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 Strategaethau darllen
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Analysing film and video game language
Learners must identify and analyse how mise-en-scène, editing, sound and cinematography construct meaning in set films, a studied video game and an unseen extract in the on-screen examination. This is close reading of moving image texts, using inference to explain effect on audiences.
Llythrennedd: Deall, ymateb a dadansoddi, Strategaethau darllen, Gwrando am ystyr
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils watch the first two minutes of a family film twice and annotate three stills, writing one sentence each on what the costume, colour or lighting tells us about a character.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils analyse a one-minute unseen clip from a Welsh film, explaining in a point, evidence, explain paragraph how one camera angle and one sound choice create tension.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils answer a timed, exam-style question on an unseen trailer, analysing how editing pace, diegetic and non-diegetic sound and mise-en-scène build meaning for the audience.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 1, Section 1.1.1, page 12
“how to identify and analyse various aspects of film language and how they help construct meaning”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu darllen yn fanwl, gan adnabod a nodi nodweddion testunau, e.e. cyflwyniad, dilyniant, darluniau, ffurfioldeb, geirfa allweddol.
Rwy'n gallu dehongli syniadau nad ydyn nhw wedi'u mynegi'n benodol, e.e. safbwyntiau neu agweddau awdur.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu dangos dealltwriaeth lawn o destunau drwy ddefnyddio sgiliau dehongli, dod i gasgliad a dadansoddi.
Rwy’n gallu deall a dadansoddi ystyr gyffredinol a syniadau sydd ymhlyg.
Cam cynnydd 5
Rwy'n gallu dadansoddi ac ymateb i destunau ac is-destunau, gan ddeall, dehongli a gwerthuso ystyr yn hyderus.
Rwy'n gallu darllen yn fanwl, gan ddadansoddi cynnwys, iaith ac effaith testunau er mwyn dyfnhau fy nealltwriaeth.
Rwy’n gallu defnyddio ystod o strategaethau i ddeall, rhagfynegi a gwerthuso ystyr a syniadau sydd ymhlyg mewn ystod eang o sefyllfaoedd.
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Judging reliability in online news and social media
Learners study fake news, misinformation, citizen journalism and how the same news event is represented across digital platforms. They must read digital texts critically, separating fact and evidence from bias and judging reliability.
Llythrennedd: Deall, ymateb a dadansoddi, Strategaethau darllen
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils sort statements from a mocked-up post about a local event into fact, opinion and rumour and explain which clue gave each away.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils compare how a BBC Cymru Wales article and a user post report the same news story, highlighting loaded words and listing what each leaves out.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils track one current news event across a news website, a broadcast clip and a citizen journalist post, and write a short verdict on which is most reliable and why.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 1, Section 1.3.2, page 16
“what misinformation is and how it spreads on social media”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu gwahaniaethu rhwng ffeithiau, damcaniaethau a barn.
Rwy’n gallu defnyddio sgiliau dehongli a dod i gasgliad er mwyn deall y testun, ac yn gallu ystyried dibynadwyedd yr hyn rwy'n ei ddarllen.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu gwahaniaethu rhwng ffeithiau/tystiolaeth a rhagfarn/dadleuon.
Rwy'n gallu gwerthuso defnyddioldeb a dibynadwyedd testunau.
Cam cynnydd 5
Rwy'n gallu deall ac ystyried yn fanwl sut y gellir dehongli testunau, gan wahaniaethu rhwng ffeithiau/tystiolaeth a rhagfarn/dadleuon.
Rwy'n gallu gwerthuso diben, effaith a dibynadwyedd testunau yn hyderus.
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.