Magazine cover key conventions- Vogue

Blog feedback learner response

WWW: This is a brilliant start to Media – your blog is absolutely superb! The whole look and feel of the blog suggests to me a natural Media student; you clearly care about design and attention to detail – both absolutely crucial aspects to success in this subject. Your fruit bowls are truly stunning and the quality of analysis to your LIAR Interstellar film poster work is brilliant. The fact you’re already picking out key media terminology in bold is so good to see (something we ask A Level students to do – you’re getting ahead of yourself!)

EBI: Your written analysis is already good and shows an impressive understanding of the key concepts. However, we do need to work on the depth of our analysis if we want to aim for the top grades: over time you’ll need to be writing in much more detailed paragraphs that offer the depth required for A* (this will be particularly important in the Assignment 2 essay after Christmas). Writing high-level analysis means exploring the different possible interpretations that audiences may take from a media product such as a film poster. Your Minority Report analysis is a good example of what I’m getting at: you’ve clearly picked out some important aspects but some of it is more description than impact on audience.

LR: Reflect on your first month of Media. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?

Learner response:

I think my first month of media has been going really well and I've been really enjoying it. Personally, I think my strongest piece of work is my fruit bowls because I really like how they turned out and I enjoyed photo-shopping them. However I think that my minority report analysis could be improved because I need to write in more detail and focus on the impact on the audience and how the specific camera shot is able to achieve this effect. I think that I need to develop writing analysis in more depth and with creative ideas in order to achieve a higher mark.