Introduction

The purpose of this unit is to assess your knowledge and understanding of media concepts, contexts and critical debates, through understanding of one contemporary media issue and your ability to evaluate your own practical work in reflective and theoretical ways.

The examination is two hours. You have to answer two compulsory questions on your own production work, and one question from a choice of six topic areas. The unit is marked out of a total of 100, with the two questions on production work marked out of 25 each, and the media theory question marked out of 50.

There are two sections to this paper:

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production (50 marks)

Section B: Contemporary Media Issues (50 marks)