The Exam - What's It All About?


The A2 exam is worth 50% of your A2 grade and 25% of your final A-level grade and is made up of 2 separate sections
SECTION A - THEORETICAL EVALUATION OF PRODUCTION WORK
Question 1a
A question that requires students to describe and evaluate the development of their skills over the course of their AS Production work to their A2 Production work.
The question will ask students to focus their answer on ONE OR TWO of the following issues:
  • Digital Technology
  • Creativity
  • Research and Planning
  • Post-Production
  • Using conventions of real media texts
Candidates can also choose to discuss media products they have made outside of school during these two years.
Your response to this question will be marked out of 25.
QUESTION 1b
This question will require students to select EITHER their AS production OR their A2 production (whichever makes more sense for the question) and evaluate it in terms of one of the following media concepts.
  • Genre
  • Narrative
  • Representation
  • Audience
  • Media Language
Your response to this question will be marked out of 25.
SECTION B - CONTEMPORARY MEDIA ISSUES
One question to be answered from a choice of six topic areas offered by OCR. There will be two questions from each topic area.
The topic areas require understanding of contemporary media texts, industries, audiences and debates. The topic we prepare for is Media In The Online Age.
You must, through specific case studies, texts, debates and research of the your own choice, prepare to demonstrate understanding of this contemporary issue.
This understanding must combine knowledge of at least two media and a range of texts, industries, audiences and debates where there would be emphasis on the historical, the contemporary and the future in relation to the chosen topic, with most attention on the present.
Your response to this question will be marked out of 50.

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