Exam media blog

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 very impressive first year 12 media assessment. Question 2 and 3 are very focused and clearly respond to the questions and you are referencing relevant media theories  to support your responses. EBI-Ensure you consider other narrative codes for question 1, e.g. Propp & Todorov's theories(use mark scheme to make flash cards. Mark-21/29 Grade-B 2)  Read  the mark scheme carefully (this will be posted on your  Google Classroom . Identify at least  one  potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. Q1- Q2- Q3- 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  ...

Theory questions and your opinion 1) Social learning theory has been criticised for simplifying the causes of violence in society. Do you think the media is responsible for anti-social behaviour and violence? I believe media can encourage anti-social and violent behaviour but isn't the root of it, the theory is simple and reductionist.Many different factors influence that type of behaviour. 2) How is social learning theory relevant in the digital age? Are young people now learning behaviour from social media and the internet? Give examples. Social learning theory is relevant as behaviour is learnt through observation and imitation, in the digital age children absorb information and attitudes from a much wider variety of people with a high chance of a large percentage of that behaviour not being suitable for the youth but they imitate it and hail role models from the internet that they may identify with and aspire to be like that could encourage irresponsible and dangerous behaviour...

  WWW: Well done on an impressive start to the Media Studies course - your blog symbolises what a brilliant start you’ve made - lots of detail in all you blogs and you are even attempting to complete the A/A* extension tasks. This will provide you the opportunity to achieve the top grade you mentioned in your first blog task. Next steps:  Use your blog work to begin thinking about how you can revise from them e.g. making flashcards or printing out your blog work and keeping these in your folder to help with recalling content and theory for upcoming assessments Learner response: Correct the above and then answer the questions below: Reflect on your work in A Level Media so far: What is your strongest piece of work?  The genre blog task as it's my most in depth blog task that involved me integrating personal interests in the blog and allowed me to develop a strong understanding of genre. What is your weakest?  Reading an image or structuralist blog as I didn't have a ...

  Audience theory 1: blog tasks Hypodermic needle model 1) Read this  Mail Online article about the effects of videogames . How does this article link to the hypodermic needle model? The article discusses an experiment in which 70 university students were tested for levels of long term aggression over a three day period, the students were split into two groups that played violent and non-violent games such as COD and Dirt 2, a racing game. After playing each game, students were given the beginning of a story and asked to list 20 things their character does, and there was a stark difference in the violence actions listed from students that played violence vs non-violent games. The hypodermic needle model suggested that media injects information into the audience and can have harmful effects, this links to the study as due to the games the students had come to view the world as a hostile and violent place and acted as such.  2) How does coverage of the Talk Talk hacking cas...