learner response

Savannah

Post this in a new blogpost on your Media blog called ‘Blog feedback and Learner Response’ then complete the LR tasks/questions below.

WWW: This is a strangely mixed picture – you’ve got two really excellent pieces of work but you’re also missing bits. Your introductory questions are very good, you’ve clearly engaged with the task and the aspects of Media you will be studying. Similarly, the Purge film poster analysis using the key concepts of Media Studies is really impressive – detailed and insightful, particularly in terms of what the different aspects are communicating to the audience. More like this, please!

EBI: You need to ensure all missing work is on your Media blog urgently – and this is the second time I’ve had to pick you up on it. It’s common to have blog issues in the first couple of weeks but if you don’t completely work in Media you will underachieve – which would be a great shame based on the potential you’ve shown already. The work you need to post: Denotation and connotation – advert analysis of your own choice.

Secondly, you need to make sure all your media work goes into the depth of your film poster analysis. Your WaterAid analysis just doesn’t reach that level and this is such a crucial aspect of Media Studies. It’s vital you are writing in depth and detail – it is the extended paragraphs of analysis that will take you up towards the higher grades in Media.

LR: Complete and post the missing work urgently. Then, reflect on your first month of Media. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? How can you improve the depth and detail of your media analysis?

Response; I believe that my strongest work that I've done is my analysis on the purge because I think that I managed to fully analyse the film poster and I explained what the view would infer from seeing different aspects of it. My weakest piece of work was probably the water aid analysis because I found it hard to describe the effect of certain things. The skills that I need to learn is how to analyse more difficult media texts and pictures