6. Blog feedback and learner response

 WWW: Your blog is 100% up-to-date which is brilliant to see – you’ve made a great start in Media. I like the answers to your first blog task – particularly your very honest and blunt response that you didn’t actually pick Media! I hope you are enjoying the course so far and certainly your answers in many of your blogposts show an engagement with the text that is exactly what I’m looking for. A good example of this is your opening two questions in the Semiotics work on the short film English. You’ve picked out the different meanings/interpretations of the two characters perfectly – exactly what I was looking for. I also totally agree with your answer that Israel/Palestine is the big story of 2024 – that is also a very interesting story from a media perspective in terms of how the two sides of the conflict are represented in Western media. Keep up the good work and let’s aim for that B+ grade!

 

EBI: Two areas to improve: firstly, a simple one – make sure you are numbering each task in your blogpost as this will make it easier for both of us to keep track of your work and keep the tracker green. Secondly, if you want to aim for that B+ grade we need to be adding depth and detail to your blog answers. If you take the Reading an image work as an example, you could add more depth to your second advertising text in particular. No need to go back and add to that task but one to consider in the future. The key to top-grade work is being able to discuss a variety of possible responses or ideas.

 

LR: Create a blogpost on your Media 1 Exam blog called ‘Blog feedback and learner response’, copy this feedback in and then complete the following learner response:

 

Reflect on your work in A Level Media so far. What is your strongest piece of work? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?

LR

I believe that my strongest piece of work in media so far is my most recent work which was the blog task on reception theory as I believe that it was my most detailed piece of work as I put time and care into it, I believe it presents all the skills I've learned in media so far.

I believe my weakest piece of work was my media consumption bog task as many of the questions didn't apply to me so it was very minimal and I didn't put in a lot of detail as I wasn't very sure due to it being the beginning of the year/course.

I think that the knowledge/skills I need to improve on is knowledge on the previous knowledge from Gcses which I wasn't there to learn but would be useful for my learning and help me get a deeper understanding of the current topics. A skill id like to  improve is my editing as I'm not able to use the premiere pro software yet and would like to understand it to improve my work.