Blog feedback and learner response

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WWW: Tara, a good start to the Media Studies course as evidenced by your recent blog work. Your first 10 questions and media consumption audit highlight your high expectations of yourself and how reflective you are e.g. explaining the need to engage with newspapers and radio


Next steps:

  1. Ensure you are meeting deadlines - I know you have completed the blog work now but ensure all the relevant blog work is posted on time

  2. If you want to achieve an A grade then you need to attempt the A/A* blog extension work e.g. narrative 


Learner response: Correct the above and then answer the questions below: completed


Reflect on your work in A Level Media so far:

What is your strongest piece of work? - MIGRAIN Structuralism I believed was my strongest piece of work so far, this is because I have used many key terms such as binary oppositions, narrative, protagonist and antagonists e.g


What is your weakest? - I believe that Audience Classification, this is because I didn't firstly understand the blog task which lead me to making any mistakes, which are now fixed in my blog

What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course? - I think developing photographic memory so that I can memorise more media terms, additionally, making revision time for media, as i have considered it a simple/ filler subjects compared to my others

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