Monday 10th March
| Questions | What went well? | What could be improved? | What I am going to do to make the improvements |
| 1. 7/8 | Good analysis of product and use of the theoretical framework. | Consistent highly appropriate use of subject specific terminology throughout. | |
| 2. 11/12 | Good understanding of the theoretical framework and understanding of contexts of media and their influence on media products. | More detailed information | |
| 3. 6/9 | Good understanding of the theoretical framework | Analyse media product more, understanding of media language | |
| 4. 15/20 | Good application of theory and understanding of music video. | Understanding of genre theory What does ‘genre as a cultural category’ actually mean? | |
| 5. 6/6 | Knowledge of theoretical framework, good example used | ||
| 6. 6/9 | Good understanding of the influences of social and cultural contexts on media products | Use of terminology and expand knowledge of theorists | |
| 7. 6/20 | Good understanding of the theoretical framework and use of terminology. | Knowledge of Blinded by the light and diversity and production The significance of patterns of ownership and control, including conglomerate ownership, vertical integration and diversification The significance of economic factors, including commercial and not-for-profit public funding, to media industries and their products How media organisations maintain, including through marketing, varieties of audiences nationally and globally The regulatory framework of contemporary media in the UK the impact of ‘new’ digital technologies on media regulation, including the role of individual producers How processes of production, distribution and circulation shape media products. |
Tuesday 11th March
Achieved target grade- B
57/84
To achieve the next grade boundary of an A, I would need to gain 4 more marks.
To secure a B overall, I will need to get 45 marks on paper 2.
To secure my target grade, I will need to improve in the 20 mark questions as I achieved 15/20 and 6/20.
Wednesday 12th March
Task 1:
| Language | Representation | Audience | Industries |
| Roland Barthes- Semiotics | David Gauntlett- Identity | George Gerbner- Cultivation theory | David Hesmondhalgh- Cultural industries |
| Levi Strauss- Structuralism | Judith Butler- Gender performativity | Clay Shirky- End of audience | Curran & Seaton- Power & media |
| Todorov- Narratology | Bell Hooks- Intersectionality | Henry Jenkins- Fandom | Livingstone & Lunt- Regulation |
| Steve Neale- Genre | Paul Gilroy- Ethnicity & post-colonial | Albert Bandura- Media effects | |
| Jean Baudrillard- Post- modernism | Van Zoonen- Feminist theory | Stuart Hall- Reception theory | |
| Stuart Hall- Representation theory |