Blog feedback and learner response

WWW: You’ve made an excellent start to Media on the coursework side – well done! Your blog is fully up to date and your mise-en-scene recreation was hugely ambitious and enjoyable. You’ve also picked out some interesting stills and scenes for your analytical task too.

EBI: One key priority is to work on the level of depth and detail in your analytical tasks. For both the film poster analysis and mise-en-scene tasks you make some good points and pick out relevant factors but ideally we want to offer a lot more detail, exploring a range of meanings or perspectives. This will help us target those top grades as 70% of the A Level is exam-based to go alongside the practical work.

LR: Create a blogpost on your Media 2 Coursework blog called ‘Blog feedback and learner response’, copy this feedback in and then complete the following learner response.

Reflect on your first month of Film & TV Language. What aspect of Film & TV language have you most enjoyed studying? What is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop before we start coursework at the end of Year 12


I really enjoyed studying the mise-en-scene and mise-en-scene recreation task as I got the freedom to recreate a scene that I liked. I think my stronger pieces of work will be the practical tasks such as video editing as I enjoy it and I think I could maybe be decent at editing. I think that my weakest parts may be the analysis bit as is with Mr Bush's side as well as I don't know exactly how to put my words which I think limits my analysis of things.


I think I must work on my analysis skill as they are the main part of media and probably go over the content so that I get a better understanding if necessary.

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