Every Level 2 Media student in Year 10 and 11 has a 1 hour long exam, that can be re-taken several times.
In this exam you will explore the different digital media sectors and the products they produce. You will understand the range of technological platforms used to distribute media, and how each sector has a common production process.
The exam will include questions about Audience. Underpinning every digital media production is an audience of some kind: gamers, surfers, viewers, readers or listeners. The audience plays an increasingly important role not only in consuming media products, but also in generating them and interacting with their content.
You will understand how media producers consider how to interact and communicate with audiences and how information on the audience can be gathered and interpreted.
Every student should use the revision timetable below to organise the topics they are learning:
It’s important to use a checklist of keywords as well – this is useful if you are making KEYWORD REVISION cards:
The table below shows the sections that may be covered in the exam – copy and paste it into word, and fill it in as you progress:
| Topic | 3 Keywords | ||
| A. Digital Media sectors, products & platforms | |||
| Media sectors
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| Types of digital Media | |||
| Media processes | |||
| Media Platforms & devices | |||
| Media consumption
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| Multimedia technology & consumption | |||
| B. Audiences for Digital Media products | |||
| Types of Audience
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| Audience & producer control | |||
| Audience research | |||
| Audience Profiling
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| C. How audiences engage with digital media products | |||
| Methods of using stylistic Codes | |||
| Interpretation of stylistic codes (as signs) | |||
| Representation in media | |||
| Generic elements
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| Narrative
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Revision techniques – here’s a link to some useful revision tips:
Test yourself using this downloadable revision book:
01. Revision For the Creative Digital Media Exam
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