Baseline assessment learner response

1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).

29/40 B

WWW: Solid attempt here, Matas. Lots of specific examples from both magazine CSP's. Think your focus on the Q is clear.

EBI: Check mark scheme for other media effects theories and their relation to WOTW. Also, need a bit more specific detail on industries for Q3

2) Focusing on the BBC Newsbeat question, write three ways it helps to fulfil the BBC's mission statement that you didn't include in your original assessment answer. Use the mark scheme for ideas.

Inform - Election news coverage

Educate - Political insight to listeners teaching them about the government

Entertain - Music in the background, sports coverage

3) Question two asked you how useful media effects theories are in understanding the audience response to War of the Worlds. Complete the following:

Gerbner's Cultivation theory: useful or not useful? Why?

-Useful, shows us that it could've been due to the large consumption/ high frequency viewers will take the media message and panic believing that it is real

Frankfurt School's Hypodermic Needle model: useful or not useful? Why?

-Not useful as it has been discredited and is to reductionist believing all viewers are passive as seen by how the panic was exaggerated by the newspaper media

Stuart Hall's Reception theory: useful or not useful? Why?

-Useful as it allows us to see how the audiences could have taken in exactly the type of feeling and meaning that the producer was trying to invoke

4) Write a full essay plan for the 25-mark Magazines question. The mark scheme contains plenty of ideas you can use here. Your plan should include notes/bullet points addressing the following:

Introduction: one sentence answering the original question and laying out your argument clearly.

-GQ and gentlewoman clearly attract their target audiences through them keeping up with technology, representations and the magazines contents itself.

Paragraph 1 content/ideas: Technology - GW website

Paragraph 2 content/ideas: Representations - Ramala Ali

Paragraph 3 content/ideas: Contents of the magazine - BRidgerton + Interviews or isabella tree

Conclusion: sum up your argument a final time in one sentence

-To conclude Gentlewoman and GQ do attract their target audiences despite the impact of digital media due to keeping up with tech, representations and the contents of its magazines. therefore they target their target audiences

5) Finally, identify three key skills/topics you want to work on in A Level Media this year before the final exams in the summer.

• Arguing both sides
• more detailed examples of industry from CSP's
• Exploring what the question wants better