Blog feedback and learner response

 

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: 

  1. 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 strong grasp of the topics when completing the blog, though I've gone back and revised them thoroughly.

What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?

Being able to recall all relevant information when analysing media texts such as MIGRAIN and theories involved off by heart.

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