question 1(a) Question 1(a) requires you to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.

“Where candidates have produced relevant work outside the context of their A Level media course, they are free to additionally refer to this experience”.

The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development, and the question will require you to adapt this to one or two specific production practices. The list of practices to which questions will relate is as follows:

List of practices Digital Technology • Creativity • Research and planning • Post-production • Using conventions from real media texts

JUNE 2014: duration – 2 hours Section A: 50 marks - 1 hour (theoretical evaluation) Section B: 50 marks - 1 hour (one essay question on postmodernism/collective identity)

POST PRODUCTION EXAMINER REPORT: “Where candidates were able to explain the significance of post-production and apply this to a range of incrementally developing examples from AS and A2 and map post-production decisions to textual outcomes (ie what difference the decision made to the final text), candidates were awarded the higher levels. These candidates gave a wide range of precise examples - describing and evaluating their intentions in relation to, for example, effects/filters and the effect of their post- production decisions on the audience. A surprising number of candidates wrote about pre-production (research and planning) instead of post-production. A further significant minority included feedback and online promotion, re-filming and evaluation as post-production, which examiners disregarded unless there was a clear connection to the ‘core business’ of postproduction.”

WHAT IS POST PRODUCTION? The work done after principal shooting has taken place Editing, colour correction, special effects, etc.  In other words, it is during postproduction that the data that has been captured is cut up, moved around, filtered, and shaped into a finished work.

PRELIMINARY TASK Choose 3 post production techniques you used. Briefly describe how you did this Identify why you used these: Audience Narrative Genre Representation Ideology Language Institution How successful was this?

AS Main task Choose 3 post production techniques you used. Briefly describe how you did this Identify why you used these: Audience Narrative Genre Representation Ideology Language Institution How successful was this?

A2 Ancillaries Choose 3 post production techniques you used. Briefly describe how you did this Identify why you used these: Audience Narrative Genre Representation Ideology Language Institution How successful was this?

A2 Main Task Choose 3 post production techniques you used. Briefly describe how you did this Identify why you used these: Audience Narrative Genre Representation Ideology Language Institution How successful was this?