A-Level Creative Media
Curriculum:
Click to Expand Year 12 Content:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
Unit 1: Exploring Business
Unit 3: Personal and Business Finance
Unit 1: Exploring Business
Click to Expand Year 13 Content:
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
Unit 2: Developing a Marketing Campaign
Unit 8: Recruitment and Selection
Unit 8: Recruitment and Selection
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
