Year 13 Baseline assessment: 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-Ramla, a very strong effort for this assessment-well done! Your Q3 essay on Magazines was a joy to read-very critical and engaging-more examples from the CSP's to warrant top marks.
WWW-Ramla, a very strong effort for this assessment-well done! Your Q3 essay on Magazines was a joy to read-very critical and engaging-more examples from the CSP's to warrant top marks.
EBI-Focus of using your extra time more effectively-you would have gained further marks had you had time to answer Q1.
31/40-A
2) Focusing on the BBC Newsbeat question, write three ways it helps to fulfil the BBC's mission statement that you didn't include in your original assessment answer. Use the mark scheme for ideas.
2) Focusing on the BBC Newsbeat question, write three ways it helps to fulfil the BBC's mission statement that you didn't include in your original assessment answer. Use the mark scheme for ideas.
Newsbeat informs audiences through a breakdown of developing stories, educates via daily bulletins in the start of the podcast, entertains via extensive soft news reports such as sports, music and film.
3) Question two asked you how useful media effects theories are in understanding the audience response to War of the Worlds. Complete the following:
4) Write a full essay plan for the 25-mark Magazines question. The mark scheme contains plenty of ideas you can use here. Your plan should include notes/bullet points addressing the following:
5) Finally, identify three key skills/topics you want to work on in A Level Media this year before the final exams in the summer.
3) Question two asked you how useful media effects theories are in understanding the audience response to War of the Worlds. Complete the following:
- Gerbner's Cultivation theory: useful or not useful? Why?
- Frankfurt School's Hypodermic Needle model: useful or not useful? Why?
- Stuart Hall's Reception theory: useful or not useful? Why?
Cultivation theory is useful in understanding how radio conventions made the panic wore widespread and believably reasonable, Hypodermic Needle theory is widely discredited as overly simplistic but was supported by reported audience panic, Reception theory is useful in analysing audience reaction more critically as well as the range of reactions.
- Introduction: one sentence answering the original question and laying out your argument clearly.
- Paragraph 1 content/ideas:
- Paragraph 2 content/ideas:
- Paragraph 3 content/ideas:
- Paragraph 4 content/ideas:
- Conclusion: sum up your argument a final time in one sentence
Introduction:Both magazines have reached target audiences but the target audience is not in line with mission statements as a result of the media landscape.
Paragraph 1: GQ has run successfully by reaching its target audience, readership of 200k, GQ Heroes Summit, Gauntlett theory of masculinity and Will Welch.
Paragraph 2: GQ has limitations prevalent in traditional media, Hesmondhalgh risk effects and failing revenue, lack of digital convergence and class consciousness.
Paragraph 3: Gentlewomen is culturally significant with active Club as proof, including Scarlet Johansson and Beyonce, editorial directors aims contrast Shirky with digital convergence.
Paragraph 4: Gentlewomen fails to reach all women, bell hooks and Mosco intersectionality and diversity over multiplicity, vegan handbag and Ramla Ali, noninclusive Club and lack of reach outside the Western world.
Conclusion: GQ is successful at reaching target audiences but is failing in contemporary media landscapes as a result and Gentlewomen is successful at reaching target audiences and digital convergence yet fails to garner authenicity.
-I want to do practice question and essay plans more.
-I want to focus on CSP's in real detail.
-I want to put effort into my coursework and editing skills.
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