Blog Learner Response

 

Full Name	Blog URL received	First blog task - 10 Questions	Media Consumption Audit	Semiotics blog tasks	MIGRAIN Reading an Image	Reception theory	Folder check	Blog feedback and learner response
GALIK, Olivia

WWW: Your blog is 100% up-to-date which is brilliant to see – you’ve made a great start in Media and I’m delighted to read you want to continue the subject from GCSE. I’m sorry Mr Pall isn’t teaching you but you’ll have to put up with me and Mr Bush! As we’ve discussed in class, it’s brilliant you have such a clear ambition to join the RAF and I absolutely agree on aiming for a minimum of that B+ grade. It’s also interesting to read about your GCSE coursework experience – I think you’ll find A Level very different as we have much more time and will be able to develop our ideas considerably. It’s also video and print so the fact you’ve effectively had an introduction to both via GCSE is a good sign.

 

EBI: A couple of answers to pick up on. Firstly, for the Heineken advert you’ve analysed for Reading and Image and Reception theory you’ve missed a key detail: it’s for 0.0% non-alcoholic beer! This is actually a great lesson for the first exam question on both A Level Media exams because they are both on unseen texts. It’s vital to study texts closely and make sure we don’t miss the meaning. Secondly, I think it would be worth looking back at the criticism for Reception theory. You have picked out something from the factsheet but I don’t think it quite answers the question. The main criticism for Reception theory comes from something we’ll study more later in the course – dominant ideologies and hegemony. This means that the media reinforces certain ideas so much that audiences can’t actually completely reject a meaning because society determines what is normal or mainstream. We’ll come back to this later in the course!

Reflect on your work in A Level Media so far. What is your strongest piece of work? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?

-Strongest piece of work: Reception theory

-Weakest piece of work: Semiotics

-I need to memorise key words for exams as I forgot a lot at GCSE and I need to do homework sooner