Blog feedback and learner response -

Blog feedback: Kishan

WWW: An outstanding blog - continuing your exceptional work in GCSE Media. Your sound presentation collages offered spectacular design (although perhaps could have been slightly more starkly different) and your cinematography clips show a real interest and passion for film. Great choice of Silver Linings Playbook for sound analysis too!

EBI: Don't forget to highlight key media language - you're clearly using it but it's still a valuable habit to get into early on in the course. For the cinematography comparison (Citizen Kane and Three Colours: White) you produce excellent analysis of the two clips but don't discuss the differences between them. What changed in cinematography terms between the 1950s and 1990s?

LR: Reflect on your first month of AS Media. What 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?

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The first month of AS Media has been highly enjoyable considering the increased exposure to film culture as well as the current media and its history. My strongest blog-post would be: '12C Sound presentations and homework', not only because of the quality of the collages but because of the analysis of sound in the Silver Linings Playbook scene which was somewhat interesting. My weakest work would have to be 'Film Poster Analysis - 12/09/2014',  because I found that due to the excessive number of example film posters to analyse I repeated myself a lot because the questions were fairly closed. Specific skills I would need to develop on would be influenced by my developing knowledge of topics, and remembering to include every aspect of a media text which has potential for analysis - this shall progress with time.