Questions | What went well? | What could be improved? | What I am going to do to make the improvements |
1) 3/8 | Mentioning of Santa, buildings, Manchester and Christmas as a whole | Being more specific, mention that it provides anchorage through the tag-line (“when it comes to Christmas, there’s no place like…Manchester”). Stating of Christmas then sharpens up the snow-covered iconic buildings adds relevance and familiar Christmas aesthetic. | Using three sets of signs, signs that constitute the Father Christmas, signs that combine as words providing anchorage, talk about semiotic vocabulary. |
2) 6/12 | Mention of conscious reproach to Thatcher’s Britain. Brief mention of post-industrial collapse of the economy everywhere else drew up lines of opposition across the 1980s. | Know a broader economical and political context in terms of the Close Study Products. | Know more about processes through which meanings are established through intertextuality. |
3) 7/9 | Mentioning Male Gaze. Objectification of Women. | Story of patriarchy and colonialism but not a serious one: it has never been other than (partly) ironic. | Talk about the obvious sexism of the ad is only partly historical, does engage in conversation between context of its production (1967) and of current reception (2020). |
4) 8/20 | Talking about Sub-genre/ summarising that and relating it to the music video. | the associations of the song and images with Hip Hop and Rap in my writing about the music video. | Could mention the protest element which has reference to the sixties/ also through Maya Angelou (“the caged bird sings for freedom”) to Billie Holiday (“southern trees we hung from”) |
5.1) 2/3 | Got Bricolage and Pastiche correct | Knowledge. | Revise what Implosion means, fits into context. |
5.2) 2/3 | Got 2/3 marks for the question. | Expand more/ give a more detailed response in the definition. | Go over the definition and memorise it more effectively. |
6) 8/9 | Explained what the newspaper is, what it discusses and historical, social and cultural contexts. | Briefly mentioned declining print sales for all newspapers | Mention their not-for-profit public funding, to media industries and their products |
7) 16/20 | impact of new technology cultural industries-diversity | improve writing about media organisations maintain, including through marketing | research context about it. understadning the framework around the media product. |