OCR GCSE Media Studies Creating Media NEA overview quiz quiz

10 per cent of the GCSE (10 raw marks, weighted to 20)

50 per cent of the GCSE (50 raw marks, weighted to 100)

It does not count towards the final GCSE grade at all

30 per cent of the GCSE (30 raw marks, weighted to 60)

Students invent their own brief based on a form they like

The teacher writes a personal brief for each individual student

There is no brief at all, so you may make any product you wish

OCR issues a set of briefs each year, and you choose one

A description of the finished product, written up only after the production is fully complete and submitted

A list of all the equipment, software and materials you used while making the media product

An assessed plan explaining how the production will apply the framework and target its audience

The mark scheme the moderator uses to award the final marks for the production

AO1 (knowledge and understanding)

AO4 (statistical analysis)

It is not formally assessed

AO3 (practical skill)

Stock images downloaded from the internet for the whole product

Other students' work that you adapt and edit into your own product

Your own original assets, within the brief's limits

Existing professional products copied straight into your own design

Nothing about media language, since the Statement only lists the planned production schedule

Only the price the finished product would sell for, and how much profit it might make

Only the equipment and software used, with no mention of codes, conventions or meaning

How the product will use codes and conventions to make the intended meaning for the audience

It wastes time that would be far better spent on actually making the product itself

It is strictly banned by OCR, because copying real products from the same form always counts as cheating

It reveals the conventions audiences expect, so your product can follow them and be convincing

It replaces the Statement of Intent, so you no longer need to write a separate plan

A masthead, the title of a magazine

A barcode printed on a product cover

A regulator such as Ofcom or the BBFC

A storyboard or shot list

Ignoring how real products look and instead inventing a completely new and unfamiliar style of your own from scratch

Copying another student's finished product feature by feature so that yours looks just as polished as theirs does

Using the recognised features of the form (a magazine's layout, a website's navigation) so the product is convincing

Avoiding the audience altogether and making the product purely to please yourself and your own personal taste

With vague self-praise, simply saying it is good without giving any specific or detailed reasons at all

By comparing it only to a friend's product and simply judging whether it looks better or worse than theirs, without any other check

By ignoring the brief entirely and judging it instead on whether you personally enjoyed making it

Against the brief's requirements and the framework: technical quality, conventions, representation and audience appeal

It is not important at all, because the brief only matters in the very last few weeks before the deadline

Because the brief is actually the written exam you sit at the very end of the whole course, so you must memorise every single word of it

Because the framework you study becomes the production decisions for the NEA, and the product must meet every brief requirement

Because the brief never changes from one year to the next, so last year's brief is exactly the same as this year's