LR tasks for teacher

WWW: The work on your blog is solid and you’re pretty much up-to-date. There’s been a lot of work already so it is important to be keeping up with it. For the mise-en-scene video analysis, although the writing needs work the choice of clip is interesting – being aware of texts such as the Grand Tour (and all the Clarkson history that is important in British TV currently) will serve you well in Media.

EBI: There are a few things we need to work on straight away. Firstly, although you’ve got the vast majority of work on there you do need to catch up with a couple of things: firstly, there is no film noir research linked to the lighting task and secondly although you’ve typed up your sound video feedback you haven’t completed the LR – judging your video against those you felt were the top three in the class. Your first task is to go back and post what’s missing.

My main concern currently is your written English – it is nowhere near A Level standard. Your spelling is poor – you simply cannot study A Level Media and not spell ‘analysis’ correctly. Similarly, you rarely use capital letters which is unacceptable at this level – your title for A Clockwork Orange is both incorrect and lacking capital letters. Your grammar is also poor – far too many sentences that simply do not make sense. A Level study demands a level of literacy that your blog isn’t currently demonstrating – it’s absolutely crucial that you address this urgently. One area that will certainly help in this regard is reading high-quality journalism regularly. If you regularly read extended news stories from a respected news organisation such as the Guardian then you will find the accuracy of your own writing will start to improve.

In terms of specific Media feedback, you will need significantly more depth to your analysis in order to reach the higher grades in AS Media. Take the mise-en-scene clip analysis: you use hardly any key terminology of mise-en-scene (CLAMPS) in this writing. Take one of your sentences: “When watching the whole trailer, you Can tell that it is a fast pest video.” Firstly, the written English is poor (as outlined above). But from a Media perspective this refers to the editing – nothing to do with mise-en-scene at all. If you make this mistake in an exam you will pick up zero marks – and it all comes down to reading the question and focusing on what you’ve been asked to do. 

LR: Firstly, make sure you catch up with the missing work by the end of this week. Then, for your LR, reflect on your first month of Film Language. 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?

The first month of A Level media has been interesting as we learnt about what we need to put key concepts in our exam and coursework. In my opinion, my strengths are knowing why curtain brands do curtain thing to build their brand image to encourage people to buy there product. I learnt why any form of advertising or media sources have a reason behind what they are doing. My weakness is remembering specific thing to write in my exams to get better marks. I will have to develop my knowledge on different media terms such as "CLAMPS" to get good marks on my coursework and exams.