1. Critical Perspectives in Media Question 1: Writing reflectively about your production work

6. Question 1a: Reflecting on the development of your skills This question asks you to consider how you have developed as a maker of media products across your work, including relevant work completed in other subjects (Film, Photography, Art for example) and anything made ‘for fun’ (videos on YouTube for example). So, what is ‘your work’? Make a Timeline of all relevant work completed over the past 2 years adding a brief description of each piece and noting where it can be found for reference. Use arrows to show connections between pieces.

8. Creativity Whilst you’ve had to evaluate your work from the perspective of the other four areas, you have not before had to consider Creativity. Where does creativity come from and what does it mean anyway? Let’s BRAINSTORM! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creativity

9. Self-Evaluation: Creativity How creative do you think you’ve been? Has a set menu of tasks made it easier to be creative or would you have preferred a free choice? Were you pinned down too much by the tasks or did they free you up to be creative within the boundaries of the task? What other factors affected your creativity? Look over your timeline and write 5 bullet points, with explanations and examples, reflecting on your creativity across the course. Remember to include media terminology where appropriate.

10. Homework Look again at all the work you have produced over the past 2 years (referenced in your timeline) and ensure that you have access to it all next lesson. Failure to do this will mean your presence in the lesson next week be largely POINTLESS.

12. One way of approaching this area might be to imagine you DIDN’T have any of this technology available to you and consider how this would have negatively affected your production work. Look for examples in your production work where your use of each type of digital technology has been particularly successful and/or interesting and/or has led to or shown a development. Try to focus your ideas on your development as a media producer and try to trace a path across the two years.

13. Research and Planning This is an area in which some of you have been stronger than others across the past two years. The examiner has no way of knowing what you actually did, so some poetic license can be applied if this area comes up in the exam. What were the most useful Research and Planning activities you undertook in each of your projects and how did they inform the production? Find 10 examples.