Blog Feedback and Learner Response - September/October

In this post, 

I will be looking at the feedback given to me by Mr Halsey for the time I have been doing A Level Media. 

WWW: An impressive, comprehensive blog that contains some very good points. Good detail to your film poster analysis and great choice of clips/stills later on. Your sound presentation was also very good.
EBI: Paragraphing is something to look at - you need to write in real depth and detail at A Level and using a separate paragraph for each aspect of a media text you analyse will help you write in that level of detail. You also need to get into the habit of highlighting your use of media language in every post. Finally, you need to work on your media consumption, particularly news. You can use Twitter to access it but you absolutely need an understanding of the media world (including news/politics/journalism) if you want to achieve in A Level Media. 

LR: Reflect on your first month of AS Media. What 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?

My Learner Response:

So far, I think my strongest piece of work is the 8 Film Poster analysis, this is because I gave a good analysis of each poster. I gave good details in my explanation, which reflects onto my 'WWW' as Mr Halsey also thinks my Film Poster analysis was well detailed. I think I could improve on particular tasks, making them more analytic and detailed, for example in my 'Advert Analysis 3', I could expand it more by including more detail and reasons why the advert is effecting in persuading people to possible try out that particular product. If I paragraphed my answers more, I could fit in more detail, instead of just fitting in main points with little elaboration. 

In this month of Media so far, I have more knowledge on media terminology and the institutions which exist within the industry. It is important to have an idea to how the media is run and the influence which exists within it. 

In my work, I should start highlighting keywords more often to show that I can use terminology in the right context and in order for Mr Halsey/Bush to know that I have a good understand of the subject.