OCR J834

Creative iMedia

OCR Cambridge National in Creative iMedia J834. R093, the written paper, covered topic area by topic area with quizzes and exam-style questions, plus what the R094 and R097 assessment criteria actually reward.

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15Topics

150Quiz questions

263Exam marks

Distinction starTarget grade

Your route to Distinction star

Revision works when it has an order. Follow these stages rather than opening topics at random.

Learn R093 properly, because it is the only exam

The coursework is marked on what you produce. R093 is a 70 mark written paper and it is the part most students under prepare for. Know the job roles, the documents, the formats and the legislation cold.

Know exactly which document goes with which product

Visualisation diagram for a static product, storyboard for moving image, wireframe and navigation diagram for interactive. Confusing these is the single most common error in this unit.

Answer the command word you were given

Identify and state want a name. Describe wants detail. Explain wants a reason. Discuss and evaluate want a judgement. Writing a description where the paper asked for an explanation loses half the marks.

Justify everything against the brief

The difference between a pass and a distinction is almost never technical skill. It is whether every decision is explained in terms of the client, the audience and the purpose.

Get the licences right from the start

Every asset needs a recorded source and licence. Fixing this at the end means rebuilding, and using an unlicensed image can invalidate the work entirely.

Test with a real person and write down what they struggle with

You cannot evaluate your own product fairly, because you already know how it works. Watching someone else use it produces the evidence the review needs.

Exam unit 11 topics

R093: Creative iMedia in the Media Industry

The written paper: 70 marks, 1 hour 15 minutes. The media industry, the factors that shape product design, pre-production planning, and distribution.

R093 TA1R093 TA1: Sectors, Products and PurposeThe sectors of the media industry, the products each one makes, and the purpose behind every product. The paper opens here almost every year.R093 TA1R093 TA1: Job Roles and Working in the IndustryWho does what, at which stage, and the difference between being employed and being freelance. Expect to name roles and say what they are responsible for.R093 TA2R093 TA2: Client Requirements and the BriefHow a client sets out what they want, the difference between what they say and what they also need, and the constraints every job arrives with.R093 TA2R093 TA2: Target Audience and SegmentationHow audiences are described and divided up, and how each description changes the product. Expect to justify design choices against a named audience.R093 TA2R093 TA2: Research Methods and SourcesPrimary and secondary research, quantitative and qualitative data, and how to tell whether a source can be trusted.R093 TA2R093 TA2: Style, Content, Layout and Media CodesHow the look of a product communicates before a word is read: colour, typography, layout conventions and the codes an audience already understands.R093 TA3R093 TA3: Pre-production DocumentsWhich document goes with which product, what has to be on it, and why planning on paper is cheaper than planning in the software. The most heavily examined topic in R093.R093 TA3R093 TA3: Work Planning and WorkflowBreaking a project into tasks, putting them in an order that works, and planning for the thing that will go wrong.R093 TA3R093 TA3: Legislation, Copyright and PermissionsCopyright, licences, intellectual property, data protection, consent and certification. Named laws and what each one actually stops you doing.R093 TA4R093 TA4: File Formats and PropertiesWhich format for which job, how compression works, and the properties that decide whether a file is fit for purpose. Reliable marks if you know the table.R093 TA4R093 TA4: Distribution Platforms and MediaHow a finished product reaches its audience, what each platform demands in return, and why the platform is a design decision rather than an afterthought.

Coursework 2 topics

R094: Visual Identity and Digital Graphics

Internally assessed. Developing a visual identity from a client brief, planning it, creating the graphics and reviewing them.

R094 TA1 and TA2R094 TA1: Visual Identity and PlanningInterpreting the brief, researching, developing a visual identity and planning the graphic properly. Internally assessed, so this is about what the criteria reward.R094 TA3R094 TA3: Creating and Reviewing Digital GraphicsThe techniques the assessment expects to see evidenced, how to save and export properly, and how to write a review that actually scores.

Coursework 2 topics

R097: Interactive Digital Media

Internally assessed. Planning, creating, testing and reviewing an interactive digital media product.

R097 TA1 and TA2R097 TA1: Planning Interactive Digital MediaInteractive means the user decides what happens, so you are not planning one experience but every route through it. Internally assessed.R097 TA3 and TA4R097 TA3: Creating, Testing and ReviewingBuilding in the right order, evidencing a real range of skills, testing against the plan and writing an honest review.