MIGRAIN assessment 1 - learner response

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

WWW: This is an excellent first media a level assessment-lots of relevant analysis and meanings established

EBI: Take a look at the anticipated content for (Q3 to consider other genre ideas/theories to reference). Also just consider using specific media terminology eg (Q1. narrative codes.)


2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment.

  • 1. Todorov disequilibrium theory and props character types
  • 2.Binary opposition and British working class culture
  • 3.economic sense producers have

3) Read this exemplar response from a previous Year 12 (an A grade) - note this was a slightly different paper in terms of the question wording and also had an additional question 4 (we've updated it to better reflect recent exams). Identify at least one potential point for questions 1-3 from this student's paper that you could have mentioned in your assessment. 
  • Media terminology (tagline/central image)
  • Binary opposition with light and dark
  • Theory from Abercrombie

4) Did you get any media terminology or theory wrong in the assessment? Make a note of it here for future revision, including theories/terminology that you could have used but didn't.

5) Identify your weakest question and write three bullet points that would improve on your original response. Use the mark scheme and exemplar paper to identify these points - particularly focusing on the anticipated content and the top level descriptors.

my weakest question was question 2. I could have focused more on British culture and dominated meanings. I could have also mentioned Ferdinand de Saussure as his theory mentions meanings can be culturally determined and are polysemic.




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