MIGRAIN: October assessment - 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).

Grade - C ( 1 mark from B)

Feedback:

WWW: This is a very solid assessment: your knowledge and experience studying media text really comes through. Q2+Q4 are particularly good with detailed and insightful points made.

EBI: You are just off a B grade so you're not too far away from where we want to be but you're not in the top level yet. Written English is a factor: Too many errors for A Level!

- You also lack theory and question focus in Q1 and Q3 (particularly genre). There is clearly an area to revise.

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)


3) Read this exemplar response from a previous Year 12 (a strong B grade). Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment. 



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 did not go through genre as much as i should have, I also forgot to link the theory back to the question for question 3.

5) Identify your strongest question. Why did you do better on this question?

Q4 was my best question as I was quite indepth with my thinking and tried to provide examples and evidence with my points for the question. I do still need to work on making sure I use every theory and also need to improve my written English. 

6) Identify your weakest question. Why did you score lower on this particular task?

My weakest question was question 1, I believe that the reason why it was weak is quite general, I needed to add more theory, sort out my written english, and also structuring the question better would have most likely gotten me an extra mark or two.


7) Re-write your weakest answer in full. Use the mark scheme to identify anticipated content you can add to your response and make sure your typed re-draft is a top-level answer.

Q1: 
The reveal magazine cover uses narrative theory in multiple ways, the theory of equilibrium (todorov) is used, but not in a conventional way: while most texts have an equilibrium before a disequilibrium, this text starts off with a disequilibrium. The disequilibrium in this text is the self-consciousness of Reveals readers along with the reader's lack of knowledge of what's going on with their favorite celebrities. The age demographic for Reveal magazine is most likely middle-aged mothers, the magazine has coverlines that imply within the magazine there are diets that can change your life, this is a direct usage of insecurities that the magazine's readers have about their weight, an issue common with middle-aged women, specifically mothers. This is an instance of insecurities being used to attract readers. The new equilibrium could be the advice of information that the magazine gives to the readers and how it affects the reader. Vladimir propps character theory can also be used to an extent, the heroes would be the figures within the text, the readers would be the victim, the magazine company would be the donor/helper as it provides a medium that connects the figures with the audience.



8) Email your re-written answer (7) to the next person below you on the blog list. Ask them to provide a WWW/EBI response before next Friday and then include this underneath your answer on your blog.