GCSE Digital Media and Film
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg CBAC.
Digital Media and Film is a high literacy GCSE: learners analyse film, game and news texts including an unseen extract, write comparative and evaluative answers, research and write a Welsh industry case study, script productions and keep a reflective log. Numeracy is light and never calculated in the examination, limited to reading audience and success figures and handling timings for editing, trailers and release schedules. The single biggest thing Key Stage 3 should build is analytical writing about moving image, where pupils name a technique precisely and explain its effect on an audience.
- Corff dyfarnu
- CBAC
- Lefel
- Level 1 and Level 2
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2026
- Faint o waith llythrennedd
- Uchel
- Faint o waith rhifedd
- Isel
- Manyleb
- Agor y fanyleb
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
- Unit 1: Exploring key concepts and issues: On-screen examination 1 hour 30 minutes, 60 marks, 30%
- Unit 2: Distribution and exhibition strategies of digital media and film industries in Wales: Non-examination assessment, portfolio based, 18 hours, 72 marks, 30%
- Unit 3: Creating digital media and film content: Non-examination assessment, assignment based, no time restriction, 96 marks, 40%
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Eglurder a geirfa
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Performing voiceovers, adverts and presenter pieces
The audio-visual or audio production options include an influencer extract and a radio or podcast audio advert, which need scripted speech delivered with clear expression for a target audience. Collaboration and giving and receiving feedback are also named learning experiences.
Llythrennedd: Eglurder a geirfa, Deall, ymateb a dadansoddi
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils read a film trailer voiceover script aloud in pairs, marking where to pause and which words to stress, then record it.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils record a 30-second podcast advert for a school film club, adapting tone and vocabulary for Year 6 listeners.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils present a one-minute pitch for a new streaming series in role as a presenter, then take two questions from the class.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 3, Section 3.1.2, page 23
“radio/podcast audio advert”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy’n gallu siarad yn glir, gan adnabod yr iaith briodol ar gyfer gwahanol gynulleidfaoedd a dibenion, a chan amrywio fy mynegiant, geirfa, tôn ac ystumiau i ennyn diddordeb y gynulleidfa.
Rwy'n gallu darllen amrywiaeth eang o destunau ar goedd gyda mynegiant, gan amrywio goslef, llais a chyflymder.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy’n gallu siarad yn glir, gan ddewis ac addasu fy iaith yn briodol ar gyfer ystod o gynulleidfaoedd a dibenion, a chan gyfleu ystyr yn effeithiol i’r gynulleidfa.
Rwy’n gallu argyhoeddi wrth gyfleu ystyr mewn ystod o gyd-destunau gan ennyn diddordeb llawn y gynulleidfa.
Cam cynnydd 5
Rwy'n gallu siarad yn rhugl ac yn hyderus, gan ddefnyddio ystod o dechnegau, edrychiadau ac ystumiau.
Rwy'n gallu cyflwyno syniadau a materion er mwyn bodloni gofynion gwahanol gynulleidfaoedd.
Da gwybod
- Unit 1 is an 'On-screen examination: 1 hour 30 minutes' worth 60 marks, with 'objective responses, short and extended answers' including 'unseen media works' (Summary of assessment, page 5), so pupils type their extended answers.
- The specification awards no separate marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar or accuracy of language, and says nothing about calculators, dictionaries or word limits (checked across the whole specification).
- Unit 2 is a portfolio under time control: 'Learners will have 18 hours to complete the assessment' (Section 3.2, page 27), so research and writing must be efficient.
- Unit 3 has 'no restriction on the amount of time candidates spend on the assessment' and requires learners to 'Produce a reflective log' alongside two production pieces (Section 3.2, pages 27 and 28).
- Assessment Objective 3, 'Reflect on, analyse and evaluate own work and the work of others', carries 30% of the qualification, split 15% Unit 1, 10% Unit 2 and 5% Unit 3 (Section 3.1, page 26).
- Pre-production planning such as 'storyboards, scripts, hand drawn or digital mock-ups' may be handwritten or digital (Unit 3, Section 3.1.1, page 23).
- Appendix A (page 32) flags literacy (listening, reading, speaking, writing) in all three units but flags numeracy only against the non-examination units.
Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill
At Key Stage 3 this reading and writing work overlaps closely with English film and media units, and the news reliability work links to Humanities and Digital Technology, so a shared analytical paragraph frame across departments would help.
Ffynhonnell: WJEC GCSE Digital Media and Film specification, teaching from 2026, for award from 2028, Version 2, September 2026.