A-Level Creative Media
Curriculum:
Click to Expand Year 12 Content:
Unit 1 - Media Representations
Unit 14 - Digital Magazine Production
Key Components:
Key Components:
- Students are expected to know and understand a range of media theories and ideas
- Analysis of unseen media texts
- Students will research the history of printing and produce a magazine front cover and double page spread, tailoring for a particular target audience
Click to Expand Year 13 Content:
Unit 8 - Responding to a Commission
Unit 4 - Pre Production Portfolio
Key Components:
Key Components:
- Students will respond to a set brief and produce planning and pre-production materials
- Development of research skills
- Students will research pre-production methods and create a portfolio to demonstrate the stages of pre-production in a given media sector
Subject Overview:
A-Level students have 5 Creative Media lessons each week.
Students have Creative Media homework set each lesson, however all students in Sixth Form are expected to allocate time outside of lessons for further study.
Assessments:
Unit 14 and Unit 4 are both set and internally marked. These are then audited by a Pearson employee.
Unit 1 - Media Representations
Examined in the Summer Term of Year 12.
- Onscreen exam set and marked by Pearson.
- 2 hours (2 hours 30 mins with Extra Time)
- You will be given up to 4 media products to analyse during the exam but you will also need to refer to media products we have studied in lessons. )
- The number of marks for the paper is 80.
Unit 1 - Responding to a Commission
Examined in the Summer Term of Year 13.
- Set task is released 2 weeks before the exam.
- The exam is out of 72 marks
- 6 hours of external assessment over 2 days.
- You can take 3 pages of notes into the exam.
- 4 tasks to complete: Rationale, Pitch, Proposal and Treatment
