Assessment 1: learner response



1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).

WWW: A fair effort for your first A-Level Media Assessment. Attempting to engage with the questions with relevant analysis e.g Q1.

EBI: Avoid trying to explain theory but instead apply it to your analysis. For Q2 - you need to reference both figures. For Q3, ensure you reference theories of genre. 

2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment.

1.Should have talked about more of narrative codes like Barthes and Todorov.
2. Analysis of both products needed.
3. Good analysis of the product that is clear and sometimes engages with the nuanced aspects of how narrative codes are used. 

3) Read this exemplar response from a previous Year 12 (an A grade) - note this was a slightly different paper in terms of the question wording and also had an additional question 4 (we've updated it to better reflect recent exams). Identify at least one potential point for questions 1-3 from this student's paper that you could have mentioned in your assessment. 

1: Use Barthes
2: Escaping from their environment to go on tod live better lives
3: Halls Reception theory

4) Did you get any media terminology or theory wrong in the assessment? Make a note of it here for future revision, including theories/terminology that you could have used but didn't.

Neale and Abercromie for question 3 specifically. 

5) Identify your weakest question and write three bullet points that would improve on your original response. Use the mark scheme and exemplar paper to identify these points - particularly focusing on the anticipated content and the top level descriptors.

1. To use more media terminology.
2. Interpret film posters and posters more so I know what to write about in my answers. 
3. To revise my theorists more clearly. 

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