MIGRAIN assessment 1 - 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: Khaterah, a successful first A-level Media assessment, Lots of detail for Q1 unseen analysis-just need some more specific narrative theories for top marks. Your Q3 response was superb on genre.

EBI: Your Q2 did not fully respond to the Q about social culture context. There was too much analysis but not considering context.

20/29    Grade: B

2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment.

Q1) Theories such as Todorov's Character theory
Q2) Both products hint as how they can culturally and socially change people lives
Q3) Abercrombie's theory on how producers set out to exploit genre

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 potential point for questions 1-3 from this student's paper that you could have mentioned in your assessment. 

Q1)Todorov's theory of equilibrium
Q2) How the Nike advert reflects character and dominant British ideology
Q3) Genres importance for audience

4) Did you get any media terminology or theory wrong in the assessment? Make a note of it here for future revision, including theories/terminology that you could have used but didn't.

I got the theory of Abercrombie wrong where television producers set out to exploit genre conventions. Genres permit the creation and maintenance of a loyal audience.

5) Identify your weakest question and write three bullet points that would improve on your original response. Use the mark scheme and exemplar paper to identify these points - particularly focusing on the anticipated content and the top level descriptors.

My weakness was Q3 where I did not mention any social or cultural context of British values and ideologies. I also did not compare it contextually where people are used and products are mentioned.

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