Critical Perspectives In Media

Section A:  Theoretical evaluation of production. (50 marks)

•Question 1(a) requires candidates to describe and evaluate their skills development over the course of their production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio. The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development, and the question will require them to adapt this to one or two specific production practices. The list of practices to which questions will relate is as follows:
•Digital Technology
•Creativity
•Research and planning
•Post-production
•Using conventions from real media texts

Section A:  Theoretical evaluation of production.

•Question 1(b) requires candidates to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept. The list of concepts to which questions will relate is as follows:

•Genre

•Narrative

•Representation

•Audience

•Media language

Section B: Contemporary Media Issues (50 marks)

•One question to be answered from a choice of six topic areas offered by OCR.

–There will be two questions from each topic area. 

Section B: Contemporary Media Issues•You will be investigating••Media and Collective identity

Media and Collective Identity

–How do the contemporary media represent: nations, regions and ethnic / social / collective groups of people in different ways?

–How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods?

–What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?

–To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’

Candidates may analyse the representation of and / or the collective identity of one or more group(s) of people. 

•National cinema, television representations, magazines and… gender, representations of youth and youth culture, post-9/11 representations of Islam, absence / presence of people with disability in two media.