Blog feedback and Learner Response

WWW: A fantastic start to GCSE Media Studies – you are completely up-to-date on your blog tasks and you have shown originality and flair in your responses. I really think the Van Gogh style is visually appealing. You are very specific with your feature analysis for each task; your advert analysis for Denotation and Connotation is well chosen.

EBI: The main thing to work on is the depth and detail of your written work on the blog using more media terminology – for example such as the Mise-en-scene and camerawork blog tasks. It is fantastic that you are ahead compared to the others in the class, but that extra bit of detail will give you that edge and potentially higher grade.

Reflect on your first month of Media. What do you feel 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?

I think my strongest piece of work so far is the Stranger Things analysis where we used Mise-en-scene to analyse things like costume or lighting. My weakest might be my Parrot task, not only was I a little late to upload it to Blogger, but i struggled to work out how Adobe worked. Over the rest of the course, I think I need to keep a eye on how i use software and resources such as Adobe, because, especially when we start coursework, well be using it more and more to create our own advertisements, short films, ect.