Eduqas GCSE Media Studies Creating Media Products NEA overview quiz quiz

10 marks and 10 per cent of the GCSE

120 marks and 100 per cent of the GCSE

60 marks and 30 per cent of the GCSE

It is not assessed and carries no marks

You make absolutely anything you like, with no brief or restrictions at all

You copy an existing media product as closely as you possibly can

An industry regulator decides what every student must make for them

You respond to one brief chosen from a set Eduqas issues each year

Only a deadline by which the finished work has to be handed in to the centre

Only a colour scheme that the finished product has to use

A media form, a genre, a target audience, and detailed requirements

Nothing specific at all, leaving every choice entirely up to you

A simple description of what the finished media product will look like once it has been completely made and finished

A list of all the equipment, software and other resources you plan to use to create the media product

A short summary of the written examination papers you will sit at the very end of the GCSE course

An assessed plan explaining, using the framework, how the production will make meaning and target its audience

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Including a few media features here and there at random across the product, with no real reason or meaning behind any of the choices you make

Copying an existing professional media product as closely as you possibly can rather than making any of your own creative choices at all

Ignoring the target audience completely and instead just making whatever happens to appeal to you personally as the maker of the product

Making every choice deliberate: using media language, constructing representations, following conventions and addressing the audience

It is not useful at all, because your own media product should simply ignore everything that others have already done

It lets you copy them directly into your own product to save time and effort

It identifies the conventions of the form and genre, which shape a credible, audience-focused plan

It replaces the production, so you do not have to make anything of your own

No planning is needed at all, as it is always best to just start making the product straight away

Only buying the most expensive equipment and software you can possibly afford

Only choosing a catchy title for the product before you begin making it

Storyboards, shot lists, page plans and schedules, plus a check against the brief

Only stock photos and found material gathered from the internet

Material taken straight from existing professional media products

Your own original images and assets, within the brief's rules

No images at all, since the production should be made of text only

Technical polish on its own, even if the framework is not really applied to the finished media product at all anywhere

The sheer length or the overall size of the finished product on its own, with nothing else at all ever being taken into account

Using the most expensive professional equipment and the most advanced software that you can possibly get hold of

How well the product applies media language and representation, follows conventions, meets the brief and targets its audience

Describe the finished media product in a vague way throughout, without ever judging how well it actually works

Praise the finished product warmly from start to finish without giving any reasons or any supporting evidence at all

Assess how well the finished product applies the framework, meets the brief and targets its audience, with evidence

Ignore the brief entirely and write only about what you personally enjoyed making

The briefs never change, so any past brief is fine to use

Briefs do not really matter and can safely be ignored

You can simply invent your own brief instead of using one that is issued by Eduqas

The briefs change annually, so only the current one is valid for your series