2. TWO UNITS:
1. G324: Advanced Portfolio in
Media (Coursework)
2. G325: Critical Perspectives
(Exam)
Each is worth 50% of the final grade
3. Coursework Details
• 1.G324: Advanced Portfolio
in Media
• Promotion Package (60
marks)
• Evidence of planning &
research (20 marks)
• Evaluation (20 marks)
4. The Promotion Package consists of
THREE products:
Main Task (40 marks):
A music video – no more than 3
mins long
2 Ancillary Tasks (10 marks each):
1. a digipak for the album’s release
2. a magazine advertisement for the
digipak
(60 marks in total)
5. You will use Photoshop and
Adobe Illustrator and In-Design
to make the ancillary texts
A planning and research blog
and evaluation are required
6. Evaluation questions (only 4 this time!)
•In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
•How effective is the combination of your main
product and ancillary texts?
•What have you learnt from your audience
feedback?
•How did you use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
7. So your main aim is to create advertising
materials for a music promo in order to
construct an audience for it.
The examiners want there to a be a clear
RELATIONSHIP between all 3 products
They want you to create a BRAND IDENTITY
8. IMPORTANT NOTE:
The G325 exam has 2 sections
In the first section of the exam you
will be writing about your AS & A2
COURSEWORK
9. Module 2
G325: Critical Perspectives
EXAM 2 Hours
There are two sections to this
paper:
Section A: Theoretical
Evaluation of Production (50
marks)
Section B: Contemporary
Media Issues (50 marks)
10. Section A has two compulsory questions:
Question 1a asks you to describe and
evaluate your skills development over the
course of all your production work, from AS
to A2.
In the examination, questions will be posed
using one or two of the following
categories:
11. • Digital Technology
• Creativity
• Research and planning
• Post-production
• Using conventions from real
media texts
.
12. Question 1b asks you to select
one production (i.e. either AS
or A2 work) and evaluate it in
relation to one of the
following media concepts:
•Genre
•Narrative
•Representation
•Audience
•Media language
13. Section B: Contemporary Media
Regulation
• What is the nature of contemporary media
regulation compared with previous practices?
• What are the arguments for and against
specific forms of contemporary media
regulation?
• How effective are regulatory practices?
• What are the wider social issues relating to
media regulation?
,
14. Candidates might explore combinations of:
Film censorship, the regulation of advertising, the Press and
regulation / control, computer / video game classification,
the regulation of online media, social networking and
virtual worlds, contemporary broadcasting and political
control, the effects debate and alternative theories of
audience, children and television, violence and the media
or a range of other study contexts relating to the regulation
of contemporary media. Regulation might be researched in
regard to media content
