These tips are from Vicky Allen, an OCR Examiner.
For Question 1(a) you have to describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work, from Foundation Portfolio to Advanced Portfolio.
The focus of this evaluation must be on skills development, and the question will ask you to adapt this to one or two specific production practices.
You should aim to write about 750 words for this answer.
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You need to prepare FIVE essays to be ready for the examination. You only have 30 minutes to write this section, so your answers do not need to be long. Make notes on:
For each essay, prepare 3-4 examples for each of THREE sections:
Remember, you can use examples of work you have done outside your production portfolio, too, such as other videos you have made at home or at school, or artwork you have done. You must focus on PROGRESSION over the course - the skills you developed.
- Digital Technology
- Creativity
- Research and planning
- Post-production
- Using conventions from real media texts
- Pre-production
- Production
- Post-production
Remember, you can use examples of work you have done outside your production portfolio, too, such as other videos you have made at home or at school, or artwork you have done. You must focus on PROGRESSION over the course - the skills you developed.
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Basic essay structure for 1a (Write about your AS and A2 productions):
Paragraph 1 should be an introduction which explains which projects you did. It can be quite short, but should frame your response. Explain what you did and frame the essay with a quotation from a theorist that relates to the question.
For Paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5, pick up a skill area and suggest something about your starting point with it - what skills did you have already and how were these illustrated. Use examples. Follow this with ways you improved on those skills at A2, perhaps by using a more advanced piece of software or learning more advanced tools, always reflecting on how this improved your creative work.
Unless the topic is post-production you should cover three areas: pre-production, production and post-production. You could use those areas for a paragraph on each.
Paragraph 6 Short conclusion relating back to the question and summing up key skills you have developed in that area over the AS and A2 course. Frame your essay with another quotation from another theorist that relates to the question and confirms what you said in your introduction.
Remember it's only half an hour and you need to range across all your work!
For Paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5, pick up a skill area and suggest something about your starting point with it - what skills did you have already and how were these illustrated. Use examples. Follow this with ways you improved on those skills at A2, perhaps by using a more advanced piece of software or learning more advanced tools, always reflecting on how this improved your creative work.
Unless the topic is post-production you should cover three areas: pre-production, production and post-production. You could use those areas for a paragraph on each.
Paragraph 6 Short conclusion relating back to the question and summing up key skills you have developed in that area over the AS and A2 course. Frame your essay with another quotation from another theorist that relates to the question and confirms what you said in your introduction.
Remember it's only half an hour and you need to range across all your work!
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