Media

Official curriculum and assessment

To start VCE Media revision, open the 2025 Written examination. Use the official resources below to choose a task, attempt it independently and check your response against the available assessment guidance. The practice sequence below explains how to turn that review into a focused next attempt. Confirm the paper’s course and syllabus year before using it.

• 2025 Written examination (PDF)
• 2025 official report or marking guidance (Word document)
• 2024 Written examination (PDF)
• 2024 official report or marking guidance (Word document)

Editorial guidance prepared 3 November 2026.

How to practise this subject

These practice suggestions are editorial guidance from Australian Study Resources.

1. Open the 2025 Written examination, Section A Q1. Task focus — Describes how one media code conveys meaning in an unseen 1922 film still supplied as stimulus. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
2. Open the 2025 Written examination, Section A Q4. Task focus — Develops one production idea in response to a supplied public-broadcaster strategic plan, set out in a proforma of audience, media form, title and idea, and style or genre. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
3. Open the 2025 Written examination, Section A Q6. Task focus — Explains the narrative of the proposed production and how it would achieve the intention set out in the supplied strategic plan. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
4. Record the specific point you missed, write a corrected response, and attempt another question that requires the same skill. Check older material against your current course before reusing it.