Assessment 1: 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).

1) Focus more on narrative codes and how they influence the structure and meaning of the media text

2) Response should also consider the social and cultural contexts of the media text.

3) Incorporate relevant media theory into your response

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 suggested by gun; character eyeline looking off-screen suggests

danger or threat; tagline references ‘survival’; no hint of new equilibrium.

2) Both products hint at the role society can play in shaping people’s lives which reflects a key

theme of British media and culture. 

3) Genre is important for audiences: expectations of narrative, character, plot, style and content;

selection and rejection of texts – audience pleasures/gratifications; allows comparison and

discussion of media products; recognise developments and evolution in genres.

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. 

1) Use and write more on the narrative codes ( link back to the question)

2) Talk about both media using comparative sentences

3) Include media theories that link to the question


4) 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.

Using Barthes’ narrative theory: Action codes and  Enigma Codes

Consider the social and cultural context in which the media text is produced.

 Go beyond just summarizing the plot and delve into the specific narrative devices