November blog feedback and learner response

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WWW: Jaspreet, an impressive start considering all deadlines for blog work have been met. I enjoyed reading your first blog task where you reflected on why you did not receive a grade 9 for GCSE Media - let’s really try and get you that A* that you are trying to achieve. 


Next steps: 

  1. Ensure you complete any extension A/A* blog tasks e.g. narrative to get closer to your intended target grade

  2. Check your formatting with certain blog tasks e.g. first blog task


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? 

Reading an image- media codes because I think one of my strengths in media is analysing images and all the key aspects as well as media terms and theories portrayed within a frame.

What is your weakest? 

Maybe structuralism just because it is a new theory and one I need to revise as it is least known to me and I think it's the hardest to understand out of them all, especially since we didn't learn it for media GCSE.

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

I need to learn about analysis of texts and the reasoning behind certain decisions made by industry leaders because I want to go into marketing and the business side of things as well as a bit of creative skills that would be useful in that field.

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