Question 1a Past Questions

 

Describe how you developed research and planning skills for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to creative decision making.

Describe how you developed your skills in the use of digital technology for media production and evaluate how these skills contributed to your creative decision making.

Describe the ways in which your production work was informed by research into real media texts and how your ability to use such research for production developed over time.

Explain how far your understanding of the conventions of existing media influenced the way you created your own media products.

Describe how your analysis of the conventions of real media texts informed your media practice.

Describe a range of creative decisions that you made in post-production and how these made a difference to the final outcomes. Refer to a range of examples to show how these skills develop over time.

 

Peter Robinson on Creativity

"I define creativity as the process of having original ideas that have value. Creative work in any field often passes through typical phases. Sometimes what you end up with is not what you had in mind when you started. It's a dynamic process that often involves making new connections, crossing disciplines and using metaphors and analogies.

Creativity is about fresh thinking. It doesn't have to be new to the whole of humanity – though that's always a bonus – but certainly to the person whose work it is. Creativity also involves making critical judgments about whether what you're working on is any good, whether it's a theorem, a design or a poem.

There are various myths about creativity. One is that only special people are creative; another is that creativity is just about the arts; a third is that it's all to do with uninhibited "self-expression". None of these is true. On the contrary, everyone has creative capacities; creativity is possible in whatever you do, and it can require great discipline and many different skills."

Peter Robinson  - Guardian